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Week 1 HW Strayer University, Washington ACC 557

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Week 1 Course Overview Everyday around the world, thousands of businesses are victimized by fraud. Fraud examination and forensic accounting provide tools and techniques for preventing, deterring, ... detecting, investigating and remediating bad acts grounded in financial gain. In this course we are going to help participants answer the questions: Who commits fraud?, How? and Why? We will also help in the development of skills that may be used for identification of fraud and catching fraudsters including: 1. Identifying common red flags for the individual who commit typical frauds, the accidental fraudster. 2. Differentiating between accidental and predator fraudsters, recognizing the nefarious nature and costly impact of the predator fraudster, as well as identifying basic organizational control structures used to prevent fraud. 3. Examining evidential matter, both electronic and paper formats including “big data” to determine the: who, what, when, where and how of fraudulent acts. 4. Reviewing the elements involved in money laundering when concealing illicit and illegal sources of financial gain. Providing possible solutions to effectively combating sophisticated crossjurisdictional crime. 5. Identifying the characteristics of a whist [Show More]

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