Mary Breslin, CIA, CFE, Founder of Verracy October 22, 2020   Can a system or software be responsible for fraud? Like a voyeur, I sat and watched the system automatically, and without human intervention, conceal fraud. Let me explain. I recently completed a fraud investigation in which the system — hardware and software — provided […]

Mary Breslin, CFE, CIA, president of Empower Audit, shares the lessons she learned from her very first fraud case and the red flags she spotted within the first 10 minutes of a routine audit. About Mary Mary Breslin is the Founder of Verracy and specializes in Internal Audit transformations, Operational and Financial Auditing, Fraud Auditing […]

by: Mary Breslin All organizations face fraud risk. Understanding how to properly identify and assess potential fraud risk helps a business develop and implement an effective fraud program that can reduce the associated potential financial, reputation and organization risks. The ability for an organization to prevent and detect fraud begins with the ability to identify […]

The fraud curve can be treacherous. By applying the principles and practices in this book, along with professional skepticism and a questioning mind, internal auditors will know when to raise the red flag and what to do about it. In Raise the Red Flag, author Lynn Fountain combines principles and theories of fraud prevention and detection […]

Recently, I spoke about fraud at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for their investigators. My day was off to a rocky start, as I accidentally burned a big hole in my pink crepe suit jacket while trying to use the steam function on the hotel iron to rid it of a few wrinkles. Normally I […]