This course is dedicated to reviewing leading edge concepts for conducting fraud risk assessments and scenario analysis.
The topic of fraud — whether it relates to awareness and prevention techniques, fraud auditing, recent fraud in corporate America, or the criminal mind — continue to be on the radar of investors, shareholders, and regulators. Yet execution of holistic fraud risk assessments can often be a very difficult task.
COSO 2013 places stronger emphasis on the need for strong evaluation and risk assessments for Fraud. Auditors and Compliance professionals debate the proper form and depth needed for such assessments. Organizations will need to become more transparent with their fraud assessments and scenario analysis. It is incumbent on individuals within the internal audit, compliance and legal field to ensure management accepts this role with the intent of full transparency.
Note: Information within this course comes from readily available public domain documents and is utilized by the trainer as a supplement for relaying the course content.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Exposure to internal controls
Advanced Preparation: None
Learning Objective
- Identify the fraud dilemma.
- Discover how to assess risk considerations and where to start.
- Identify the preparation steps before initiating a fraud risk assessment.
- Discover how to perform a Macro Fraud Risk Assessment.
- Recognize the elements of a Micro Fraud Risk Assessment.
Last updated/reviewed: March 6, 2024
(114) Reviews
(75 rating)Thanks, great training with updated samples and explanation, thanks.
This course grounds you in ethics and brings it to reality with the clever use of case studies, both theoretical and real-world.
A lot of the slides are read verbatim in this training which makes the slides as valuable as the presenter.
Enjoyed this course on the GAAP presentation of the financial statements. Was good to refresh myself on it and see some of the standards.
Thanks Lynn! I've been dealing with difficult stakeholders this year and trying to get a message through felt almost impossible. This course helps by providing tactics to deal with difficult people and I will be definitely testing them out during my daily activities.
Ethical issues are sometimes downrated, what is not correct. Great presentation.
The course provided the pros and cons of pivot tables in a succinct manner. The instructor also provided good tips on how to get the most out of pivot tables.
I like the way the instructor went step by step and pointed out the tools in the tool bar and side bars to use when using power BI.
The instructor provided key points on how to prepare for video calls and meetings.
Principles of Ethical Team Leadership is an important part of corporate culture. learning the fundamental principles will increase the value of the company and benefit everyone involved
This course is excellent for new auditors and a great refresher for seasoned auditors.
It's hard to distill the entire history of ethical thought down into a 2 hour business course, but I give credit to the instructor for making the effort.
Great Course and tells you how to deal with situations with difficult people
When preparing for an Internal Control Certificate, it's essential to choose resources that align with the specific certification or credential you are pursuing and to dedicate sufficient time to study and practice. I would recommend this course.
great overall course covering multi-state withholding, giving the information necessary for an employer to work towards an error-free payroll.
I think the instructor does a great job explaining the information and providing good examples.
The excitement of the content combined with the enthusiasm and insight of Mr. Wasny make this course, along with those he presents on AI, the most inspiring and motivational I've experienced on this platform.
The course is well organized and easy to understand!
Provided real-world examples and was an interactive class with practical exercises.
Quit extensive course that gives a good idea about basics of fraud trends and methods for prevention in modern world
The course covers a significant amount of material that is often uncommon such as disposal of divisions and going concern treatments. It's well done and interesting.
Course was very detailed oriented and had knowledge that needs for accounting and prepare F/S
This is a high-level overview of information that all CPAs already know, but it's a great refresher. Highly recommend
Great course covering many important concepts and history behind evolution of current accounting standards
Good overview of 2023 fraud trends and beyond, how account takeover happens, including the detection and prevention strategies for account takeover.
Excellent course as always from Ms. Lambert! Covers all the main areas of pay deductions and includes helpful calculation examples as well.
The course provides a great overview of fraud, impacts to the Company, and ways to mitigate that risk and how Internal audit can aid and assist in this process.
Good information that should be revisited frequently.
I thought I understood pivot tables fairly well. Just found out how little I really knew!! Awesomely informative course; can't wait for the next level courses.
The lecture is very organized and easy to follow. I am experienced user of Pivot table so the Final exam was not difficult, yet I have learned some functions I did not know. I really enjoyed it!
This is a very comprehensive overview of the IPO process from the CFO perspective. It is particularly helpful to know the flow of the process from beginning to end, what parties are involved and their respective responsibilities during the IPO process as well as what one needs to pay attention and any related rules should be considered.
Valuable and practical insights into key considerations for every internal audit function.
This excellent course helps and encourages to use healthy scepticism to detect cash related fraud cases.
The last question of Exam does no appear to have correct answer.
Good material and overview of SAAS metrics. Sound was a little low could be increased but otherwise good
The questions in the quiz and test are hard to understand and at times do not make sense grammatically.
It was very well structured, well-paced and easy to follow training course. Structuring the course in segments as well as offering a continuous play option is perfect for any learning style. The examples given were good.
This is an excellent course from Lynn Fountain! The real-life scenarios and current event considerations bring life to the topic.
"How should the control environment be viewed by organizations?" <--Based on the expected answer, this question is written extremely poorly & is misleading.
Excellent course. So much detail and is good reference material to have available.
The course was adequate but suggest you relook at the questions. The use of not in the questions is very confusing even for the most experienced person. Also your question in the final exam on incentives is poorly worded
Great Class - but the Keys to managing an effective internal audit function video link is broken
materials are 6 years old. Google algorithms have changed and continue to change. Course should be updated. Would have liked to have seen discussion abour White Hat and Black Hat SEO.
Thank you for another great course that introduced the connection of COSO 2013 and fraud.
This was too much information at once. The test should have been broken out by session.
Your courses have all been so wonderful, so informational, and so thorough--in short, greatly appreciated by me! Thank you for sharing your expertise, your wealth of knowledge, your inclusion of examples! I have greatly enjoyed reading and listening to all of your lectures thus far.
The course was interesting and thorough She was fun and iteresting in her presentation
Well detailed and properly explained concepts on fraud risk assessment. This is a good introduction into Fraud risk assessment and sets the expectations for beginners
This was a very confusing one. I finally passed when I answered one question which seemed again what the material and I understood. It was question six. I disagree that it should be answer A. A going concern is considered when a company has issues about going a year from the opinion letter date.
Great addition to illumeo. Really helps keep up with the Ethics requirement in a timely manner.
Good review course. This was a solid refresher for something I have been away from for some time.
Thank you, this course was great. I felt like it covered everything necessary and provided me with the tools to pass the exam at the end. Overall I would recommend this to a colleague.
Excellent advice and insights. I highly recommend for any finance/accounting leader.
Exam questions too many! they should be broken to three or four parts!
Interesting content on how to capitalize assets, slides need more details on resourses.
The explanation is very clear, straight to the point.
An important aspect that companies forget to look at because cyber attacks are seldomly experienced by them. Great refresher on how to react to cyber attacks
This was one of the best courses I took - I really liked the fact that you could follow along with the instructor using the worksheets provided!
Indepth information about fraud risk assessment and how to apply it in our respective discipline
This course provides a good overview of factors to consider before joining a non-profit Board. I found the instructor's accent a bit thick, so I had to go back on a couple of slides to figure out exactly what he said.
Comprehensive, informative and well delivered course.
After having been away from auditing for many years, this was an excellent refresher course.
I really appreciate this course and its help in career growth and overall help in gaining knowledge in who we are, who we want to be and what our passions are.
This course provided a helpful overview of the importance of internal controls. It also provided reminders of how vital 'hotlines' are in detecting fraud.
great course for definitions and basic understanding of forensic accounting
GREAT synopsis for documenting internal controls. This course really refreshed some points that I am pursuing in my organization.
Good discussion on recognizing revenue under the new revenue standard.
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This came pretty easy to me, as I'm a CPA by license, but layman at heart.
Really liked discussion around the two types of leadership and the characteristics of each. Good guidance from presenter in terms of focusing on one of two qualities to improve over the next 6 months. Overall a very practical session that anyone can benefit from.
This was a good overview of the internal audit function, with all relevant parties and within the department.
great overview for non-sales tax experts. Great examples to support the rules.
Good Information
Great Course
Very informative
I would have liked to have more examples and some of the stuff was same as covered in part 1.
Excellent overview!
Very comprehensive and extremely thorough.
great overview
Engaging and knowledgeable presenter.
Nice
Clear and concise - great examples provided. A great course for any experienced auditor.
Great intro to IA department
Very professionally done!
More information on analytics to identify misuse.
Questions are vague
Excellent course
Too much time spent discussing the presenter's qualifications
Good details
Good description of the audit and report
Very detailed and easy to follow.
Test questions were not captured in the presentation materials.
Did not like questions about Apple. Numbers not in front of me.
Very helpful in understanding the maturity model.
Course moves a bit slow
It was a very good course
excellent refresher
Excellent Course!!
Short and to the point. Good information for intermediate users of QBO
Great material. Too fast to follow at times.
Bullet points - not the entire conversation or presentation - Please!!!!
Content is excellent but video is poorly shot.
This course was excellent!
I believe the exam answers are not correct and should be reviewed.
l like learn about this course and subject We will follow full courses for an intense love thank you very much
It would be better if the items were shown in motion (vs. the slide with numbers). Also the sound quality was a bit poor.
A quick refresher of excel tips that was definitely worth my time.
Clear and concise information, but not the most engaging presentation.
You will learn about how operating lines of credit works and what to watch out for. Very informative & reference material.
Well organized presentation of a very important topic
This course provided more in-depth and hands on job information as compared to the COSO series.
Very helfpful for future financing avenues and IPO considerations.
Every company out there should make the effort to do a Fraud Assessment as it is not a matter of IF Fraud will happen at your company - but when (or has it already happened?). Lynn provided a great background on what companies should do to get the ball rolling.
Great course and very relevant to email / org / management of time
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