20 minutes
1 module
NOTE
The course can be customised to reflect the organisation’s particular fraud risks, controls, systems, approval structures, reporting channels and operating environment. This makes it a useful baseline for more targeted fraud awareness in sectors such as mining, manufacturing, financial services and the public sector.
If you would like to address fraud together with bribery and corruption, then please view our Anti-Bribery and Corruption course.
overview
Build a fraud-awareness baseline
Fraud does not always begin with a dramatic plan. It may develop through a combination of pressure, opportunity and rationalisation: a personal problem, a weak control, a small exception or a justification for conduct that would ordinarily not be permitted.
This course gives employees a general understanding of why fraud occurs, what common warning signs may look like and how they can help protect workplace controls and report concerns.
It provides broad awareness rather than detailed training on particular fraud schemes, forensic investigation or management oversight.
The course
Understand why fraud happens
This short course provides a foundation in workplace fraud awareness. It covers what fraud is, common warning signs, basic prevention measures and employees’ reporting responsibilities.
It helps employees understand how fraud risk may arise in ordinary workplace activity, who may commit fraud, which behavioural or transactional warning signs may warrant attention, and how employees and organisations can help prevent and report suspected fraud.
The standard course focuses on general awareness and early reporting. Organisation-specific fraud schemes, controls and scenarios can be added through customisation.
Core risk
Employees do not need to investigate fraud. They do need to recognise when something warrants attention.
Make it your own
Adapt the baseline to your risks
Fraud risks differ substantially between organisations. The relevant warning signs depend on the organisation’s transactions, assets, systems, suppliers, controls, workforce and operating environment.
The standard course creates a common foundation. It can then be customised around the areas of greatest exposure.
Depending on your industry, this may include procurement and vendor fraud, contractor and supplier relationships, stock or equipment losses, payroll and expense manipulation, approval hierarchies, management override, system access, manual overrides and pressure to bypass established controls.
The organisation’s own behavioural and transactional indicators, policies, escalation routes and reporting channels can also be incorporated.
This allows the training to remain concise while making it relevant to the fraud risks employees and managers may actually encounter.
Build employee fraud awareness around the risks your organisation faces.
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Why should organisations provide fraud awareness training?
Fraud can develop through ordinary workplace activity, particularly where pressure, opportunity, weak controls and rationalisation combine.
Employees may be closest to the early signs that something is wrong. Fraud awareness helps them understand why controls matter, recognise when conduct may require attention and report concerns through the correct channels.
The training does not turn employees into investigators. It gives them a practical foundation for recognising and responding to possible fraud risk.
Who should complete fraud training?
The standard course is suitable for employees who need a general foundation in workplace fraud awareness.
It may be particularly relevant to employees who handle payments, records, approvals, assets, expenses, procurement, suppliers or reporting concerns. Employees and managers with greater exposure to particular fraud risks may require customised scenarios or additional role-specific content.
Why is fraud awareness relevant to compliance?
Fraud awareness is relevant to compliance because fraud risk often overlaps with financial crime, bribery, corruption, conflicts of interest, misuse of assets, false records and reporting failures. Employees do not need to investigate fraud, but they do need to recognise red flags and understand why procedures and controls should not be bypassed.
How is fraud awareness different from anti-bribery and corruption training?
Fraud awareness focuses on dishonest conduct used to obtain a benefit or cause a loss, together with the pressures, opportunities, control weaknesses and warning signs that may allow it to occur.
Anti-bribery and corruption training focuses more specifically on improper payments, kickbacks, inducements, abuse of entrusted power and corrupt dealings involving employees, suppliers, intermediaries or public officials.
The subjects may overlap, but they are not interchangeable. Organisations with exposure to both risks may use the courses together as separate parts of a broader financial-crime or ethics programme.
Does the standard course cover every type of workplace fraud?
No. The standard 20-minute course provides a general fraud-awareness foundation.
It introduces the main concepts employees need to understand, but it does not examine every fraud category, control weakness or industry-specific scheme in detail.
Where particular risks require greater attention, such as procurement and vendor fraud, payroll manipulation, asset losses, management override or system abuse, these can be addressed through customised content or additional role-specific training.
Can this course be customised to our organisation’s fraud risks?
Yes. The standard course is designed to provide a common foundation that can be adapted to the organisation’s actual fraud exposure.
Customisation can reflect the organisation’s transactions, assets, suppliers, systems, approval structures, internal controls and operating environment. It may address risks such as procurement and vendor fraud, payroll or expense manipulation, asset losses, collusion, management override, manual system interventions and pressure to bypass controls.
The organisation’s own policies, warning indicators, reporting channels and escalation procedures can also be incorporated so that employees understand how the general fraud principles apply in their work.
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