Internal auditors need to be involved in, and understand, the organization’s fraud detection and prevention efforts.
Nearly half of all global organizations in PwC's 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey admit to having been the victim of fraud and economic crime in the past two years, resulting in more than $7 billion in total losses and a median loss of $130,000 per case. Nearly half of those frauds were because of internal control weaknesses.