When Numbers Don’t Add Up

Foreword: Counter-Fraud Practitioner’s Assessment

Reducing and removing the impact of fraud and corruption is one of the big challenges we face in the world today, alongside, of course, eradicating poverty, promoting world peace, and cleaning up the environment. But unlike many of the other big global challenges, fraud and corruption is one part of human nature we should be easily able to avoid. It should be quite simple to deal with because cheating, stealing, and deception are nothing new…they have been around for centuries. But all the same, despite a tsunami of new rules and regulations in recent years, fraud is constantly on the increase. And what’s more, corruption and fraud are the “dirt in our machinery,” which get in the way of us overcoming ...