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Assessing Fraud Risks: Understanding Common Fraud Schemes ON DEMAND

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7.0 Credits

Member Price $203.00

Non-Member Price $233.00

Overview

Auditing can often feel like navigating through a maze, with the ever-present risk of fraud lurking around each corner. It’s a world where missing even the smallest detail can lead to significant repercussions. Understanding the intricacies of fraud is crucial for every auditor, but the complexity of fraud schemes and the legalities involved can be overwhelming. Our fraud course is the solution to this conundrum. Taught by Marshall Romney, this course provides a thorough walkthrough of the auditing process, emphasizing the identification and analysis of fraud. You’ll learn about real-life fraud cases, which will sharpen your skills in detecting and understanding fraud patterns. The course also delves into critical legal requirements for auditors, ensuring you’re well-versed in SAS No. 82, 99, and AU-C 240. By the end of this course, you’ll be adept at organizing and implementing effective audits, fully aware of your roles and limitations as an auditor.

Highlights

Fraud studies and statistics. Fraudulent financial reporting risk factors. Misappropriation of assets. Auditing. Identifying and assessing risks. Assessment results response. Revenue recognition fraud. Disclosure failures. Studying fraud schemes.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, auditors, accountants, controllers, and financial professionals.

Objectives

Identify the types of misstatements that occur when fraud is committed. Identify fraudulent financial reporting risk factors. State the risk factors associated with the misappropriation of assets. Cite the types of inquiries and analytical procedures that should be made to obtain information to identify fraud risks. Identify responses to risks that threaten the nature, timing, and extent of the audit procedures, and the misappropriation of assets and fraudulent financial statement fraud risks, and more.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Marshall Romney, Marshall B Romney & Assoc

Marshall Romney, CPA, is a Professor of Accounting at Brigham Young University. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from BYU and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. He was an auditor with a national CPA firm. Marshall has published many articles and manuscripts in academic and professional journals and is the coauthor of eight books. He is the recipient of numerous research grants for CPA firms, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the American Accounting Association. Marshall has presented papers at professional conferences and has given many speeches and radio and television interviews on the topic of fraud and white-collar crime. He has also developed computer training courses for CPA firms, IBM, the FBI, and several universities. Marshall is a member and past president of the Information Systems/Management Advisory Systems section of the American Accounting Association. He was an advisor to the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting.

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Non-Member Price $233.00

Member Price $203.00