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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
This course provides an overview of forensic accounting and its role in preventing, detecting, and investigating fraud within organizations. Participants will explore how forensic accounting differs from traditional accounting, while gaining an understanding of key concepts related to fraud, including its impact, common types, and methods of prevention and detection.
Topics Include:
- Thinking Forensically
- Skills and Traits of Forensic Accountants
- Fraud Impact, Perpetrators, Prevention and Detection
- Types of Fraud
- Clues: Documents and Analytical Techniques
- Conducting the Investigation
- Benefits of In-House Forensic Accountants
Key Takeaways
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
- Recall the role of forensic accounting and key concepts related to fraud.
- Identify skills and traits of forensic accountants.
- Recognize the impact of fraud and methods of prevention and detection.
- Differentiate types of fraud.
- Identify clues to fraud and methods to plan and conduct investigations.
- Recall the benefits of bringing forensic accounting skills in-house.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for accounting professionals and auditors seeking to strengthen their understanding of fraud risk and investigative practices.
Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, this on demand course is not compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access the Course
To access the course on your computer please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Becker has been the partner accountants trust with their professional education for more than 60 years. Our team of expert instructors draws on decades of real-world experience to deliver comprehensive coursework that translate concepts into real-life examples. Becker has prepared people from more than 2,900 accounting firms, alliances, corporations, government agencies and universities.