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Australia and the United Kingdom that expense fraud has significant financial impact, costing firms in the U.S. Chrome River also cited findings from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) that expensereimbursement fraud makes up as much as 17 percent of business fraud in general. alone as much as $1.9
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