If you accidentally report more hours than you worked, how is this treated if you did not intend to commit fraud?

When hours worked are reported incorrectly but without any intent to deceive, it is generally not considered fraud. Fraud involves malicious intent to misrepresent facts for personal gain. If the over-reporting of hours was unintentional, it reflects a mistake rather than a deliberate act of fraud.

In many organizational contexts, such inadvertent errors are treated with more understanding and may simply require a correction rather than severe consequences. This approach recognizes that errors can happen, particularly in complex record-keeping processes, and addresses them through correction rather than punishment.

Other options imply intentional wrongdoing or severe repercussions that are more appropriate in cases of deliberate fraud rather than honest mistakes.