Prevention, Detection & Analysis of Corporate Fraud

Statement of Need

Corporate fraud or employee and management fraud is a pervasive problem. It occurs at an alarming rate in both public and private sector institutions. It should be contained otherwise efforts by government, boards and management to pursue and achieve strategic goals and protect owners and stakeholders interests shall be thwarted through prevalence of corporate fraud. Participants will discuss strategies to prevent, detect and analyze instances of corporate fraud.

Who Attends

Officials from  all  sectors;    government  and  state-owned  enterprises, public companies,   private   companies   including   non-government organizations.  They  include corporate accountants, treasurers, internal auditors, investigators, lawyers, corporate security staff, ethics officers and other professionals who deal with corporate management fraud from the standpoint of prevention, investigation, and detection in organizations.

How participants will benefit

At the end of the Programme, participants will be able to:

• Identify fraud opportunities in organizational environment;
• Monitor and identify personal pressures which lead to higher propensity to commit fraud;
• Set up strategies including fraud policy, to prevent fraud or at least to minimize the impact of fraud and fraudulent activities;
• Investigate more effectively fraud and fraud related activities.

Topics Include

• Auditing standards;
• Elements of control;
• Fraud prevention;
• Fraud detection;
• Fraud investigation;
• Information on 212 cases of fraud.