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FRAUD Cardo
SCHEMES
THE FRAUDSTER
Cardo is an invoice processor of Walang Katapusan Company. He is
currently in need of funds for his son's college education and his
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resigned and the company had an employee shortage. Because of
FAKE VENDOR system. After weeks of observation, Cardo noticed that Flora, the
employed in the company and his actions are not discovered. He had
enough fund for his son and his wife already recovered. However, he
Disbursement that the payroll account is not regularly reconciled, thus he decided
to create several payroll acounts for ghost employees and set aside
the wages for his own. The activity of Cardo remained unnoticed so
another firm for better experience. With the intent to execute another
Cash Dekada Company. He decided that this will be the last time that he will
SCHEMING
retire and make his own business. He desired to have his own resort and
officer, Cardo decided to keep some of the cash from a customer sale
And to finally achieve his dream business, Cardo decided to raid the
the company is poor and this gave opportunity to people like Cardo to
from register
continuously execute their cash fraud schemes.
But one Monday morning, Alyana, the supervisor, caught Cardo stealing
from the register. He was investigated and his previous fraudulent acts
should be segregated .
Creating AUTHORIZATION
FAKE VENDOR Significant transactions like purchasing supplies should
ACCOUNTS
be authorized and approved by the supervisors. In that
suppliers
ACCOUNTING RECORDS
Maintain adequate audit trail to be used in verification
Disbursement
INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION
Data prepared by an employee would be reviewed or
SUPERVISION
Require supervisory approval for writeoffs and customer
Cash credit
ACCESS CONTROL
Along with segregation of duties, maintaining physical
to theft
PHYSICAL CONTROL
from register