in a recent presentation on corruption and fraud analytics held at the Thailand regional forum, Richard batten, technical adviser, forensic services, at deloitte touche tohmatsu Thailand, discussed the dimensions of internal fraud within the corporate sector, and the role of data analytics as a detection device accessible to every organization that has access to corporate databases. all major companies have access to what is nowadays called "big data". even small companies have substantial data sources. these sources can be used for a variety of purposes, one of which is the detection of internal fraud.