Excel Best Practices for Forensic Accounting and Financial Tracing

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Course Description

Forensic accounting utilizes accounting, auditing, and investigative skills to examine the finances of an individual or business. It provides an accounting analysis suitable to be used in legal proceedings. Forensic accountants are trained to look beyond the numbers and deal with the business reality of a situation.

In this CPE webinar, co-founders of Valid8 Chris McCall and Tod McDonald will introduce Excel best practices to accelerate the forensic analysis of financial evidence.

The audience of this CPE course on accounting will learn how to build upon their existing Excel skills and solve for the quality, speed, and cost of preparing evidentiary financial data for an investigation.

Chris and Tod in this CPE course will use examples from real-world case studies of Valid8 to illustrate how professionals can enhance their work in Excel to gain insights that are backed by evidence.

This online CPE webinar is designed for professionals who:

Need to understand how money has moved by reviewing financial transactions from evidence.
Have a solid grounding in Excel.
Would like to gain efficiencies with reviewing large sets of transactions.

Learning Objectives

To analyze the different potential flaws of data ingress that can undermine your Excel analysis.
To discuss how to work with transfers between accounts so the money flows are readily identifiable.
To explain best practice analytics within Excel, such as Trending Reports and Stratification.

Recommended For

This CPE course is recommended for CPAs, CFEs, CFFs, IAPs, QIALs, Internal as well as external auditors, Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and other professionals who need to understand how money has moved from evidentiary records.
This CPE webinar is recommended for accountants, auditors, and other professionals who desire to learn Best Excel Practices for Forensic Accounting and Financial Tracing.

Who Should Attend?

Accountant
Accounting and audit managers/practitioners
Accounting Managers
Accounts Director
Auditors
Chartered Professional Accountant
Chief Accounting Officer
Director of Accounting
Entrepreneurial Accountant
Forensic Accountant
Forensic Auditor
Fraud & Forensic Auditor
Fraud Analyst
Fraud Detection Specialist
Fraud Examiner
Fraud Investigator
Fraud Professionals

Course Qualification

Webinar Qualifies For

1 CPE Credit for Master Analyst In Financial Forensics (MAFF)
1 CPE Credit for Internal Audit Practitioner (IAP)
1 CPD Credit for Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA Canada)
1 CPE Credit of Accounting for Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)
1 CPE Credit of Accounting for Certified Public Accountants (CPA-US)
1 CPE Credit for Certified Management Accountants (CMA)
1 CPE Credit of Accounting & Auditing for Certified Internal Auditors (CIA)
1 CPE Credit for Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
1 CPD Credit for Certified Financial Forensics (CFF)

Presenter

About Presenter

Chris McCall

Co-Founder & CEO Valid8 Financial

As CEO and founder, Chris leads VALID8’s vision, strategy, and execution. Prior to founding VALID8, Chris led marketing as Chief Marketing Officer for NexGen Storage where he built a world class marketing team around strategic market analysis and product management.

Chris started his career as an Electrical Engineer designing systems for Boeing 747’s. Identifying the need to modernize the engineering design data infrastructure, he revamped how system design software could leverage large datasets more effectively. Passionate about extracting value from big data systems, Chris took on several product roles with start-ups acquired by F500 companies HP and SanDisk.

About Company

Valid8 Financial

www.valid8financial.com/

World class financial investigations need to be fast, accurate, and comprehensive. Valid8 extracts and reconciles banking transactions from any PDF statement file in less than 24 hours. Transfers between accounts and legal entities are identified to compress data preparation time and simplify asset discovery and finding fraudulent transfers.

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As an accredited provider of Continuing Professional Education in the United States, myCPE online learning platform, courses, and webinars meet the requirements set forth by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), an IFAC Member Organization, as well as the National State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), both IFAC Affiliates. As well as it has been approved by NASBA, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Certified Financial Planner Board (CFP Board), California Tax Education Council (CTEC), Society of Human Resource Professional (SHRM), Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) and many more.Therefore, we believe learners can count their professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities on myCPE, including taking on demand courses and attending live webinars, toward fulfillment of their verifiable continuing education requirement as CPD-IES7 requirements. However, if there is any question, we recommend that the individual learner confirm with his/her professional licensing organization before taking myCPE courses for CPD-IES7 credit.
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Ratings and Review

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Chuck Nguyen, CPA (US)

Jan 13th, 2022

Great webinar!

Sallie Adams, CPA (US)

Jan 13th, 2022

Great overview of a ton of data to be analyzed.

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Cedrick Euron Draper, ACCT/BK, Tax Pros

Dec 19th, 2021

Overall the experience was good

Kelly Gray

Dec 16th, 2021

Good content

Tim Bradshaw, CPA (US)

Jan 14th, 2022

It was a good session overall but I joined hoping to learn some new Excel techniques and a fair amount of the session was dedicated to the Valid8 software.