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When Process Breaks Down, Fraud Finds a Way: Through Invoices, Expenses or Both!

A subsidiary lost a material share of its annual turnover for eight straight years to a fraud scheme that never tripped a single control, because the controls were watching the wrong things. The Fint…

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David deBoisblanc  ·  Co-founder & Principal
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