While we auditors are busy designing our audits to catch fraud, we often bypass government corruption because it is so hard to prove. It’s easier for us to uncover the account clerk’s transfers into a personal account or prove that the executive assistant overcharged for travel expenses than it is for us to look at […]
gao’s green book
Fraud Risk Factors a.k.a. the Fraud Triangle
In our last chapter, we discussed the fraud tree – a taxonomy of fraud created by the Certified Fraud Examiners. Now we are going to look at another model created by the Certified Fraud Examiners which is also mentioned in the GAO’s Green Book – the fraud triangle. The GAO’s Green Book calls the three […]