Fraud Risk Management & Public Sector Investigations Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the nature, drivers, and common forms of fraud risk within government and public-sector environments.
• Assess fraud risks across procurement, contracting, finance, payroll, assets, grants, revenue, and third-party activities.
• Develop fraud risk assessments that identify vulnerabilities, risk indicators, potential impacts, and control weaknesses.
• Evaluate preventive and detective controls designed to reduce fraud exposure and strengthen institutional integrity.
• Apply practical methods for identifying fraud indicators, unusual transactions, suspicious behavior, and potential misconduct.
• Develop structured procedures for receiving, assessing, triaging, and escalating fraud allegations.
• Apply investigation planning techniques to define scope, objectives, methodology, resources, and evidence requirements.
• Evaluate documentary, financial, electronic, and testimonial evidence while maintaining appropriate evidence-handling procedures.
• Apply professional interviewing and questioning techniques within public-sector investigation environments.
• Develop clear and objective investigation documentation, findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Strengthen coordination between investigation, internal audit, compliance, legal, finance, procurement, and management functions.
• Develop an integrated Fraud Risk Management & Public Sector Investigations framework by the end of the course.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain the key concepts, drivers, and forms of fraud affecting public-sector organizations.
• Identify fraud vulnerabilities across major government financial, operational, procurement, and service processes.
• Conduct structured fraud risk assessments and develop risk-based fraud control measures.
• Evaluate preventive and detective controls and identify opportunities to strengthen control effectiveness.
• Recognize fraud indicators and assess suspicious activities, transactions, and behavioral patterns.
• Establish structured processes for receiving, assessing, documenting, and escalating fraud allegations.
• Develop investigation plans defining scope, objectives, methodology, responsibilities, evidence requirements, and timelines.
• Collect, assess, preserve, and organize documentary, financial, electronic, and testimonial evidence appropriately.
• Apply effective interviewing and questioning techniques during investigation activities.
• Prepare objective investigation reports that clearly distinguish evidence, findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Identify control weaknesses and develop corrective and remediation measures following investigation findings.
• Develop an integrated framework for fraud risk management and public-sector investigations suitable for organizational implementation.

Course Outline