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Product Description Bribery is often covert, tricky to prevent, and notoriously tough to uncover. Forensic accountants and fraud focused auditors are often successful at detecting bribes, but it is difficult for generalist internal auditors to find such transactions through regular auditing techniques. Fortunately, many anti-bribery controls are also internal controls for sound, general practices. This book offers practical information and advice on Third party bribery, Legislative and regulatory considerations, Channels through which bribes may be made, concealed, or prevented, Anti-bribery controls over an organization s expenditure, revenue, assets, and liabilities, Organizational whistleblowing hotlines, and Anticorruption compliance programs. Fraud detection is not normally the primary purpose of internal auditing, yet it is an important subject that cannot be ignored. Internal auditors advice and recommendations can encourage management to introduce and maintain strong internal controls over bribery risks. About the Author David ORegan, CIA, FCA, is auditor general of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, DC. A certified internal auditor and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, his professional experience includes external auditing with Price Waterhouse forerunner to PricewaterhouseCoopers, and international internal auditing and financial control with United Technologies Corporation. He was also chief audit executive of Oxford University Press. His books on auditing include Auditor s Dictionary and Strategies for Small Audit Shops. He was a contributing editor of Internal Auditor magazine from 2007 to 2013. All views expressed in this book are his own and not those of any organizations with which he is, or has been, associated.