{"id":4903,"date":"2022-10-25T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:01:22","slug":"how-smes-can-avoid-becoming-victims-of-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/how-smes-can-avoid-becoming-victims-of-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"How SMEs can avoid becoming victims of fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With SMEs throughout the country struggling to grow and maximise profits, given the economic headwinds, fraud could be a major problem.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Metropolitan Police, fraud can come from anywhere, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Staff members<\/li>\n<li>Customers<\/li>\n<li>Suppliers<\/li>\n<li>Third parties, unconnected to the business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<p>Support from accountants is also vital as they can help to identify fraud through the services provided to businesses<\/p>\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<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 problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,116,4,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4903\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}