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Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Corporate crime can cause financial losses to a business, damage its reputation, and may result in the loss of customers. This course explores how fraud, insider dealing, bribery, money laundering, and other types of corporate wrongdoing occur. It also outlines what legal measures exist to prevent and respond to them. You’ll learn about different forms of financial and organisational crime, the warning signs to watch for, and the responsibilities companies have to prevent such behaviour.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B251 Business Law.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- understand the nature of, and legal controls over, insider dealing and market abuse
- describe the nature of, and legal controls over, fraud and money laundering, including relevant policies, procedures and controls
- recognise the nature of, and legal controls over, bribery
- discuss potential criminal activity in the operation, management and liquidation of companies, including fraud and the failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
- recognise the nature of, and legal controls over, fraudulent and wrongful trading.
First Published: 28/03/2025
Updated: 28/03/2025
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