You are applying for a staff position in the fraud division of a regional accounting firm. The hiring manager has asked you to send them a professional email addressing the difference in motivations for management and employee fraud. The hiring manager has also asked you to include a practice evaluation to assess your knowledge of fraud schemes and has provided you with different scenarios that you might analyze from the viewpoint of a fraud examiner.

The skills practiced in this activity will help to support you in your project.

Directions

Using the Fraud Scheme Scenarios document in the Supporting Materials section, compose professional email addressed to the hiring manager of a regional accounting firm.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

1. Compare the motivation for management and employee fraud.
2. Identify the major category of the fraud scheme in each scenario.
3. Identify the specific type of fraud in each scenario.
4. Describe whether management or employee fraud is occurring in each scenario.
5. Explain the characteristics of each identified fraud scheme.