Corporate fraud. Internal audits and investigations - free course from the Russian School of Management, training 16 hours, date of December 7, 2023.

Corporate fraud. Internal audits and investigations
• Protecting the company from corporate fraud.
• Types of corporate fraud. Fraud triangle concept. The most typical scenarios of corporate fraud by employees. Signs of corporate fraud on the part of employees. Scenarios of corporate fraud by executives.
• Qualifying signs of fraud. Direct and indirect signs of corporate fraud. Signs of corporate fraud identified based on the analysis of relations with business partners within the framework of civil law relations.

• Signs of corporate fraud identified based on analysis of employee behavior. The concept of fraud symptoms in relation to human factors. Psychological techniques used to calculate fraudulent schemes. Building relationships between employees. Security services and personnel to detect and suppress corporate fraud.
• Indirect signs of corporate fraud associated with weaknesses in internal control (lack of separation of duties, lack of physical security, lack of independent checks, lack of appropriate authority, lack of relevant documents and records, etc.).
• Protection of the company's economic interests from fraudulent transactions. General action plan to combat fraud (prevention, detection, investigation). Identification of positions in the company with fraudulent risks. Key ways to eliminate corporate fraud opportunities.
• Organizational, personnel and control measures to prevent corporate fraud. The relationship between the company's security service and government investigative and law enforcement agencies in connection with initiation of criminal cases for acts classified under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud).
• Procedures for conducting internal audits and financial investigations.
• What is an internal audit and in what cases is it carried out. Reasons for carrying it out. Drawing up an inspection matrix.
• Features of conducting internal audits on the most typical illegal actions of company employees. The procedure for interaction between divisions of the enterprise in the process of conducting an internal audit. Procedural norms that must be followed during its implementation.
• Use of a polygraph (lie detector) when conducting internal corporate investigations (inspections). Contact or non-contact polygraph, which is better? Legal and organizational side of the issue. Is it possible to fool a polygraph?
• Documentation of internal audit results. The ability to use the results as evidence of the employee’s guilt. Formation and procedures for storing nomenclature files with inspection results.
• Financial investigations in the company's contractual work. What is Forensic accounting? Audit of regulations for the implementation of civil legal relations. Analysis of instructions for contract work.
• Analysis of decision-making procedures in contract work. Methods for calculating signs of affiliation of an organization’s employees with companies that are parties to contracts.
• Collection and analysis of information on the company's counterparties for the presence of economic risks. Identification of dubious counterparties, non-standard and economically unjustified business and financial transactions. Tax risks. Identification of abuses during bidding and competitions.
• Documentary analysis of a company's civil law relations from the perspective of calculating signs of corporate fraud. Analysis of financial documents from the perspective of empirical laws (Benford's law). Signs of document forgery.
• Analysis of the procurement system and price reality. Unscheduled inspections (audits) of inventory and company property.
• Anti-corruption examination of contracts. Analysis of contracts concluded by the company from the perspective of economic risks, as well as economic feasibility.
• Checks of company employees holding positions with corruption (fraud) risks. Analysis of the powers and performance of an employee in the company. Conversations and interviews.
• International experience and corporate standards for protecting companies from financial crimes. International anti-fraud acts (UK Bribery Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act).