Fraud: financial statement fraud expected to increase.

• Position: IRS NEWS

Nearly 60 percent of business professionals surveyed during a Deloitte webcast about reducing fraud risks believe more financial statement fraud will be uncovered this year and in 2011, as compared to the last three years. Other survey results:

* 46 percent pointed to the recession as the reason more financial statement fraud will be uncovered.

* 45 percent said it's getting harder to assess financial statement fraud risks because of changes in the risk...