This course will focus on selected topics within Forensic Accounting and covered on the CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) Exam. The objectives of this course are to provide students with an understanding of financial shenanigans and accounting gimmicks in order to assess and detect possible financial statement fraud (fraudulent financial reporting). Students will learn about and apply analytical tools to identify anomalies in an organization’s financial reports. In addition, students will analyze and assess non-financial data that may relate to financial statement manipulations. Cases are used to discuss fraud issues.

This course is designed to be useful particularly for those who aspire to be anti-fraud professionals, such as corporate risk management and compliance officers, fraud examiners, forensic/fraud analysts, internal fraud auditors, etc. (LO 1,2,3)