Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:
Ident

Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:
Identify the categories of occupational fraud from the ACFE Fraud Tree.
Apply fraud risk assessment concepts.
Overview
In this assignment, you’ll research one of the fraud categories or schemes listed on the ACFE Fraud Tree.Links to an external site.
Find key information, including:
Methods: What does this scheme involve? What methods are used to commit it?
Detection: By what means is the fraud commonly detected? Describe effective methods and tools.
Victim Organizations: How prevalent is fraud? What are the characteristics of the organizations that are victimized by it? Consider size, industry, region, and other factors.
Perpetrators: What are the characteristics of the people who commit the fraud? Consider position, tenure, department, gender, age, and other factors.
Prevention: What are best practices to prevent the fraud?
Summarize what you learn in a Word document of approximately 800 to 1,000 words, not including citations. Review our policies on plagiarismLinks to an external site. and paraphrasing,Links to an external site. and cite your sources using APA format. Use supporting statistics from the Report to the Nations.