Building Your Own Library of Anti-fraud & Continuous Monitoring Tests

Overview

In this course, participants will gain a broad understanding of the various anti-fraud preventive and detective tests available to practitioners and take initial steps in building their own library of tests unique to their business or industry risks. Specific discussions and examples will include vendor analysis to look for potentially improper payments around conflicts of interests, fake vendor schemes, bribery & corruption, sanctions and trade compliance, anomalous payments, segregation of duties, among other risk categories.  Participants will also explore tests around customers or distributors that include margin analysis, free goods, discounts and revenue recognition. Further, we will explore employee related test to mitigate travel & entertainment expense abuses. We will also point out various online and public resources for participants to start building their own library of tests to support both reactive investigations as well as proactive prevention and detection.

Highlights

• Build your own forensic data analytics tests around vendors, customers or employees
• Expand your knowledge and library of available anti-fraud tests and behavioral algorithms
• Align the right tests to the appropriate risks
• Practical applications and use cases

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

CPAs, including external auditors, Internal Auditors, Certified Fraud Examiners and Investigators & Risk and Compliance Professionals

Objectives

• Exposure to hundreds of anti-fraud tests around vendors, customers and employees
• Understand the difference between rules based (supervised) test vs. statistical (unsupervised) tests and why they are both important
• Learn the importance of text mining and natural language processing to find corrupt intent
• Build your own library of anti-fraud tests using various public resources

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network (ACPEN).