Economic Crime and Fraud Prevention

Course Ref: FIN.7   Course Subject: Register for this course

Dates for this course

18/06/12 - 29/06/12

13/08/12 - 24/08/12

01/10/12 - 12/10/12

Who should attend:
• Auditors, risk and security managers who need a further
  understanding of Financial Crime Management
• Senior company executives, CEO’s and all levels of management including supervisors who wish to
  gain an insight into financial fraud
• Risk Managers, Auditors and any persons working within a regulatory body/department
• Compliance Staff
• Managers of regulatory bodies (FSA/SEC) and credit rating agencies

Course objectives:
• How to combat economic and organised crime, corruption, money laundering, cyber crime which
  involves criminal offences committed against or with the help of computer networks, and
  organised crime
• It will also seek to establish how economic crime and organised crime are linked to value added tax
  fraud, public procurement, over-invoicing, privatisation, counterfeiting of commercial products,
  investment fraud, environmental crime, and other fraud
• To review new developments and trends, in particular legislation in various countries and its perceived
  success or otherwise
• Consider and examine examples of fraud arising during the credit crisis

Course content: 

The Economic Crime Scene
• Types of Corporate Fraud Techniques
• Employee fraud
• Computer transfer fraud
• Management fraud
• Related Company fraud
• Corruption and bribery
• Bank Fraud
• Stock Falsification
•Offshore banking
•Falsifying Depreciation and Fixed Asset Values
•Off-Balance Sheet Borrowing
•Secret Accounts
•Values placed in intangible assets
•Money Laundering Methods
•Effect on the economy
•Fraud through Debtor and creditor balances
•Examples-Enron, Parmalat, B.I.C.C. Maxwell

 Corruption Prevention Strategies
• How to investigate fraud
• Detection
• Legal considerations
• The application of Financial Reporting Standards
• The Role of Internal and External Auditors in combating fraud
• The Company Audit Charter and the Audit Committee

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