Payroll Fraud: How To Tell If Your Employees Are Ripping You Off

According to one study by fraud experts, approximately 15% of all business theft is perpetrated through payroll fraud.

In most companies, it is one of the easiest ways for employees to bite the hand that feeds them. Whether it’s paying ghost employees, paying employees multiple or inflated paychecks, paying unauthorized overtime, or granting reimbursements for fraudulent expense requests, there are many ways your own workers can help themselves.

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Through this webinar, you will learn not only the most common ways you are susceptible to fraud, but how to prevent, detect and deter the behavior.

Learning Objectives:

• The ways in which fraud can be perpetrated against your company
  
• How to conduct internal fraud audits, in order to detect weaknesses in your current payroll and accounting systems
  
• How to adjust your oversight methods, to catch fraud before it happens
  
• How to analyze your accounting records in order to detect fraudulent activity
  
• What to do if you suspect employees of fraud

Mark Schwartz is an ex-payroll auditor with over 15 years experience in state and federal payroll tax audits, collections, and payroll consulting.

As an auditor, Mark prided himself on his ability to educate his auditees on state and federal payroll tax requirements. Whatever issues he found in audits, he ensured the auditee knew how to comply in the future. He worked to minimize company disruptions in the audit process.

In addition to his real-life experiences, Mark has a Masters in Business Administration, and currently uses his entertaining and helpful personality to help organizations prepare for payroll tax audits - whether they've already got the notice or are still hoping they don't!

HRCI Credits

This program has been approved for 1.5 re-certification credit hours for HRCI's PHR and SPHR designations through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for re-certification credit.

SHRM Professional Development Credits

This program is valid for 1.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP designations. For more information about certification or re-certification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.