corporate theft
White-collar crime
Corporate theft covers stealing from or by corporations.
Employees commit corporate theft when they embezzle funds, pilfer inventory, or misuse company resources.
The term also describes corporations stealing from others—through wage theft, fraud, or exploiting customers and suppliers.
The accounting scandal revealed years of corporate theft at the highest levels.
- embezzlementFraudulent taking of entrusted assets
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- white-collarOffice work designation
- insiderOne with confidential access
- insider tradingIllegal securities transactions using nonpublic information
skimming · cooking the books · creative accounting · laundering · kickback · misappropriation · siphoning · shell company · Enron · Bernie Madoff · Ponzi scheme · scandal · forensic audit · audit · paper trail · whistleblower · executive · offshore
- theftstealing, larceny, steal, burglary, robbery
- embezzlementpeculation, defalcation, misuse of funds, misappropriation, siphoning
- financial crimesbank fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
corporate theftbusiness ethics
Moral standards in commerce
ethical business practices · corporate responsibility · corporate ethics · business integrity · corporate accountability
corporate theftstreet robbery
Forcible theft outdoors
petty theft · street crime · mugging · pickpocketing · burglary
corporate theftwage theft
Employer withholding earned compensation
labor exploitation · worker exploitation · employee theft · union busting · benefit cuts
corporate, corporation, corporations, corporately, corporatism, corporatist, incorporate, incorporated, incorporating