Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program

Fraud Risk Assessment

Today’s professional standards are requiring corporations, CPA firms, and internal auditors to provide Sarbanes-Oxley and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) regulators with assurance and opin-ions regarding fraud risk management and to incorporate fraud detection into their audit plan. But many auditors today are, unfortunately, ill-equipped on how to prevent or handle fraud.

Providing a comprehensive framework for building an effective fraud prevention model, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program presents a readable overview for developing fraud audit procedures and building controls that successfully minimize fraud.

An invaluable reference for auditors, fraud examiners, investigators,?CFOs, controllers, corporate attorneys, and accountants, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program helps business leaders respond to the risk of asset misappropriation fraud and uncover fraud in core business systems. Renowned financial investigator Leonard Vona shows readers how to build a fraud model using a fraud risk assessment strategy that requires consideration of the fraud schemes, fraud concealment strategies, opportunity points, and fraud motivation unique to their organizations.

Including important information on methods of responding to the risk of fraud and data mining for fraud schemes, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program also provides audit procedures and thoroughly examines topics including:

• Fraud theory

• Fraud audit

• Fraud penetration risk assessment

• Fraud in expenditure

• Contract fraud

• Bribery

• Travel expense

• Payroll fraud

• Revenue fraud

• Fraud control theory

• Fraud investigation for the auditor

Locating fraud in today’s business system is not an option but a requirement. Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program helps professionals to focus on using assertive fraud risk assessment to build audit programs that respond to the risk of asset misappropria-tion fraud.

Praise for

Fraud Risk Assessment

Building a Fraud Audit Program

“This book is a must for every Chief Audit Executive and every internal audit library. The book details how CAEs can incorporate fraud risk assessments into their strategic plans as well as explaining to the staff levels how to audit for fraud in specific high exposure areas such as travel, contracts, and expenditures. It is easy to follow and provides an excellent blueprint.”
Joel Kramer, CPA, Managing Director, Internal Audit Division
MIS Training Institute

“Fraud Risk Assessment presents a straightforward discourse on fraud. Mr. Vona’s seamless approach to fraud investigation provides in-house examiners and accounting and legal professionals with critical guidance to develop fraud detection plans and to assess and minimize risk. A thorough review of this book is vital for any professional involved in the prevention, detection or prosecution of fraud.”
Bonnie S. Baker, Attorney, Deily, Mooney & Glastetter, LLP

Billions of dollars a year are lost to business fraud. Is your business next?

Times are changing. At one time, it was not directly an auditor’s responsibility to detect fraud, and even professional standards avoided the word “fraud.” Today, it is accepted that the auditor has an obligation to respond to the risk of fraud. In Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program, author and industry expert Leonard Vona reveals a fraud audit approach that helps you answer the following questions within your own organization:

• Who may be committing fraud within my organization?

• What type of fraud should I be looking for?

• Should fraud be viewed as an inherent risk?

• How might fraud opportunity impact internal controls?

• How might fraud be concealed within our business systems?

• How can we incorporate the fraud theory into our audit approach?

• How should we use fraud auditing to detect fraud?

Anticipate the red flags of fraud before they appear. Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program provides sound advice that auditors and accountants will find invaluable.