Course purpose
This advanced course presents a complete financial-investigation workflow. It integrates mandate design, transaction reconstruction, source-and-application analysis, data validation, evidence control, legal and ethical constraints, loss quantification and decision-focused reporting. The course is designed for professionals who must move from a broad concern to a proportionate and reviewable body of work.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
1. Design a financial investigation that links mandate, allegations, hypotheses, evidence needs, resources and decision criteria.
2. Acquire, validate and analyse financial data while preserving lineage, completeness and alternative explanations.
3. Evaluate legal, ethical, privacy and evidence-handling constraints before selecting investigative procedures.
4. Integrate accounting, transactional and contextual evidence into supported findings, quantified effects and appropriate escalation.
5. Prepare a reviewable investigation file and report that distinguishes fact, analysis, inference and unresolved limitation.
Forensic CPD
