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I am hoping that the 2012 Institute of Counter Fraud Studies Conference in June will provide me with some new insights into tackling fraud. There are some great topics on the agenda, including Fraud and Football Clubs, Fraud and Corruption in the Military, as well as fraud and error in government. Shining a light on these areas is an extraordinarily simple, but effective strategy for discouraging fraudsters; the one thing they don’t seek is the limelight! If you decide to come along to the conference then you’ll have the chance to browse all of our fraud and corruption titles and to win a copy of Alan Doig’s brand new book Fraud: The Counter Fraud Practitioner’s Handbook.
Infosecurity 2012 is taking place at Earl’s Court on 24 – 26 April. Gower author, Ian Mann, will be at the event with his company ECSC Ltd on stand E80.
Ian will be presenting at the event in the Business Strategy Theatre at 12pm on Thursday 26th April with the headline of Social Engineering IX – Hacking the Globe – a snappy little title, that sets the theme for an examination of cultural differences that impact on the task of the social engineer. This is the result of his social engineering work across a number of continents.
Do pop in and see Ian on the ECSC stand at any time during the three days - he will be doing regular short presentations each day. ECSC are vendor independent information security specialists offering expert guidance, support and management services.
Ian’s book, Hacking the Human is available from Gower Publishing.
Needless to say, you need to get into the mind of those people who are out to exploit loopholes in your corporate systems or processes to defraud you or otherwise damage your business. Ian Mann’s presentation for the Nottingham Branch of the British Computer Society on the evening of 21st March looks to teach you how to do just that. The event is free and open to non-BCS members. Ian Mann is author of Hacking the Human – Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures published by Gower.
Richard Minogue (The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption and, forthcoming, Bad Governance and Good Intent) poses a very interesting conundrum on his blog. He argues that despite paying lip service to governance, companies condone sharp practice and, worse still, some companies even mark down employees who put ethics above short-term gain.
On 15th September, Cary Cooper who is a Gower author and Editor of the Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk series, took part in a one hour live Q&A with the Chartered Management Institute. Please see Cary’s Q&A correspondence here.
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ct Manager Today magazine (p14), Gower author Dr Kaye Remington gives an overview of a six year old multi-national and multi-departmental programme of projects by the Australian Tax Office which has become the centre of a successful global attack on tax fraud using international co-operation to detect, deter and disrupt the abuse of tax havens.
Dr Remington is author of Tools for Complex Projects and the forthcoming Leading Complex Projects, both published by Gower.
Our latest Business and Management Catalogue is now completed. Do peruse it for new, forthcoming and popular titles at http://bit.ly/mn5lmR
We will be attending and have a stand at the 2011 CounterFraud and Forensic Accounting Conference on June 13th in Portsmouth, Hampshire. This one day event is run by Portsmouth University’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies.
More information about this conference can be found here 2011 CounterFraud and Forensic Accounting Conference.
You will also be able to meet these Gower authors who will be speaking at the conference:
- Dick Russill - A Short Guide to Procurement Risk
- Nigel Iyer – A Short Guide to Fraud Risk, and
- Garry Honey – A Short Guide to Reputation Risk
We usually focus specifically on our authors and editors in this blog. The following is the first of a series of posts over the coming couple of months, designed to give you a sense of our publishing in 2011.
Gower Publishing on Fraud, Risk and Security in 2011
There are several themes to our fraud, risk and security publishing through 2011 and into 2012.
Fraud and corporate crime: You can see a continuing focus on fraud and corporate crime with titles such as Kimberly Goetz’s An Introduction to Internet-Based Financial Investigations; The Anatomy of Fraud and Corruption by Tomas Brytting, Richard Minogue and Veronica Morino; a brand new Gower Handbook, The Handbook of Fraud Investigation and Prevention, edited by Alan Doig; and a look at a very specific aspect of fraud with Bernard Katz’s Detecting and Reducing Supply Chain Fraud.
Strategic risk: I think there’s an increased focus on strategic risk too, with books such as Gabrielle O’Donovan’s Solvency II: Stakeholder Communications and Change; Adrian Davies’ third book for Gower, Culture Clash and the Challenge of Globalisation, which looks ahead at the future for corporate governance; and Vicky Kubitscheck’s Integrated Assurance. Strategic risk is a theme behind many of the new titles in the Short Guides to Business Risk Series. With titles on Equality Risk (Tony Morden), Cartel Risk (Helen Bignall and John Pheasant) Compliance Risk, (Carl Macrae and Amelie Snape) amongst others, as well as David Tattam’s Short Guide to Operational Risk – not strategic, I grant you, but an excellent guide, nevertheless.
Risk facilitation and investigation: The final titles I’d like to highlight are Penny Pullen and Ruth Murray-Webster’s A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management and Crawford Robinson’s Investigations at Work; both intensely practical, practitioner-oriented books.
