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In a business there will always be the risk of fraud. This 10 page paper considers the internal and external risks that are faced and how these need to be balanced with business needs to keep employees and customers happy. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
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and planning also has to take place in a balanced manner. Total protection against internal fraud may result in a low trust environment where employees feel they are being watched
and are treated with suspicion, resulting in lower levels of motivation and falls in productivity as well as increased costs for management. Conversely, if external fraud is feared controls
that are too tight may result in the rejection of business and the loss of income due to controls that are too tight.
The first difficult in examining fraud is in its definition, there is no single all encompassing definition that can be applied. Often fraud will be defined as being
the attempt to obtain goods or service by way of deceit in an illegal or unfair manner. This can be as simple as credit card fraud to the fraudulent use
of company funds or fraud as practised by employees on their own or as part of a larger team with the intention of making a gain. However, this is a
narrow definition. Interestingly, the law or the courts have never defined fraud in full (Ivamy, 2000). Fraud can be divided into
two types of fraud, actual fraud and constructive fraud (Ivamy, 2000), both of which may be harmful to an organisation. Actual fraud is where there is something said, done or
missed out by an individual in order to undertake what is known by that person to be a positive fraud (Ivamy, 2000). Constructive frauds are; "acts, statements or omissions
which operate as virtual frauds on individuals or which, if generally permitted, would be prejudicial to the public welfare, and yet may be unconnected to any selfish or evil designs"
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