Business is risky—what reasonable return comes without some amount of risk? Of course, the trick is to understand risk and its implications, avoid it where possible, reduce it where feasible, work with it when desirable, and ultimately accept and monitor the remaining risk as a cost of doing business.
Authored by KPMG Forensic senior professionals, At Risk is a newsletter designed to help make sense of recent regulatory, social and economic trends affecting our clients and their external legal counsel.
In this edition the focus is on fraud in the current environment. The articles provide examples, many well known, of fraud and malfeasance. The purpose is not to repeat the stories well and extensively reported in the popular press.
- Recessionary Fraud or a Fraud-Fuelled Recession?
- Unmasking the Canadian Fraudster – KPMG Forensic’s 2009 Fraud Survey
- Financial Misstatements and Economic Black Holes
- Bloodhounds in the Boardroom
- Data Mining: Extracting the Opportunities in the Challenges