2-DAY COURSE
Forensic Accounting: Spotting Financial Fraud
Bring a laptop running Excel, this is a hands-on course!
Understand where to look to answer the three key questions:
- Are the company’s earnings repeatable?
- Are they controllable?
- Are they bankable?
Immediate Benefits of Attending:
- Learn to identify the 25 most common accounting misdirections
- Detect any finely manipulated details that can have a dramatic adverse impact on the financial health of an organization
- Know how to protect your investments against accounting fraud
- Easily review financial data and support documents to identify irregular patterns and suspicious transactions
- Master the skill of looking behind the numbers
- Learn to recognize the common “warning signs” of earnings manipulaton and accounting fraud
- Learn to identify and examine critical line items and footnotes
- Scrutinize and determine obvious and subtle effects of common transactions on line items
- Understanding in detail reporting forms and what and how they report 10-K and 10-Q
- Understand the basics and the fundamentals of Forensic Analysis
- Know how to spot the most common accounting manipulations used to distort earnings and cash flow
- Know the common relationships among capital items and revenues, where problems can be hidden
- Understand the interrelationship between the three key financial statements – how things should look
- Spot manipulation in Revenue, COGs, Operating Expense and Non Operating financial items
- Critical information and resources never before available in one source
- Have the assurance that everyone did the right thing, and that things are as they should be!
- Know the differences between accidental oversights and full scale fraud
- Identify information that is NOT represented in a financial statement
Should You Attend?
Anyone making a financial decision; investments, acquisitions, stock purchase or legal issues, should attend this long overdue program. In the Finance and business world, we are often educated and experienced in the day to day operations and financial decision making, assuming others are doing their jobs accurately and responsibly. It’s not always the case. Those who will most benefit from attending include:
- Attorneys
- Commercial Bankers
- Loan Officers
- Investment Bankers
- Equity Researchers
- Investment Managers
- Hedge Fund Analysts
- Private Equity Analysts
Financial Consultants
- Corporate Financial Analysts
- CFO’s
- Accountants
After two days, you’ll have the tools to make certain things are as they “should be”. You will know what you’re looking for and how to spot accounting fraud in any type of financial statement or report.
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