You may be surprised to learn it doesn’t take a sophisticated level of complexity and innovation to steal from an organization—even when numerous people have eyes on it and work in it every day. An extensive examination of decades’ worth of fraud cases reveals all thieving can be classified into three main categories. In these categories, classifications of specific schemes exist, and they are all the possible ways your organization can be robbed. The Corporate Fraud Handbook demystifies the nefarious ways criminally minded employees steal in plain sight and often get away with it. Unless auditors, investigators, managers, business owners, and others who need to stop losses know what to look for, their organizations could be suffering significant financial and human damages from crimes ranging from false overtime and petty theft to multilayered investment swindles and bribery. This fully updated Fifth Edition features real cases presented in the Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, prepared by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Based on the broad framework mapped out in the reports, founder and chairman of the ACFE Joseph Wells takes serious practitioners much further in this practical handbook to all the nitty gritty details of illegal schemes. A diligent and meticulous approach to satisfying such regulatory requirements as Sarbanes-Oxley is critical to transparency—but it’s not enough. To develop the right kind of eyes to see the devil in the details, professionals need a comprehensive, convenient reference for what to look for and, most importantly, meaningful steps you can take to stop illegal activities before they start. Keep this resource at your fingertips for its: Psychological enlightenments of why employees become motivated to commit occupational crimes Flowchart illustrations of schemes and their variations, along with insightful observations and conclusions for creating prevention and detection strategies Valuable rules of thumb and techniques for spotting the warning signs of fraud and complying with the latest regulatory updates Corporate Fraud Handbook, Fifth Edition is the definitive guidebook to preventing and detecting fraud in today’s complicated business environment.