The Most Common Financial Statement and Asset Fraud Schemes: How to Detect and Prevent Them (111W461A16)
Description
Many costly fraudulent schemes have occurred repeatedly throughout the
past several decades. Why do these material fraud schemes continue to
succeed? Is this due to failures of properly designed internal controls?
Could the internal controls be adequate but not complied with? This
course provides descriptions of how the most common types of financial
statement and misappropriation of asset fraud schemes are detected.
Cost-effective internal controls that can be implemented to prevent
these schemes are provided. Classic and contemporary real-world fraud
cases are reviewed in detail to reinforce how these schemes are
perpetrated-both due to internal control failures and other factors. Red
flags that might possibly be indicative of these fraud schemes are
addressed.
Learning Objectives
Identify the schemes used to misstate revenue, inventory, asset overstatements, estimates, and other accounts;
Recognize suspicious journal entries; Be familiar with the red flags associated with fraud schemes concerning revenue, inventory, asset overstatements, estimates, and other accounts; Employ analytical procedures to detect various types of fraud; and Relate particular fraud schemes to landmark cases
Major Topics
Major financial statement frauds including, among others, sales and
other types of revenue, estimates, journal entries, and other accounts
Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes including skimming,
larceny, and additional schemes that occur in inventory, payables, and
other accounts
Review of landmark cases where the fraud scheme(s) occurred: , WorldCom,
Phar-Mor, McKesson and Robbins, Waste Management, MiniScribe, Mattel,
Inc