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Who Provided the Data?
We asked survey respondents to provide certain information about their professional experience and qualifications
so that we could gather a fuller understanding of who was involved in investigating the frauds reported to us.

Primary Occupation
The top three occupations of contributors to this Report were internal auditors, fraud examiners/investigators and
accounting/finance professionals; combined, these three categories represent 69% of all survey respondents.

Figure 83: Primary Occupation of Survey Participants

Internal Auditor 29.6%
Fraud Examiner/Investigator 29.0%
Accounting/Finance Professional 10.6%
Consultant 6.0%
6.3%
Law Enforcement
RESPONDENT’S OCCUPATION Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional 2.4% 4.2%
Corporate Security and Loss Prevention
4.7%
Other
Private Investigator
2.3%
External Auditor
1.7%
Educator 0.9%
IT/Computer Forensics Specialist 0.8%
Bank Examiner 0.8%
Attorney 0.7%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

PERCENT OF PARTICIPANTS

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