ACFE Kicks Off Weeklong Campaign to Promote Fraud Awareness

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, along with supporters like The Boeing Company, Deloitte and Dollar General, has officially kicked off International Fraud Awareness Week. Join the growing list of companies, organizations and individuals who have donated their time and resources to fighting fraud.

Still looking for a way to promote awareness this week? Download these ACFE resources to share with employees, colleagues, clients and the public:

• Fraud Prevention Check-up (PDF)
  How vulnerable is your company to fraud? Find out by using the ACFE's Fraud Prevention Check-Up, a simple yet powerful test of your company's fraud health.
• NEW: Tips for Organizations (PowerPoint)
  This short PowerPoint presentation from the ACFE provides simple steps any organization can take immediately to help prevent and detect fraud.
• NEW: The 2010 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse
  According to research conducted by the ACFE and published in the 2010 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, organizations worldwide lose an estimated 5 percent of annual revenues to fraud.
• Managing the Business Risk of Fraud: A Practical Guide (PDF)
  This guidance paper, developed jointly by the ACFE, IIA and AICPA, provides key principles for proactively establishing an environment to effectively manage an organization’s fraud risks.
• Occupational Fraud: A Study of the Impact of an Economic Recession (PDF)
  Intense financial pressures during the economic crisis have led to an increase of fraud, according to a survey of fraud experts conducted by the ACFE.
• FraudInfo
  Sign up for this free, bi-weekly e-mail newsletter from the ACFE that provides the latest fraud news, fraud events, training and course highlights, fraud-related job postings and more.
• Fraud IQ Test
  Test your knowledge about fraud with this quiz, which includes 20 actual questions from the CFE Exam.

Be sure to visit ACFE Insights tomorrow for more fraud resources!