For the past two decades the trend has been to move away from brick and mortar offices and have a greater number of people work or telecommute from home. Because of the upheaval caused by recent events, the rate of this move has been accelerated. This has and will continue to create control challenges and organizations must work to address these. Such things as moving from time based employee value to task completion based measurement and the ability to drive needed inter-company communication are just a sample of the issues with which entities must contend. This session looks at the benefits and pitfalls of workers that telecommute. It then discusses important risks and controls to consider as this trend continues and evolves in the business world. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Determine the steps needed to implement a developed system of internal controls
- Apply steps to build control measure schedules that function weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly, and that are designed to test and monitor the internal control structure of an organization
- Analyze developed control measures to make sure they are working properly
- Determine why there is a need to update existing controls to keep them viable as business operations change
- Identify methods that can be used to communicate policy and procedure changes to those that are affected by these changes
Major Topics
The major topics included in this course include:
- The reasons for fraud
- Fraudulent acts that are initiated against smaller organizations
- Methods to stop fraud attempts against small businesses
