Fraud
Fraud
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When a client starts sending fake invoices to vendors and customers, the instinct is to reset the password and turn on multifactor authentication. That's not enough.
September 7 -
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is partnering with the U.S. Department of Justice in launching a National Fraud Detection Center that will help uncover tax fraud and other forms of fraud.
August 26 -
Finance leaders who haven't yet updated their mental model of what fraud looks like in 2026 are operating with a set of assumptions that no longer holds.
August 25 -
The American Institute of CPAs' Auditing Standards Board adopted new guidance governing the auditor's responsibility for identifying fraud or suspected fraud.
August 20 -
A recent study on romance scams found that bots were able to get people to install a sketchy app 46% of the time versus 18% for humans trying the same thing.
August 3 -
The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an alert about fraud schemes targeting student aid programs administered by the federal government.
July 24 -
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners spotlighted people who have been exposing financial fraud at companies and governments worldwide.
July 21 -
Your accounting firm's clients are counting on you to understand fraud risk in the Age of AI.
July 1 -
Accountants are no longer just educating clients about tax law, but actively dismantling AI-generated fiction before it turns into audit-triggering liability.
July 1 -
AI has become the No. 1 way to fake receipts for expense fraud. Before then, people generally relied on specialized templates from sketchy websites.
June 23 -
Forensic accounting requires significant resources, including the reserves to fight the legal challenges that are likely to follow.
June 3 -
A judge closed the president's case after his personal attorneys withdrew his lawsuit against the IRS for leaking his tax information.
May 28 -
The median fraud loss per case in the ACFE study was $104,000, but the average loss per case was $1,457,000, while 20% had losses of more than $1 million.
May 12 -
Internal auditors are facing a heightened risk of fraud at organizations as schemes change and internal controls weaken over time, according to a new report.
May 11 -
Without automated bank account verification in place, organizations leave themselves wide open to costly, damaging fraud schemes.
March 3 -
Wrong arm of the law; it all comes out in the wash; human nature and other highlights of recent tax cases.
February 26 -
The IRS introduced a new web page where taxpayers can confidentially report suspected tax fraud schemes, scams, evasion or other tax-related illegal activities.
February 26 -
AI-enabled fraud has become so sophisticated more than one-third of senior internal audit leaders aren't even sure whether or not their organizations have been the targets of any attempts.
February 18 -
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has partnered with Grant Thornton to help organizations uncover fraudulent activity and avoid financial losses.
February 12 -
Users can log in to free apps like Google Gemini or ChatGPT and create realistic-looking, fraudulent documents — such as fake receipts or invoices — in seconds.
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