
Fraud Awareness and Financial Red Flags
- Χρηματοοικ. Ασφαλιστικά Τραπεζικά - Λογιστικά/ Έλεγχος/ Φορολογικά - Νομοθεσία, Νομική & Δικηγόροι
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ
Fraud rarely begins as a proven event. It may initially appear as an unusual transaction, an unexplained override, a supplier-bank-detail change, a late reconciliation, a whistleblowing report, a data anomaly, a control failure or an inconsistent explanation.
This practical workshop enables participants to recognise fraud risks and financial red flags without making accusations, conduct safe first-stage triage, preserve potentially relevant records, escalate concerns appropriately and strengthen the control environment.
Participants learn to move from:
Concern → observable facts → red flags → proportionate risk assessment → authorised escalation → investigation-ready documentation → control improvement
The course treats fraud awareness as a professional, evidence-led discipline. It does not train participants to accuse individuals, determine guilt, conduct unauthorised investigations or make legal, disciplinary or criminal conclusions.
ΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟΥ
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
Acknowledge the difference between error, irregularity, misconduct, fraud risk, allegation, red flag, evidence, investigation outcome and substantiated finding.
Describe common workplace fraud schemes affecting financial and operational processes.
Identify how transaction anomalies, behavioural signals, data patterns, system overrides and control failures may indicate elevated risk without proving wrongdoing.
Recognise the relationship between fraud governance, fraud-risk assessment, preventive controls, detective controls, whistleblowing, investigation protocols and remediation.
Acknowledge the importance of confidentiality, non-retaliation, objectivity, fairness, evidence preservation and authorised decision-making.
Identify fraud-risk exposures within key finance, procurement, payroll, operational and reporting processes.
Recognise financial, operational, behavioural, technology-enabled and management-override red flags.
Distinguish verified facts, allegations, indicators, hypotheses, potentially relevant records and substantiated findings.
Assess control design, operation, override resistance and monitoring effectiveness.
Apply a proportionate first-stage fraud-concern triage process.
Identify appropriate containment, preservation and escalation actions through authorised channels.
Create investigation-ready documentation using factual, neutral and confidential language.
Recommend practical preventive, detective, monitoring and governance improvements.
Respect for confidentiality, privacy, employee rights, evidence integrity, due process and need-to-know handling.
ΣΕ ΠΟΙΟΥΣ ΑΠΕΥΘΥΝΕΤΑΙ
This course is designed for professionals who identify, process, approve, monitor, review or oversee financial and operational activity, including:
Finance directors, financial controllers, accountants and finance managers.
Internal auditors, external auditors, risk professionals and compliance officers.
Procurement, payroll, accounts-payable and accounts-receivable professionals.
HR, operations, administration and business-support managers.
Treasury, commercial-finance and business-finance professionals.
Senior managers, directors, board members and audit-committee participants.
Small-business owners and managers responsible for financial controls.
Non-financial managers with approval, budget, procurement, inventory or people-management responsibilities.
Recommended prior knowledge: Participants should understand basic approvals, reconciliations, expenditure controls, financial reporting and reporting responsibilities.
ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΕΣ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ
Training Outline
Fraud Risk Is a Governance and Business Risk
Scope, professional boundaries, common misconceptions and the difference between concern, indicator and finding.
Diagnostic exercise: classify a control weakness, red flag, allegation and substantiated finding.
Fraud Lifecycle, Language and Common Schemes
Govern–Assess–Prevent–Detect–Respond–Learn lifecycle, FRAUD framework, fraud terminology and common schemes.
Fraud-scheme mapping within a purchase-to-pay process.
Financial, Process, Technology and Management-Override Red Flags
Procurement, payment, payroll, expenses, financial reporting, management override and technology-enabled fraud.
Red-flag challenge: classify issues by risk, urgency and validation requirement.
Behavioural Signals, Fraud Opportunity and Control Effectiveness
Behavioural safeguards, privacy, fraud opportunity, DOME control-strength test, segregation of duties and override resistance.
Control-gap review: identify how weaknesses may enable fraud or concealment.
Fraud-Risk Assessment and Data-Led Detection
Risk scoring, likelihood, detectability, velocity, collusion, TRACE analytics governance and anomaly validation.
Analytics-design exercise: select and govern proportionate tests for payments, payroll and journals.
Triage, Containment, Escalation and Documentation
Immediate-risk matrix, whistleblowing, confidentiality, preservation, concern records and authorised escalation.
Documentation exercise: complete a factual concern record and preservation plan.
Progressive Integrated Fraud Case Study
CedarBridge Services: vendor anomalies, possible system-migration explanations, payment changes, weak controls and whistleblowing concerns.
Groups prepare a proportionate escalation and control-response recommendation.
Reporting Concerns and Control Improvements
Escalation wording, audit-committee reporting, remediation priorities, ownership and monitoring.
Draft a concise management or audit-committee concern summary.
Individual Fraud-Judgement Assessment
Individual application of FRAUD, DOME, TRACE and professional boundaries.
Analyse a scenario and recommend safe action.
Controlled Flexibility
Facilitator-led case debrief, clarification or policy-specific discussion.
Resolution of key judgement questions.
Training Style
The programme is designed to equip participants with practical knowledge and strengthen their professional capabilities through a highly interactive and application-focused learning approach. Delivery combines short, targeted lectures with case studies, practical examples, facilitated discussions, and realistic workplace simulations.
Through structured discussion, peer exchange, and facilitator feedback, participants will apply the concepts, tools, and techniques introduced throughout the programme while strengthening their analytical thinking, problem-solving, professional judgement, and decision-making skills. By the end of the programme, they will be better equipped to respond confidently and effectively to comparable workplace challenges.
CPD Recognition
This programme may be approved for up to 3 CPD units in Accounting and Auditing. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership. This training course may be approved as an external activity under the new ACAMS recertification category ”non-ACAMS credits” for up to 3 CPD units. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). To read more about the non-ACAMS credits policies and eligibility criteria please click here.
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- € 130.00
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