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a high- level status report, generating a broad idea of an organization’s
performance with respect to fraud prevention. This report will pinpoint
areas for improvement and help set out a blueprint for cost effectively
implementing those improvements on a prioritized basis.
While there are many types of fraud diagnostics tools, one of the sim-
plest is the Association of Certied Fraud Examiners’ (ACFE) Prevention
Checkup, which is available free of charge from the website.
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The ACFE
checkup focuses on the following seven elements:
• Fraud risk oversight: This section of the ACFE checkup asks the
following kinds of que ...