Industry Fraud Risks
Process Analysis
Operating Characteristics
Fraud Triangle
100

The risk of this increases when hotels use online booking and check-ins without proper security."

What is data theft?

100

PSU Hotel’s core business processes include

What is operations and service ?

100

At PSU, final billing processes are at risk of error because night auditors do this task around 3 a.m., slipping the bill under guests' doors.

What is delivering the final bill?

100
  • Lag time between transaction and recognition of revenue
  • Lack of oversight for specific operating characteristics

These are examples of this part of the fraud triangle?

What is Opportunity?

200

With not enough workers, hotels may struggle to prevent this type of dishonest action involving money.

What is theft?, or misappropriation of assets?

200

There  is a risk due to a lack of  ______ as the accounting managers have both preparation and approval authority

What is segregation of duties?

200

This type of manager at PSU is responsible for planning, executing, and recording all details of events, which creates high fraud risk due to a lack of oversight?

Who is the catering manager?

200

Keeping up competitors Personal wealth and personal wealth pertain to what part of the fraud triangle?

What is Incentive?

300

When hotels fail to meet customer expectations, they might resort to falsifying these metrics to hide poor performance.

what are customer satisfaction metrics?

300

The hotel’s resource management processes include these three aspects (only need to get two)

What is marketing, sales and human resource management?

300

This control is required for transactions over $2,500, but employees can work around it by reporting just below this amount.

What is the two-approver requirement?

300

Telling yourself "no one will notice" pertains to this side of the fraud triangle

What is rationalization?

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