Forensic Accounting and Fraud Control

A fraud investigation is usually lost at the start rather than at the end. Evidence is handled by whoever found the problem, the suspect is interviewed before anybody understands the scheme, and by the time the organisation decides to act the position is unrecoverable. This week works through an investigation in sequence: the indicators, the data, evidence handling, the interview, the report, and then the control that failed. The second half matters, because an investigation that ends in a dismissal and no control change is a fraud the organisation will have again.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Recognise the indicators of the common schemes, in the accounts and in behaviour.
• Plan an investigation, including the decision about when to confront.
• Handle evidence so it is admissible and the chain of custody holds.
• Interview without contaminating the account or exposing the organisation.
• Close the control that allowed it, and verify the closure.

Internal auditors and investigators, finance managers who encounter suspected fraud, risk and compliance officers, and HR staff who handle the disciplinary consequence.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A fraud risk assessment for the delegate's own area, by scheme rather than in general.
• An investigation plan with evidence handling and escalation defined.
• A control remediation plan for one real weakness, with verification.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.