This was going to be a simple article on the best way to alert companies about occupational fraud and their employees, and then describe one solution.

FORBES: How Do You Spot The Thief Inside Your Company?

Their many schemes are identified as occupational fraud in the Report to the Nations, produced every two years since 1996 by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, or ACFE.

FORBES: How Do You Spot The Thief Inside Your Company?

Based on the ACFE 2010 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse to identify the most common types of fraudulent acts, the researchers used misappropriation of assets and fraudulent financial reporting as case examples to solicit feedback from 96 evening MBA students.

FORBES: Don't Ask/Don't Tell About Corporate Fraud: The Effect of Confrontation On Intentions to Report Fraud by Kelly Richmond Pope, Ph.D., CPA, Peter Milan and Anya Hostetler