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Greetings!
This week, Nov. 12-16, 2012, is International Fraud Awareness Week. As official supporters of Fraud Week, we want to provide you with the resources you need to fight fraud within your organization.
Within this month's update is a case study highlighting a fellow user's quest to uncover fraud, links to anti-fraud resources, and a tech tip to help you with the first step to identifying fraud.
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Fraud Findings Credit Balance Hide and Seek
A determined internal
auditor and a simple data analysis technique uncover an
insurance company's fraud against its customers.
David Arnold, the internal auditor for Amity Insurance Co., began his workweek with a visit to one of the company's field offices, where commercial customers interact with employees and pay their premiums. The audit included a surprise after-hours inspection to make sure doors and cabinets were locked, negotiable instruments were not lying around, and live checks were stored securely.
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Did you know... Organizations around the world lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to fraud.
The ACFE created the International Fraud Awareness Week Movement to increase the awareness of fraud and highlight the importance of fraud prevention.
We recommend you visit fraudweek.com and stopfraud.gov to view resources and tips for fighting fraud.
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Tech Tips
Loading Problem PDFs into the Report Reader
Finding fraud must start with getting the data into IDEA. Luckily, the Report Reader feature of IDEA makes it easy to import reports printed to a file, including PDFs.
Occasionally, one must resort to using a PDF file that was scanned in from paper documents or using PDFs that were generated with an automated system not employing an Adobe printer (most often, these systems employ other third party software). Currently, IDEA works best with Adobe-formatted PDFs. That doesn't mean IDEA won't work with other types; it simply means it's not always guaranteed.
There is a quick solution, however. Utilizing Acrobat X (older versions have been known to work, but the Help Desk has seen Acrobat X succeed where others have failed), one can convert those other type reports as well as very neatly scanned PDFs by using one of the following procedures:
- Use Acrobat to save out the PDF to MS Word. From Word, you can then save back out to PDF. It's best to save from Word to PDF, don't use the PDF printer to create a file. We've noticed it works best with Acrobat X compared to older versions.
- In Acrobat, go to File - Print and use PDF printer to create a new file.
- Extract all pages in Acrobat and then save under a new name.
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Upcoming IIUG Meetings
Central Ohio
Nov. 27
Atlanta
Dec. 6
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If it takes you more than 20 minutes to utilize any IDEA function, contact us for assistance.
888.641.2800,
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