The Most Common Financial Statement and Asset Fraud Schemes: How to Detect and Prevent Them
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.
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, 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. Stew Leonard, and others
Provider
AICPA
Course Level
Intermediate
Professional Area of Focus
Accounting & Auditing
CPE Field of Study
Auditing
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Who Should Attend
Business owners, managers, supervisors, employees, accountants and auditors