• Analyzing the available data to come up with an effective investigation plan
• Carefully organizing and maintain the evidence
• Responding to fraud complaints in a timely manner 
• Completing the internal stage of the investigation
• Helping the organization achieve its performance and profitability targets

• Financial auditors
• Public sector auditors
• Administrators 
• Managers 
• Consultants

ay 1

• Fraud detection 
• Types of financial statement fraud
• Financial statement fraud detection using text mining
• Duplicate transactions
• Even amounts
• Ratio analysis
• Trend analysis
• Benford’s Law

Day 2

• Procurement cycle
• The most common procurement fraud schemes
• Procurement fraud red flags
• Fraud investigation 
• Forensic investigative techniques 
• Corrective actions
• Containing fraud

Day 3

• Budgeting & costing in project management
• Best practice for cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
• Inputs to the control costs process
• Procurement planning
• Preparing budgets and forecasts
• Classifying costs correctly

Day 4

• Internal control definition according to COSO
• Effective internal control system components
• Internal control framework 
• Limitations of internal control 
• Major deficiency and material weakness 
• Documentation
• Transition –timeline and effort

Day 5

• Auditing
• Preliminary survey, questionnaires, interviewing & other techniques
• Analytical procedures in auditing
• Benchmarking
• Drawing conclusions
• Process mapping, including flow charting
• Evaluate relevance, sufficiency, and competence of evidence