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What Is The Difference Between A Shell Company and Ghost employee?

Nov 25, 2019 7:30:00 AM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing ...

Over the last six months, I have traveled the world talking about fraud data analytics. I want to thank everyone who has participated in the sessions. I also want to thank the hundreds of individuals who have signed up to receive our monthly blog newsletter.

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Fraud Auditing To Bust Ghost Employees

Oct 28, 2019 1:52:10 PM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing ...

One of the most popular topics on this blog has been Ghost Employees. I recently sat down for an interview on how fraud auditing can be used to uncover Ghost Employee schemes that I wanted to share with you.

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Uncovering Pass-Through Schemes Involving Real or Shell Companies

Sep 20, 2019 7:13:41 AM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing ...

At the June 2019 ACFE conference I spoke about Fraud Data Analytics (FDA): How to Locate Complex Vendor Overbilling Fraud Risk Statements. My sessions were sold out, so for those unable to hear my presentation I am writing three blogs that explain three of the four fraud risk statements I covered: Price inflation scheme: hidden entity scheme and now we will cover the pass-through scheme. The fourth fraud risk statement was explained in a blog posted on August 18, 2018.

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Hidden Entity Scheme

Aug 29, 2019 3:25:52 PM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing ...

At the June 2019 ACFE conference I spoke about Fraud Data Analytics (FDA): How to Locate Complex Vendor Overbilling Fraud Risk Statements. My sessions were sold out, so for those unable to hear my presentation I am writing three blogs that explain three of the four fraud risk statements I covered: Price inflation scheme: hidden entity scheme and the pass-through scheme. The fourth fraud risk statement was explained in a blog posted on August 18, 2018.

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Setting up Audits to Locate Complex Vendor Overbilling by Price Inflation

Jul 23, 2019 5:24:49 PM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing ...

At the June 2019 ACFE conference I spoke about Fraud Data Analytics (FDA): How to Locate Complex Vendor Overbilling Fraud Risk Statements. My sessions were sold out, so for those unable to hear my presentation I am writing three blogs in which I will explain three fraud statements I covered:

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Fraud Data Analytics: Designing the Fraud Test for the Plan

Jun 13, 2019 3:05:18 PM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing, ...

In our first blog in a series on fraud data analytics, we identified a ten-step methodology for conducting a fraud data analytics project. In this blog, we will discuss steps nine and ten:

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Fraud Data Analytics: The Process of Selecting Transactions for Fraud Testing

May 21, 2019 8:00:27 AM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Auditing, ...

In our first blog in a series on fraud data analytics, we identified a ten-step methodology for conducting a fraud data analytics project. In this blog, we will discuss steps seven and eight:

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Fraud Data Analytics: Eight Critical Steps to Building Your Search Routines

Apr 18, 2019 8:29:16 AM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Risk Statements, ...

 

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Uncovering Fraud Using Fraud Data Analytics: Part 3 + 4

Mar 26, 2019 4:55:40 PM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Risk Statements, ...

Fraud Analytics: Planning considerations

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Uncovering Fraud Using Fraud Data Analytics: Part 1

Dec 1, 2018 7:45:04 AM / by Leonard W. Vona posted in Fraud Data Analytics, Fraud Risk Statements, ...

This blog is the first in a series of seven to explain how to perform fraud data analytics. It introduces a ten-step approach along with explaining the concept of fraud auditing.

For years, auditors, myself included, would launch a fraud detection project by getting the data and playing with the data. At least that was the expression. We hoped to trip across a fraud scheme.  We had no specific plan, just a simple goal: Find fraud. We did not know what we were looking for, but we were looking. Eventually, we hoped to find something. But, those days are over.

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