09/12/2021
Frauds [ISA 240]
•Fraud Definition
An intentional act by one or more individuals among management, those charged with governance, employees, or third parties, involving the use of deception to obtain an unjust or illegal advantage.
•Types of Frauds
-Fraudulent Financial Reporting
-Misappropriation of Assets
Two examples of fraudulent financial reporting are accelerating the timing of recording sales revenue to increased reported sales and earnings, and recording expenses as fixed assets to increase earnings.
Misappropriation of asset is a fraud that involves the theft of an entity's asset.
•Why do we need to Mitigate the Frauds?
Fraud can encompass waste and abuse, improper payments, money laundering, terrorist financing, public security and cyber security. In the past, organizations had to take a fragmented approach to fraud prevention, using business rules and rudimentary analytics to look for anomalies to create alerts from separate data sets.
•How to Prevent the Frauds?
-Being alert on your day to day business process
-Use professional Skepticism to identify what could go wrong
- Strong internal control system should be in place
- Engage with the forensic specialist if needed
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