course goals

This definitive, comprehensive and intensive one-day workshop will arm participants with:

1. an in-depth, powerful grasp of benford's law - a powerful tool widely used to detect fraud in the financial sector;
   

2. a solid overview of Microsoft Access/IDEA/ACL as a data interrogation tool for large data sets; and
   

3. state-of-the-art data analysis technologies for audit reviews
   

workshop scope

1. Applying Benford's Law to verify authentic data (census, purchasing cards, retailer)
   

2. Applying Benford's Law to verify fraudulent data (arizona, daily sales, payroll)
   

3. An outline of data profile, basic digit tests and number duplication using case studies
   

4. Understanding largest subsets, relative size factor, samesamesame and samesamedifferent using case studies
   

5. Earnings reports and Enron's numbers or Beethoven's 6th symphony
   

6. Continuous monitoring, Four-D approaches and more
   

7. Architecture of Microsoft Access: a demonstration of data analysis tests in Microsoft Access/IDEA/ACL
   

8. Wrap-up
   

who should attend

1. Internal/External auditors
   

2. Company directors
   

3. Financial controllers
   

4. Bank procedures auditors
   

5. Corporate treasurers
   

6. Dealers
   

7. Traders
   

8. Accountants
   

9. Fraud managers
   

10. Risk management practitioners
    

11. Treasury personnel and dealers
    

12. Middle office and back office staff

Uncovering Deception

Interviewing and Interrogation

Kinesic Interviewing

Fraud Investigations

Anti-Money Laundering

Operational Risk Management

Continuous Monitoring Techniques

Benford’s Law and Data Analysis

Behavioural Profiling

Derivatives: Legal Risks and Documentation

Banking Secrecy

Regulatory Updates