Passionately developing careers since 1958.
Meirc LMS
Back
Financial Fraud: From Prevention to Examination

Financial Fraud: From Prevention to Examination

Why Attend

Organizations are using finance to plan and communicate the outcomes of their strategic and operational activities. One of the significant threats to not achieving organizations' goals is financial fraud. Attending this course will teach you the nature and causes of financial fraud. You will also understand how designing and implementing proper governance and internal controls would mitigate the risk of financial fraud, in addition to best practices in fraud investigation and reporting.

Associations
Associations
Quick Enquiry Call Me Back
Quick Enquiry Call Me Back
Overview
Course Methodology

This course uses interactive techniques, such as Instructor- and participant-led discussions and brief presentations by the consultant and the participants, in addition to demonstrating theoretical fraud topics. The course also features real-life case studies that participants discuss and present.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Define financial fraud and its causes and impacts
  • Identify the major types of financial fraud schemes in organizations
  • Demonstrate knowledge of financial fraud assessment and prevention controls
  • Review financial fraud investigation steps and methodology
  • Identify the legal system that applies to fraud 
Target Audience

Managers, supervisors, and staff from any function, including finance, internal audit, risk, and governance departments, who need to improve their financial fraud understanding and best practices for its prevention and examination.

Target Competencies
  • Fraud risk assessment and management
  • Financial accounting and auditing
  • Data analysis and forensics
  • Legal and regulatory compliance
  • Communication and investigation skills
  • Fraud prevention strategies
Note

This is a hands-on training course using laptops, which will be made available by Meirc Training & Consulting for courses held in the UAE. For courses outside the UAE, participants are required to bring their own laptops with a fully functioning version of Microsoft Excel (Office 365, Excel 2021 or higher).

Course Outline
  • Introduction to Fraud
    • Definitions and related terms
    • The fraud triangle
    • Understanding criminal behavior
    • Corporate governance and ethics
    • Codes of conduct
    • Bribery and corruption
  • Financial Transactions and Fraud Schemes
    • Asset misappropriation
    • Theft of data and intellectual property
    • Consumer fraud
    • Identity theft
    • Financial statements fraud
  • Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
    • White-collar crime
    • Management’s fraud-related responsibilities
    • Fraud risk assessment
    • Fraud risk management
    • Fraud prevention
    • Ethics for fraud examiners
  • Fraud Investigation
    • Interview theory and application
    • Planning and conducting a fraud examination
    • Analyzing documents
    • Tracing illicit transactions
    • Report writing
    • Sources of information
  • The Legal System Governing Fraud
    • Overview of the legal system
    • Individual rights during examinations
    • Basic principles of evidence
    • The law related to fraud
    • Testifying
    • Money laundering
    • Bankruptcy fraud
Associations
Associations
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)

Meirc Training & Consulting is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org

Visit Website Check the Courses
Schedule & Fees

2025 Schedule & Fees

There are no public sessions remaining for the course this year. Please contact us if you wish to have a customized in-house session, or to find out how an additional public session can be scheduled.

2026 Schedule & Fees
Per participant
  • 29 Nov - 3 Dec, 2026
  • English
  • Dubai
  • Venue to be assigned
Fees + VAT as applicable (including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily) Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

Tax Registration Number: 100239834300003

HAVE A QUESTION?
+971 4 556 7214
+971 56 177 0877
🇦🇪
+966 55 356 4371
🇸🇦
[email protected]
Hanaa will help you find what you are looking for.