Fraud can be devastating to a business, especially as fraud schemes and financial transactions are becoming more complex and sophisticated with technology advancements. Recognizing the wide variety of threatening internal and external fraud schemes, including asset misappropriation schemes, fraud by vendors and corruption is essential to detecting and deterring fraud.

In this workshop participants will learn how to identify internal and external fraud schemes and understand how to investigate these schemes.

Contract fraud exists when one of the parties involved in the contractual agreement presents information to the other party that is misleading, false, or in any way deceitful. Understanding how this type of fraud occurs.

For this workshop participants will get and understanding contract fraud, and would look at the two types of contract fraud:

The procurement process encompasses all activities relating to the purchase of goods or services by an organization.  It can range from small, one-time purchases to multi-year, multi-million-dollar contracts.  Procurement fraud is any fraud relating to a company purchasing goods, services or commissioning construction projects from third parties.

Given the volume of transactions that are typically carried out through the procurement function, it is one of the accounting cycles most targeted by fraudsters.  Knowing what procurement schemes are most commonly carried out and the ‘red flags’ or potential indicators to look out for will greatly help to mitigate this known risk at your organization. It also increases the likelihood of detecting such schemes, should they be occurring.

Internal Investigations can become complicated if the proper tactics are not used to produce positive results. Oftentimes the person(s) tasked with executing these internal investigations do not have formal investigative skills and or training which can hinger the investigative process and not produce the desired results.

In this workshop participants will learn how to start the investigation by determining the predication, as well get an understanding of the legal elements of Internal Investigations

While most people have participated in interviews aimed at soliciting information of one form or the other, an “Investigative Interview” is quite different and varies even more when it reaches the stage of an active interrogation. We propose to effectively highlight the distinction between each stage and to clearly discern when the transition takes place.

This one-day programmed is designed to provide participants/investigators with theoretical and practical knowledge on how to plan and execute a successful Investigative Interview. Participants will be exposed to some of the basic principles that should be employed when planning and preparing for an interview as well as the fundamentals required when conducting the interview itself.

Money laundering is the illegal process of making large amounts of money generated by a criminal activity, appear to have come from a legitimate source. The money from the criminal activity is considered dirty, and the process "launders" it to make it look clean.

Human trafficking is often a predicate crime to money laundering. It is estimated to be one of the most profitable crimes in the world, with the International Labour Organisation estimating that forced labour generates over USD 150 billion per year.

For this Workshop participants will learn; What are the different types of human trafficking? And will explore the following.