Current Fraud Trends - Nonprofit and Government Entities

Overview

Nonprofit entities and governmental entities have a high degree of public accountability. This course will examine the most common fraud schemes and provide multiple examples of how to prevent or detect these schemes.

Highlights

• Best practices for fraud prevention and detection
• Common fraud schemes in nonprofit and government entities including cash misappropriation, payroll fraud, vendor fraud, falsified billings, improper use of credit cards or purchase cards, the redirection of cash and non-cash contributions, personal use of assets, the redirection of grant benefits, other grant related fraud, travel and expense reporting fraud

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Accountants who have a need to be aware of current fraud trends impacting nonprofits and governments

Objectives

• Recall real-world frauds occurring in not-for-profit entities and governments
• Describe useful fraud prevention tools
• Explain how real-world frauds were detected

Preparation

None