FRAUD PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE: THE NEED FOR A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH BY BELLO SABO Department of Business Administration‚ A.B.U. Zaria ABSTRACT This article addresses some fundamental issues on fraud prevention and control and their implications on socio-economic development of Nigeria using its public sector machinery. Using the records compiled from early study covering 637 reported fraud cases in Nigeria‚ which were committed between 1970-1990 in respect
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READINESS OF GOVERNMENT AUDITORS IN FRAUD DETECTION IN MALAYSIA 1.0 PROBLEM STATEMENT 1.1 Public sector governance requires the controlling and accounting officers to discharge their responsibilities of stewardship of public resources by being open‚ accountable‚ prudent in decision making‚ managing and delivering results. The provision of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 also places a high premium for controlling officers to be personally responsible and accountable for propriety and accountability
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The discussion topics for the I-130 Immigration Benefit Fraud Assessment (IBFA) before the Technical Working Group (TWG) are: 1) the sample size‚ 2) the operational definitional of fraud‚ and 3) the cut-off date for case inclusion. OP&S is dedicated to ensuring USCIS stakeholders and senior leaderships have relevant information in order to develop realistic expectations of the study. The role of the TWG is to discuss and provide consolidated recommendations to USCIS Senior Leadership so that they
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Chapter 1--The Nature of Fraud MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. One way that criminal law differs from civil law is that it: a. | Provides remedies for violations of private rights. | b. | Must yield a unanimous verdict. | c. | Can have a jury of fewer than 12 persons. | d. | Allows for various claims in one action. | ANS: B | Feedback | A | Incorrect. This is a characteristic of civil law; criminal law deals with crimes against the public. | B | Correct. Criminal trials must
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101-C10 Medicaid Fraud in America: Uncovering Wasteful Spending in Healthcare In 2012‚ the State of South Carolina spent $4.8 billion on the Medicaid program. At the end of that fiscal year‚ the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General reported that nationwide only $1.4 billion had been recovered in fraudulent cases. “The US spends more than $2 trillion on healthcare annually. At least 3% of that spending-or $68 billion-is lost to fraud each year. Fraud accounts for 19
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......................................1 Who Committed Fraud?.....................................................................1 - 2 How Was Fraud Committed?...............................................................2 - 4 Why Was Fraud Committed?...............................................................4 - 5 Penalties Of Committing Fraud.............................................................. 6 Ways Of Preventing Fraud........................................................
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scholarlinkresearch.org Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences (JETEMS) 2(5):357-363 (ISSN:2141-7024) Fraud as a Negative Catalyst in the Nigerian Banking Industry Akindele R.I Department of Management and accounting Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile Ife‚ Nigeria ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Fraud in the Nigerian Banking Industry before the recent merger and acquisition and recapitalisation efforts was at alarming rate
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Analysis on Credit Card Fraud Detection Methods 1 1 S. Benson Edwin Raj‚ 2A. Annie Portia Assistant Professor (SG)‚ P.G.‚ 2Scholar Department of CSE Karunya University‚ Coimbatore counter the credit card fraud effectively‚ it is necessary to understand the technologies involved in detecting credit card frauds and to identify various types of credit card frauds [20] [21] [22] . There are multiple algorithms for credit card fraud detection [21] [29]. They are artificial neural-network models which
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What is Welfare Fraud and who’s paying the price? What is Welfare Fraud and who’s paying the price? Welfare fraud is misuse of various welfare programs; the people who suffer the most from this are the ones who should get benefits but can’t because there is no more funds available and the taxpayers who pay for it. Basically fraudsters withhold certain information or provide inaccurate or false information to receive benefits. The three most common types of welfare fraud are purposely providing
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examples of Accounting Frauds. The founder of ZZZZ best was Barry Minkow. He was a very smart young entrepreneur when he started the company. He was involved in credit card forgeries prior to starting his own carpet cleaning business “ZZZZ Best Company”. Minkow began his business with small carpet cleaning jobs and he became a multimillionaire in a very short period of time. Minkow met a person named Tom Padgett at Los Angeles Health club. This was the beginning of Minkow’s big fraud scheme. Padgett was
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