Introduction Evidently, asset misappropriation in corporations is not a new phenomenon as cases of fraud by senior company employees have been prevalent since 20th century. Schemes involving asset misappropriation include frauds where perpetrators employ deceit or trickery to misuse or steal corporation’s resources. In this scenario, organization’s assets are taken to benefit the individuals engaged in the frauds. Typically, individual engaged in assets misappropriation (which is a crime) are organizational employees, vendors or customers but, over 90% of cases reported were committed by employees. Asset misappropriation is characterized by taking organizational resources through deceit or trickery rather than force. Furthermore, concealment, conversion and asset theft “acts” must be present (Institute of Management Accountants, 2009). Asset misappropriation falls into two categories namely; theft of non-cash assets and theft of cash