Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement in Government

YOUR 800-POUND GORILLA TO STOP PUBLIC CORRUPTION Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement in Government provides an unbiased look at the most common types of public fraud and corruption, digs into the human behaviors driving them, and offers a detailed standard of best practices to keep organizations on track. This focused guide tackles the fraud, waste, and the abuses of power that threaten to devalue the functions of our public service agencies. By disseminating tools and methods that promote greater transparency in operational practices and also by providing the reader with objective standards that they can use to easily spot irregular patterns and wrongdoing, this text can serve as a reference for the dedicated fraud fighter. No other single resource enables you to: Fully understand the nuts-and-bolts of the financial workings of government entities Compare and contrast how your agency performs in relation to an established set of financial practices Review a wide variety of in-depth case studies where malfeasance happened-even at the highest levels of government If you're charged with cleaning up a public agency, Preventing Fraud and Mismanagement in Government is all you need to consistently detect and stop unacceptable behaviors and inspire a self-governing spirit throughout a team of people.