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Internal Controls for Fraud Prevention

Format: On-demand

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The material in this course is designed to help individuals recognize the need for effective preventive controls, those accountable for effective internal controls and the framework for designing an effective control environment.  Individuals will also be able to identify specific fraud schemes and the controls designed to prevent them. This online self-study course will also explore organizational controls and inherent limitations of internal controls. 

Learning Objective(s):

  • You will learn how to:
  • Ascertain why preventive controls are critical
  • Identify fraud risk and the types of controls needed to mitigate fraud risk
  • Recall the structure of the COSO Internal Control Framework and interpret its various elements
  • Recognize specific fraud schemes and determine which preventive controls can be applied to prevent each scheme
  • Identify preventive controls for an organization as a whole
  • Recognize limitations to an internal control environment

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