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Payroll Fraud

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When making the statement “Our consulting engagements vary depending upon the industry of our client as well as the departments if specific ones are selected for evaluation,” Peggy simply meant that every case is individual. There is not on answer that fits every client. Peggy provides risk assessments for fraud and internal controls. All companies risk fraud in different areas and in different ways. For example, in a big company with many employees, payroll fraud might be an area determined a risk for fraud and internal controls such as, strict assignment of responsibilities and segregation of duties, might help to lower the risk of fraud. Whereas, in a small company with very few employees it would be quite difficult to perform payroll fraud …show more content…

For example, I worked for Mack Molding for 3 years. The first year I was in molding as a machine operator of plastic mold injection machines. We would create products off all kinds, from vapotherm – a baby breathing apparatus machine – to plastic storage crates. When running the molding machines, you would have to keep record of all parts made, even if they were rejects. There would then be another employee responsible for filling the hoppers with the plastic pellet material you needed to mold your products. The materials person would have to keep record of all materials supplied for each individual machine. Not only did they record what materials went to what machine, but they had to designated it to a particular job number. Along with recording the delivery of materials, you also had to record who made the delivery. Just like material when the final or rejected products where recorded there had to be a record of which employee was running the machine. As orders were filled the records of materials supplied and parts made would be compared, if a significant higher amount of materials were being recorded for disbursement then needed to make recorded number of made product, further investigating would be

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