The investigation of fraud and conduct of the audit

Today, fraud acts are percieved as a major problem for businesses. In terms of frequency, amount and fields of these actions, with the improvements in technology, they are growing to be more serious. The costs of these actions to the victim enterprise may be at levels that can not be ignored and even can cause bankruptcy. For the reasons above mentioned, the important point for fraud audit in enterprises is to detect it before the action is carried out and to take the required measures for it. With the fraud prevention mechanism, the managers of enterprizes may prevent the enterprize to pay costs in both financial and moral terms. No manager would want to suffer losing the values created after long and tiring efforts to a situation created by the act of fraud. Due to the nature of the acts of fraud, the information such as frequency, amount and level of the acts of faud is not certain information despite all the efforts. In the study, firstly the term of the fraud is defined and types of fraud and reasons are explained. In the third part of the study, the prevention of fraud is mentioned. In the fourth part, the investigation of fraud and conduct of the audit is emphasized. Keywords: Fraud, prevention, audit, investigation