The duration and depth of topics to be covered can be customised according to participants’ needs.

• White-Collar Crime
• Fraud Detection, Investigation, & Prevention
• Psychological Criminology

• This course focuses on the operational definition of corporate fraud, and the relationship between the size of corporate fraud and its impact on business.
• This course further discusses the typology of offences and the understanding of the effects of corporate fraud on the business sector.
• In addition, tools to combat corporate fraud by either the law enforcement agencies or the industry itself will be identified.

• This course provides an overall view of the methodolody for estimating the cost of employee embezzlement for the corporate organisation.
• This course also examines the way fraud is committed, warning signs of fraud, and profiles of potential fraudsters.
• This course further identifies possible defence systems against internal fraud, ways to react when a perpetrator strikes, and skills to select the most appropriate defence system for the organisation.

• This course addresses the insurance fraud risks faced by insurance companies in Malaysia, the impact they create in the banking and insurance sectors, and the effects of large corporate fraud on the insurers.
• This course also provides the best means of recovery and prevention of future losses for the insurance companies in Malaysia, and discusses the extent to which the regulatory checks put in place by Bank Negara Malaysia are able to stem insurance fraud.

• This course emphasises the different types of business frauds that can be perpetrated using computers, along with the related fraud of identity theft.
• Topics include e-commerce and internet fraud, money laundering, assessing risk and detecting computer-related fraud, detecting and deterring identity theft, as well as management, legal, ethical, and privacy issues related to technological advances.

• This course addresses the various ways in which fraud can be perpetrated in an organisation’s financial statements, and measures that can be taken to detect it.
• The fraudulent measures studied include the recording of premature or fictitious revenues, the failure to record expenses, and the capitalisation of expenses.
• Additional topics include earnings management, improper classifications and disclosures, and problems with cash flow reporting.
• In addition, this course examines cases where fraud was detected and the red flags of fraud.

• This course discusses the major types of individual and organisational white-collar crime.
• Individual white-collar crime includes acts such as fraud, embezzlement, identity theft, computer crime, and bribery and corruption, while organisational white-collar crime includes acts such as health and safety violations, large scale fraud and political corruption.
• The course examines the dynamics, the social causes, the legal responses and the prevention of white-collar crime.

• This course offers an overview of economic crime by providing the definition, types, trends, and causes of economic crime.
• Issues in various industries including banking, insurance, credit card, and telecommunication will also be examined.
• In addition, this course also explores the fraud control from a cross-industry perspective.
• Prevention and detection strategies and methodologies to combat economic crime will also be introduced.

• This course is a continuation of the Economic Crime unit, with the emphasis mainly on the analysis of real cases of economic crime.
• Strategies and methodologies learned from the Economic Crime course will be demonstrated in analysing real cases of economic crime.
• Ethical issues in economic crime detection, investigation, and prevention will also be discussed.

• This course focuses on criminal, civil, and administrative courses of action concerning a variety of financial wrongs: healthcare fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, mail and wire fraud, RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations), money laundering, frauds upon the government, environmental crimes, seizure of assets, etc.

• This course examines the meaning and interpretation of money laundering laws in Malaysia.
• The “Anti-Money Laundering Act 2001” and related cases in Malaysia will also be discussed.

• This course examines the historical roots of organised criminality.
• Structural models are compared for understanding emerging groups.
• Special attention is paid to dependencies and cooperation among ethnicities.
• Additionally, there will be a review of the activities associated with organised strategic aspects (ie profit-oriented ventures such as counterfeiting, extortion, credit card fraud, prostitution, smuggling, drug trafficking) and tactical issues (ie activities that support the criminal organisation such as violence, money laundering, corruption, recruitment).

Polygraphs or Lie Detectors
 

• The course focuses on various aspects of polygraph theories.
• The instrumentation of, and psychological and physiological principles related to, polygraphs also will be discussed.
• This course also addresses the usage of polygraphs and their reliability.
• Demonstrations of the effective use of polygraph equipment also will be included.

The Usage of Polygraph Technology in Corporate Organisations
 

• This course examines questions such as: “what is a polygraph?” “how reliable is the instrument,” and “who uses it and how does it operate?”
• Demonstrations of the effective use of polygraph equipment will also be included.

Industrial Espionage
 

• This course provides a framework for understanding and protecting against industrial espionage.
• In addition, it reviews the history of industrial espionage and current methods of information elicitation, and explores counter-espionage options to defend organisations.

• This course is designed to provide managers, investigators, and forensic accountants with an appreciation of the extent and nature of fraudulent activity.
• Common methods to detect and prevent fraud in business are studied.
• Fraudulent financial statements and the misappropriation of assets are considered.

• This course addresses various investigative and auditing techniques essential for the prevention, detection and resolution of fraud problems.

• This course addresses the multi-facets and causes of fraud.
• It also discusses ways to identify the fraud indicators and “red flags” in one’s department, and techniques to spot potential fraudsters.
• This course further introduces approaches to develop and implement effective preventive measures, such as techniques of neutralisation and fraudulent information detection during the recruitment process.

Ethics in Fraud Examination
 

• This course analyses the professional responsibilities and limitations of auditors, investigators, lawyers, and fraud examiners.
• In addition, ethical considerations of a consultancy and conduct as an expert witness are discussed.
• The confidential relationship between a fraud examiner and a client are studied.

Fraud Detection: Developing a Strategy to Identify, Manage, and Fight the Risk of Fraud

• This course identifies the threat of internal fraud by emphasising the role of pre-employment screening, leveraging internal and external intelligence, building fraud detection models, and introducing risk-based approach as a counter-fraud tactic.
• This course also focuses on key elements of fraud prevention strategy, the importance of incorporating fraud prevention into the corporate culture, and ways to measure the efficiency of the fraud prevention strategy.

Commercial Fraud Detection and Prevention: A New Perspective

• This course introduces the policy in commercial crime prevention, the role of the corporate in commercial fraud prevention, and the significance of working with the law enforcement agencies and other authorities/ministries.
• This course also addresses the current trends in commercial fraud, the statistics and common methods of fraud, modus operandi of syndicates, manipulation of the documentary and financial system, and techniques to detect commercial fraud in everyday business operations.

Fraud Detection and Prevention: Implementing a Framework to Safeguard Your Business

• This course provides an overview of the intensity of damage fraud has created in the current business world.
• It addresses different types of fraud and ways to identify “red flags.”
• Fraud prevention and detection strategies also are discussed in this course.

Introduction to Forensic Accounting
 

• This course examines the principles of accounting, which includes the abuse and misuse of accounting procedures, and the use of accounting in the investigation of commercial crime.
• In addition, strategies and tactics essential to the fraud examination process also will be examined.
• This course further introduces the topics of financial statement analysis, interpretation and scrutiny of financial records and documentation, reporting irregularities, trace techniques, fraud examination approaches, legal rules and statutory construction pertinent to accounting practices.

Fraud Investigation
 

• This course introduces the requirements for and composition of a fraud investigation enforcement team, and the requirements of the police force who handle white-collar crime investigation.
• In addition, the most effective method for the employers to investigate internal and external fraud, the appropriate actions when confronting employees suspected of engaging in fraudulent activities, and the suggested ways for the employers to deal with the outcome of the fraud investigation also will be discussed.

• This course is designed to provide managers and investigators with an appreciation of proactive investigation and effective tools to detect and punish criminals.

Electronic Data Investigations
 

• This course examines the topics of fraud investigations and the use of various electronic data investigation techniques, including computer forensics, data analysis, data mining of accounting information, and public record searches utilising the Internet and commercial service bureaus.

• This course focuses on the theory and practice of internal auditing and its role in investigations.
• Investigative and audit principles and techniques relevant to selected fraud situations in case settings also are discussed.

IT Auditing and Investigations
 

• This course introduces the current IT audit and investigative software and processes used to explore contemporary accounting systems and databases.
• In addition, the contemporary electronic and other means of surveillance in use today are discussed.

• This course focuses on the computer-aided data analysis techniques for detecting and investigating fraud cases, issues related to the collection and use of digital evidence, and collection of data from electronic devices.

Fraud Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques
 

• This course addresses the purpose and types of the fraud interview.
• In addition, the interview skills and methodology, dos and don’ts of interviews, types of witnesses, physical setting considerations, legal considerations in interviews, the kinesis of interviewees, and the interview process also are examined.
• This course further elaborates on methods of conducting confession interview and the key components of a confession.

• This course examines the significant role of Internal Audit in fraud risk management, and the important working relationship between risk managers and heads of security in deterring fraud.
• In essence, this course creates an awareness of fraud management for overall internal control enhancement.

• This course is designed to provide managers and investigators with the skills and knowledge to enable them to develop an effective anti-fraud policy.
• The comprehensiveness of the prevention plan is crucial for having effective anti-fraud strategies in place.

• This package is designed to help senior managers in developing an effective integrity plan.
• It is in line with the government's call for all corporate sectors to develop a corporate integrity plan as outlined in the National Integrity Plan.
• This plan will address the issues of fraud, corruption, abuse of power, and unethical acts in a comprehensive and concerted way.

• This course examines the methods of creating a unified critical infrastructure protection platform between different industry sectors, the approaches for the private sector and the public to work together to enforce critical infrastructure protection, and the effectiveness of the coordination between the law enforcement and government agencies in combating fraud and financial crimes in Malaysia.
• This course further discusses the approach that Malaysia takes to protect itself from financial crimes, particularly those that are linked to subversive international organisations (ie terrorist groups).

• This course introduces the part that psychology plays in all facets of the police, courts, and correction institutions.
• The course probes the interaction of all these components and the role of psychological interaction in these components.
• The myth and reality of a Forensic Psychologist also are discussed.

• This course addresses the common mental illnesses of white-collar criminals.
• Types and characteristics of these mental disorders also are discussed.

• This course examines the behavioural aspects of both street and white-collar crimes.
• Specific topics/crimes also are discussed according to the interest of the participants.

• This course covers the various theories and implications of criminal acts in relation to behaviour discipline, including causative and scientific aspects.
• Crime is analysed from an interdisciplinary study of social problems and from social responsibility perspectives.

• This course analyses criminal behaviour and its underlying motivations from an investigative as well as a psychological perspective.
• The techniques involved in this field can be used to help solve crimes and identify offenders.

• This course focuses on a theoretical overview of the nature and meaning of social deviance.

It examines how sociologists, social psychologists, and criminologists analyse deviant behaviour.