Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System

This paper examines the issues of internal control viz., fraud prevention in the banking industry, adopting both primary and secondary data. Primary data was used to test internal control while secondary data were employed to test fraud prevention. The main primary variables were separation of duti...

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Main Authors: Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye, Felicia Omowunmi Olokoyo, Joseph Niyan Taiwo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2016-05-01
Series:International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32012/353813?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturk
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author Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye
Felicia Omowunmi Olokoyo
Joseph Niyan Taiwo
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description This paper examines the issues of internal control viz., fraud prevention in the banking industry, adopting both primary and secondary data. Primary data was used to test internal control while secondary data were employed to test fraud prevention. The main primary variables were separation of duties, monitoring, and staff qualifications while the main secondary variables are bank profit, regulation, technology and M2. In both cases regression techniques were adopted. The results show that internal control on its own is effective against fraud, but not all staff are committed to it, while the secondary data is quite supportive of the primary data but more exemplifying in that M2, staff qualifications and technology were significant throughout the various dependent variables. It is also clear from the regressions that technological based fraud is significant. The paper recommends the continuation of the cashless policy of the Central Bank to reduce available cash and improvement in educated staff engagement to reduce fraud in the banking system.
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spelling doaj.art-8ab1f7d5a16b472da1315c4258316d222023-02-15T16:18:40ZengEconJournalsInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues2146-41382016-05-0163117211791032Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking SystemKehinde Adekunle AdetiloyeFelicia Omowunmi OlokoyoJoseph Niyan TaiwoThis paper examines the issues of internal control viz., fraud prevention in the banking industry, adopting both primary and secondary data. Primary data was used to test internal control while secondary data were employed to test fraud prevention. The main primary variables were separation of duties, monitoring, and staff qualifications while the main secondary variables are bank profit, regulation, technology and M2. In both cases regression techniques were adopted. The results show that internal control on its own is effective against fraud, but not all staff are committed to it, while the secondary data is quite supportive of the primary data but more exemplifying in that M2, staff qualifications and technology were significant throughout the various dependent variables. It is also clear from the regressions that technological based fraud is significant. The paper recommends the continuation of the cashless policy of the Central Bank to reduce available cash and improvement in educated staff engagement to reduce fraud in the banking system.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32012/353813?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturkdeposit money banks internal control fraud prevention regulation cashless policy
spellingShingle Kehinde Adekunle Adetiloye
Felicia Omowunmi Olokoyo
Joseph Niyan Taiwo
Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues
deposit money banks
internal control
fraud prevention
regulation
cashless policy
title Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
title_full Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
title_fullStr Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
title_full_unstemmed Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
title_short Fraud Prevention and Internal Control in the Nigerian Banking System
title_sort fraud prevention and internal control in the nigerian banking system
topic deposit money banks
internal control
fraud prevention
regulation
cashless policy
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ijefi/issue/32012/353813?publisher=http-www-cag-edu-tr-ilhan-ozturk
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