The good news is that, motivated by concern—even fear—of being victimized by fraudsters whose exploits have been gaining increasing media attention in recent years, many organizations are finally investing in the financial and human resources necessary

to protect against this risk.

The bad news is that, despite these augmented anti-fraud initiatives, too many organizations are falling short of truly effective protection against the inexorable spread of economic crime.

Often, several of the essential elements of a fraud program

exist but management fails to fully integrate these elements across the organization. It is not unusual to find fragmented detection and investigation procedures and policies spread throughout

an organization with each area unable to make meaningful progress on its own.