Introduction to Fraud and Fraud Prevention
£20.00 + VAT
Description
It’s estimated that fraud costs UK businesses over £190 billion each year, with over 70 per cent of fraud occurring in the private sector and over 20 per cent in the public sector.
Ensuring your organisation understands the different types of fraud and how to prevent it is vital, and will help you protect your business and employees from the serious consequences fraud can result in. Highfield’s Introduction to Fraud and Fraud Prevention Short Course is designed to help your organisation understand the nature of fraud, how you may be vulnerable and its effects. It will give you the knowledge needed to reduce risk within your organisation and implement anti-fraud policies.
The course forms part of a suite of short e-learning courses that focus on different types of economic crime, and is ideal for employees in busy workplaces who need to understand the issues around fraud.
Any employee who may be in a position where fraud is a potential risk, as well as their managers.
It can also be used as a stand-alone module by anyone interested in finding out more about economic crime and the legislative requirements placed on individuals and businesses to combat it.
Following completion of the course, you will be sent a downloadable CPD certificate.
The definition of fraud
Different types of fraud
Legislation relevant to fraud
The consequences of fraud for individuals, businesses and organisations
The factors that explain how and why fraud occurs
Circumstances that increase the likelihood of fraud occurring
Fraud risk management
Creating a zero-tolerance culture
Anti-fraud policies
Preventing and detecting fraud
Fraud investigation
Following completion of the course, you will be sent a downloadable CPD certificate.
