Training Course: Conducting a Fraud and Risk Assessment
A fraud (and wider Financial Crime) Risk Assessment is an essential part of a law firm's risk management framework.
It is only by identifying the risks specific to your firm that you can develop strategies to manage and reduce them.
Learning topics
- Introduction to fraud, bribery and corruption
- The fraud landscape and scale of fraud
- Common fraud typographies
- Conflicts and corruption
- Fraud red flags and identifying the ingredients of fraud
- Planning a fraud risk assessment
- Stakeholders, gathering information and identifying risks
- Fraud risk logs and terminology
- Scoring/assessing the risks
- Prioritising the identified risk(s)
- Completing a full Fraud Risk Assessment entry
- Action plans for improving
Learning outcomes
- Getting you to think like a fraudster
- Have a wider understanding of the risks to your firm from internal and external sources
- Be able to identify fraud risks and assess vulnerabilities in People, Policies, and Processes
- Understand how to complete a Fraud Risk Register
Speaker
When and where?
Each session is hosted by Paul Stratton of the Fraud Nerd. Paul is a former Police Detective with over 22 years of experience in various roles. These include covert policing and intelligence, counter-terrorism and counter-extremism, undercover policing, and criminal investigations into serious and complex crimes like domestic violence, stalking, violence and abuse against vulnerable people, and sexual offences.
The training session will last in the region of two to three hours, delivered remotely using Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
You can join one of these sessions, or, if preferred, we can deliver a session direct to your team at your offices.
Further information will be available soon, or you can contact us in the meantime to arrange a bespoke training session for you and your team.
