I am currently planning to offer my wholly unique and practical “Advanced Forensic Accounting” course in various locations. The course is worth 8 hours of CPE for CPAs, which should be accepted also for CFEs, CIAs and others who accept CPA CPE. If you have an interest in getting on our mailing list so that you can become aware of offerings near you, please email:  Training@ArtificeForensics.com

Using just three months of bank account information, will you be able to unravel "Sammy's" plan? Lives may depend on it....

This unique and interactive course is designed primarily to influence the way that one approaches and thinks when analyzing financial records in the course of a fraud or financial investigation. It is an improved and appropriately modified course (i.e. nothing “classified”) that I developed and used to train new FBI Agents at the FBI Academy, many of whom had no prior investigative, audit or financial investigations experience.

The course begins with an introduction to critical thinking in an investigative context, followed by a discussion about how financial records can be used to profile a person and how that profile can be critical and useful in an investigation. Specific and technical steps are then discussed about collecting, organizing and analyzing financial information and how to document that analysis.

The vast majority of learning is through participation in and discussion about a detailed practical exercise where you are challenged with a forensic accounting role within a real-life scenario. In the scenario, you work in teams and are provided with three months of bank statements, including the supporting documentation for each transaction, and tasked to conduct analysis and live internet research using the techniques you have learned. The places and people in the scenario are mostly real or otherwise back-stopped on the internet to challenge and enthrall new and experienced financial investigators alike.

The practical based nature of this course, team-work (as small teams and as a larger class) and double-reinforcement of the learning through repeated application works, effectively impacting the way that you think and making you a better financial/fraud investigator.

The course not only works - it's the most fun eight hours of CPE or similar training you'll ever have outside of Hogan's Alley!