This manual provides a comprehensive, standards-based framework for establishing, operationalising and continuously improving fraud and corruption governance capability across organisations of all sizes and sectors. Fraud and corruption remain two of the most pervasive threats to organisational sustainability: the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE, 2024) estimates that organisations globally lose approximately 5% of annual revenues to occupational fraud – equating to an economic burden of US$4.7 trillion per year. Despite this scale of exposure, the evidence demonstrates that fraud is not inevitable. Organisations that invest systematically in governance architecture, prevention controls, safe reporting mechanisms and trained investigation capability consistently detect fraud earlier, suffer lower losses and recover more effectively than those that rely on reactive, ad hoc approaches.
The manual integrates four international ISO standards – ISO 37001:2016 (Anti-Bribery Management Systems), ISO 37002:2021 (Whistleblowing Management Systems), ISO 37003:2023 (Fraud Control Management) and ISO 37008:2023 (Organisational Investigations) – together with the ISO 31000:2018 risk management framework, the COSO Internal Control and Fraud Risk Management frameworks (2013, 2016) and the IIA Three Lines Model (2020), into a single, coherent operational guide. The manual spans ten substantive sections covering: governance framework design and the Three Lines of Defence model; formal governance instruments and board-level structures; whistleblowing systems and protected disclosure management; fraud risk assessment and fraud control planning; internal policies and the Prevent–Detect–Respond control architecture; a ten-phase fraud investigation methodology; ISO standards integration; ten real-world case studies; and governance maturity assessment checklists. A comprehensive reference list of more than thirty authoritative sources is provided.
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