Auditing and Governance, Risk and Compliance

Introduction

This course takes participants from the theory and concept of forensic accounting to its implementation and practice. It gives the necessary tools to help professionals add value to their organizations by examining fraud controls and applying forensic accounting and analysis to their data.

Target Competencies:

• Understand forensic accounting
• Apply forensic auditing
• Analyze financial data
• Detect fraud
• Prevent fraud
• Identify fraud and fraudsters
• Control fraud
• Examine data in Excel
• Utilize Excel for data analysis

Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain fraud and forensic accounting
• Implement fraud controls to decrease the likelihood of fraud in the organization
• Utilize Microsoft Office tools to find fraudulent transactions and report on them
• Apply statistical and forensic accounting tools to analyze data
• Assist internal audit and senior management in testing data and finding anomalies
• Utilize Excel efficiently to identify suspicious information that needs further fraud investigation
• Identify fraud and anomalies using Excel