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Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigations Certification (FAFIC)

Make a Significant Impact in the Fight Against Financial Fraud.

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December, 2024

CPA/CFF, CFE, CIA
30 Hours 
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What You’ll learn

Unlock the world of possibilities with the Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation course to join the glorious journey of protecting the economic engine. Effectively manage fraud risks with the implementation of control measures and expert-tested best practices for various organizations. Avoid ethical and legal pitfalls with guidance from real-world examples. Create a holistic approach toward fraud investigation for your practice. Demonstrate a commitment to excellence in fraud investigation, and risk risk management to excel in this niche area of expertise.

Get Deeper Understanding of:

  • Basics of fraud investigations such as engagement, and investigation reports.
  • Process of fraud investigation, gathering evidence, & writing effective reports.
  • Fraud investigations for various entities, and their special requirements.
  • Avoid pitfalls and ethical and legal issues that may arise in fraud investigations.

Recommended For:

  • This course is designed to serve the requirements of CPAs, CFF, CFE, Fraud Professionals, External Auditors, Forensic Accountants, and others whose key responsibilities involve investigations.
  • Students and aspirants with keen interest, excitement, and enthusiasm for fraud detection, investigation, and prevention can provide valuable insights and directions for maintaining their interest. It can also provide them further insight into if they want to create a niche further in this direction.
  • Accountants, staff of accounting firms, small business owners, entrepreneurs, young professionals, and others who want to have a successful business may take an interest in these courses and improve their practices to take advantage of learning opportunities from this certification course.

Why should you take Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigations Certification (FAFIC) with myCPE?

Resources included

  • Handout PDFs for every Module
  • Glossary/Key Terms for every Module
  • Q&A directly with instructors.

Career Opportunities

  • Fraud Risk Manager
  • Fraud Analyst
  • Fraud Investigator
  • Fraud Risk - Head
  • Risk Assurance Consultant
  • Fraud Prevention Specialist

Value Addition to your skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Analytical skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Communication skills
  • Planning and Organizational skills

Courses

Course Title Time
2 Hours
  • To identify various methods and resources for conducting online investigations.
  • To describe resources and methods for conducting online investigations.
  • To identify ethical and legal issues that arise in online investigations.
2 Hours
  • To discuss the process of fraud investigation and methods for gathering evidence.
  • To recognize ethics requirements for forensic accountants.
  • To describe how to write an effective report disclosing the results of a fraud investigation.
2 Hours
  • To describe how to write an effective report disclosing the results of a fraud investigation.
  • To describe how to present evidence effectively with visual aids.
  • To explain how to testify effectively at deposition and trial.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation and identify issues specific to small business investigations.
  • To explain the legal issues involved in fraud investigations and analyze best practices for gathering and presenting evidence
  • To gain practical skills for working with small business owners and stakeholders, and explore real-world examples and case studies to deepen your understanding.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to fraud investigations for retail stores.
  • To analyze how to conduct fraud investigations that are legally compliant and accurate.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to fraud investigations for restaurants and bars.
  • To analyze fraud investigations in restaurant and bar settings.
2 Hours
  • To discuss the fundamental procedures integral to conducting fraud investigations.
  • To identify unique challenges and intricacies involved in fraud investigations within estate and probate cases.
  • To analyze the distinctive complexities inherent in fraud investigations about homeowner associations (HOAs).
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to government investigations.
  • Identify common examples and red flags of government fraud.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a property management company fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to investigations of property management companies.
  • To analyze common areas of investigation, potential pitfalls, and legal considerations, as well as provide practical insights and real-world examples.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation for a not-for-profit organization.
  • To identify issues specific to investigations of not-for-profits.
  • Identify and mitigate unique risks and challenges specific to not-for-profits.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to investigations in estate & probate cases.
  • To discuss challenges faced by fraud investigators in probate and estate fraud.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to fraud investigations for religious organizations.
  • To discuss the potential and some of the legal issues involved in conducting fraud investigations of religious organizations.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to fraud investigations for securities fraud cases.
  • To examine the processes, procedures, and best practices involved in legal proceedings.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting an insurance fraud investigation and identify issues specific to investigations of insurance fraud cases.
  • To recognize potential pitfalls involved in conducting insurance fraud investigations.
  • To analyze the legal issues and common challenges that arise when working with insurance companies in fraud investigation cases.
2 Hours
  • To review the basic procedures for conducting a fraud investigation.
  • To identify issues specific to investigations in divorce cases.
  • To investigate common areas like hidden assets, hidden income, business valuation issues, and false accusations.
Disclaimer : Before attending any course, please verify that the credit details align with your qualification requirements. This certificate is designed to help you acquire new skills and knowledge, which may or may not fulfill specific compliance criteria. While we have made every effort to ensure our courses adhere to compliance standards, we recommend reviewing the details to confirm applicability for your needs.

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Fraud Investigation Insights

“Fraud investigation was a new area for me and my curiosity led me to an interesting subject. The instructors have done a great job of sharing great insights into the basics and key strategies. I will definitely take a shot at a fraud assignment if that comes my way. Do attend this course.”

Keren  Lee
Keren Lee, CPA (US)

Fraud Investigator

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Effective Fraud Investigation Techniques

“For the types of entities included in the fraud investigations gives a comprehensive feeling. It really covers most of the types of fraud engagements one can come across. The investigative techniques were quite effective. Online investigations were particularly interesting. I liked the flow and the structure of the course. It is very informative and serves as a good refresher.”

Mildred  Fischer
Mildred Fischer, CFF

Fraud Examiner

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Valuable Refresher for Fraud Professionals

“This course is an insightful refresher course for fraud professionals like me. It is well-organized. Particularly inclusion of investigative techniques based on the type of organization helps to understand the change in the strategies. I feel it is a great value and useful for the professionals. I recommend it.”

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Erin Theriot, CFE

Fraud Investigator

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Frequently Asked Questions

Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation cover a vast area to ensure that you have overall guidance. It covers the basics of fraud investigation, their engagements, and creating fraud investigation reports. With the technology factors dominating certain types of investigation, if the need arises how to conduct an online investigation is also covered. There are numerous types of business and non-business entities and conducting fraud investigations for every one of them requires a different approach. This certificate course attempts to cover many of them. It also includes a diversity of cases such as securities fraud and insurance fraud to provide you an idea of how you can take charge of investigations in such cases. Thus, the Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation certification tries to give you a bird's eye view of the basics and variety of complexities that a professional may have to encounter.

The Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation Certification course ensures that you have a strong overall approach and understanding of forensic accounting and investigations basic for fraud. It provides you with an overall aptitude to deal with the complexities covering different types of business and nonbusiness entities. It is going to help attendees take insights into dealing with clients at the time of engagement, dealing with the type of entities, and specialized cases. It enables you to take online investigations and create effective reports for them. Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation Certification helps you prepare to deal with all key complexities.

Certificate course is created by a qualified and experienced instructor(s). myCPE Certificate Courses includes Self-study Courses. Most of the courses are in the form of On-demand Videos. The Self-study Video courses in Certificate courses may be Live recorded presentations converted into Self Study (On-Demand Videos).

You can take your time and attend the course at your own pace. You can take exam unlimited time. So, don’t worry, if you are not able to pass an exam. You will be getting a chance to attend the exam again.

After completion of each course of this Certification Programs, you will be able to download a certificate with the course title and number of hours. Certificates, as well as your study records, are stored for life and you can access them anytime. Certificates are valid proof for your continuing education credits and you can also add it as an additional designation.

Once you register you will have complete access to all the courses of this Certification Programs. The self-study format allows you to access the material online 24x7 and study at your own pace.

As per NASBA guidelines, you have one year from date of purchase of your certificate to complete each program. After completion of each course, you can attend final exam any time and get CPE Credit instantly. You can retake the exam multiple times without any additional charges.

Course have minimum passing score of 70% in the final exam and you can take multiple attempts of the said exam.

Our video player tracks & stores the watch time and will show you in the progress bar. But you make sure that you don’t fast forward or manually try to move the progress bar. If you have fast forwarded the video or tried to manually move the progress bar of the video. System wouldn’t capture your watch time. So please, let the video go on its own. However, being on-demand video you can pause and play and whenever you want and you can watch it in pieces. It will pick up from where you left off. So, for a self study courses you will have to
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2. Answer all the review questions correctly. The review questions are at the bottom of the same page where you are viewing the course video.
3. Once you have watched the whole video and answered all the review questions, the Final Quiz will open up. You need to score more than 70% in the Final Quiz to avail your CPE credit. Multiple attempts are allowed for submitting Review and Final Quiz questions.
4. Once you have completed the Review and Final quiz questions, you shall be able to download the credit certificate from the ‘My Certificates’ section. Kindly ensure you have allowed Multiple File download from your web browser to download all certificates.
5. You can download individual certificate from your "Account" as well as from this page once you complete a particular courses. Also, you can download "Consolidated Certificate" from the package page or from your account.

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