The Most Common Financial Statement and Asset Fraud Schemes: How to Detect and Prevent Them
Description
Many costly fraudulent schemes have been detected throughout the past several decades. How do these material fraud schemes continue to succeed? This webcast answers that question. You will be provided with descriptions of how the most common types of financial statements and misappropriation of asset fraud schemes are detected. The webcast also covers cost-effective internal controls that can be implemented to prevent these schemes.
You will even review classic and contemporary real-world fraud cases to reinforce how these schemes are perpetrated due to internal control failures and other factors. Lastly, the webcast addresses red flags that may be indicative of these fraud schemes.
Learning Objectives
Identify the schemes used to misstate revenue, inventory, asset overstatements, estimates, and other accounts
Distinguish suspicious journal entries
Determine the red flags associated with fraud schemes concerning revenue, inventory, asset overstatements, estimates, and other accounts
Apply analytical procedures to detect various types of fraud
Compare 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, parables and other accounts
Review of landmark cases where the fraud scheme(s) occurred: WorldCom, Phar-Mor, McKesson and Robbins, Waste Management, MiniScribe, Stew Leonard and others
Provider
AICPA
Course Level
Intermediate
Professional Area of Focus
Accounting & Auditing
CPE Field of Study
Auditing
4.0
Who Should Attend
Business owners, managers, supervisors, employees, accountants and auditors