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Fraud in the Financial Markets ON DEMAND

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1.0 Credits

Member Price $58.00

Non-Member Price $67.00

Overview

There are many opportunities for fraud in the financial markets. In the Fraud in the Financial Markets course, we delve into how these schemes are conducted, who benefits from them, and their motivations for doing so. This fraud CPE also explores fraud schemes in the foreign currency and cryptocurrency markets and note the impact of regulation on financial market fraud.

Highlights

Information-based schemes. Trade-based schemes. Action-based schemes. Closing price manipulation schemes. Spoofing-based fraud. Cornering schemes. Misleading customers schemes. Fraud in specific financial markets. The impact of regulation.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

Auditors, CPAs, CEOs, and other accounting professionals.

Objectives

Identify the various types of financial market fraud schemes. Specify how a reporting entity can improperly alter its financial statements. Identify the impact of forward dating and back dating stock options. Specify the ways in which an investment advisor can scam his or her clients.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Steven Bragg, Western CPE

Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.

Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).

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Non-Member Price $67.00

Member Price $58.00