{"id":19777,"date":"2022-10-27T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2022-10-27T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T11:27:40","slug":"how-smes-can-avoid-becoming-victims-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/how-smes-can-avoid-becoming-victims-of-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"How SMEs can avoid becoming victims of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With SMEs throughout the country struggling to grow and maximise profits, given the economic headwinds, fraud could be a major problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Metropolitan Police, fraud can come from anywhere, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Staff members<\/li><li>Customers<\/li><li>Suppliers<\/li><li>Third parties, unconnected to the business<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 46 per cent of UK businesses cite fraud as a \u2018top threat\u2019 and 79 per cent say the current economic conditions have motivated them to reduce the amount of revenue they lose due to fraud, according to technology firm GoCardless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Support from accountants is also vital as they can help to identify fraud through the services provided to businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could include bookkeeping, accounts preparation, tax advice, assurance reviews, control reviews and audits. Accounting professionals are trained and know what to look out for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need help in preventing fraudulent attacks? Contact our team today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With SMEs throughout the country struggling to grow and maximise profits, given the economic headwinds, fraud could be a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/how-smes-can-avoid-becoming-victims-of-fraud\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  How SMEs can avoid becoming victims of fraud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-business-blog","category-fraud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19778,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorethompson.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}