Library - Fraud Section

Fraud is a reality that we are systematically faced with. Adding knowledge of Fraud to Economics and Management is an added value for the exercise of professional activity.

In companies, fraud means flight of resources, a negative factor for the exercise of business activity, which can become particularly burdensome.
Detecting, preventing and controlling fraud is extremely important to avoid slippage in companies, slippage that can lead to huge economic losses, loss of confidence and bring discredit to levels that are difficult to recover from.

At FEP there is sensitivity and concern about this issue, and fraud is a field of research.

FEP’s library recently reorganised the works linked to the subject -Fraud- and created a new multidisciplinary section (FRD), which is now being promoted. It has, in paper and digital form, diverse literature on fraud and related issues.

All resources can be searched in the Catalogue in the following fields:

• Location: FRD*
• Subject: Fraude e/ou  Gestão da Fraude

The new section is available for free access in the Gallery - Floor 2

• Postgraduate in Fraud Management, , Postgraduate course lasting 270 hours of face-to-face training (3 trimesters), corresponding to 18 teaching modules and 3 seminars. The 1st edition of the course took place in 2008
• Carlos José Gomes Pimenta,Economist, FEP Full Professor and Emeritus Professor at the University of Porto, was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Achievement in Outreach / Community Service award by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the world's largest anti-fraud organisation
• Economy and Fraud, Free training course, taught at FEP, academic year 2013/2014