Internal Control and Fraud Prevention Course

Name: Internal Control and Fraud Prevention Training Course
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Connect fraud-risk governance, assessment, preventive and detective controls, analytics, monitoring, and remediation in one operating file.

Internal Control and Fraud Prevention Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: London, Rome, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Geneva, Istanbul and more
Next session: 26 – 30 October 2026, London
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Internal Control and Fraud Prevention Training Course is a one-week advanced course for internal control, finance, audit, compliance, fraud-risk, operations, and governance professionals who leave with an Internal Control and Fraud Prevention File. The course connects organisation-level fraud-risk governance with process controls, indicators, investigations interfaces, and remediation. Participants assess schemes, map controls, test evidence, analyse exceptions, and report residual exposure. Agile Leaders Training Center presents fraud prevention as a coordinated control and monitoring discipline.

Who Should Attend

Internal-control functions responsible for control design, ownership, documentation, and effectiveness
Finance and operations functions responsible for transaction integrity, approvals, assets, and reconciliations
Compliance and ethics functions responsible for anti-fraud policy, reporting channels, and case coordination
Fraud-risk functions responsible for programme governance, assessment, prevention, detection, and monitoring
Internal-audit functions responsible for independent evaluation without assuming management responsibility
Data and assurance functions responsible for indicators, analytic tests, exceptions, and evidence

The course assumes participants already design, operate, monitor, or assure business controls and leaves out introductory bookkeeping, forensic investigation technique, legal advice, and promises that controls eliminate fraud.

Departments and Industries

The course supports internal control and fraud prevention across:

Finance, operations, internal control, compliance, ethics, risk, audit, and investigations liaison functions
Financial services, healthcare, energy, technology, and telecommunications organisations
Manufacturing, retail, logistics, construction, and professional services
Education, nonprofit, public-interest, and development organisations
Procurement, sales, payroll, treasury, inventory, projects, and third-party management

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply fraud-risk governance and accountability principles
Build an organisation-level fraud risk assessment
Analyze schemes, incentives, opportunities, and controls
Evaluate preventive and detective control design
Use indicators and analytic tests for monitoring
Prioritize remediation and assurance reporting

Course Agenda

Day 1: Fraud Risk Governance

Fraud Risk Management Programme Structure
Board, Management, Control, and Assurance Roles
Anti-Fraud Policy and Ethical Expectations
Risk Appetite, Escalation, and Reporting Lines
Fraud Risk Governance Maturity Assessment

Day 2: Fraud Risk Assessment

Objectives, Processes, and Fraud Risk Universe
Scheme and Scenario Identification
Incentive, Opportunity, Rationalisation, and Capability Factors
Likelihood, Impact, Velocity, and Existing Controls
Residual Fraud Risk and Response Priorities

Day 3: Prevention and Detection Controls

Control Environment and Management Override
Segregation of Duties and Approval Architecture
Access, Master Data, Reconciliation, and Asset Controls
Reporting Channels and Whistleblowing Interfaces
Preventive and Detective Control Matrix

Day 4: Analytics and Response Interfaces

Fraud Risk Indicators and Data Requirements
Exception Rules and Anti-Fraud Analytic Tests
Alert Triage and Documentation Controls
Investigation Referral and Evidence Preservation
Root Cause and Control Failure Analysis

Day 5: Monitoring and Remediation

Control Testing and Sampling Plan
Programme Monitoring and Self-Assessment
Corrective-Action Ownership and Verification
Fraud Risk Reporting to Management and the Board
Capstone Exercise: Internal Control and Fraud Prevention File

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to practise fraud-risk control decisions:

Suggested activity: develop fraud scenarios for procurement, payroll, revenue, inventory, and third-party processes
Suggested activity: map preventive and detective controls to schemes, owners, evidence, and residual exposure
Suggested activity: design analytic tests and triage exceptions without treating every anomaly as fraud
Suggested activity: present control failures, root causes, remediation, and assurance conclusions to leadership

FAQs

Who does internal control and fraud prevention training suit, and what does it assume?

Internal control and fraud prevention training suits experienced control, finance, operations, compliance, fraud-risk, audit, governance, and data functions and assumes responsibility for designing, operating, monitoring, or independently evaluating business controls.

How does internal control and fraud prevention differ from fraud investigation training?

Internal control and fraud prevention focuses on governance, risk assessment, preventive and detective controls, indicators, monitoring, and remediation, while fraud investigation training focuses on case planning, interviews, evidence examination, attribution, reporting, and referral.

What belongs in a fraud risk assessment?

A fraud risk assessment should record objectives, schemes, actors, incentives, opportunities, consequences, likelihood, impact, velocity, existing controls, control owners, evidence, residual exposure, responses, and monitoring requirements.

How should management override risk be controlled?

Management override risk should be addressed through authority limits, independent approvals, system access controls, journal and adjustment review, conflict declarations, exception analytics, board oversight, protected reporting routes, and follow-up on unusual decisions.

How do data analytics support fraud prevention?

Data analytics support fraud prevention by testing complete or targeted populations for defined anomalies, trends, relationships, duplicates, overrides, timing, access, and threshold breaches, then routing exceptions through documented triage and investigation criteria.

Conclusion

Participants take back an Internal Control and Fraud Prevention File containing a governance map, fraud risk assessment, scheme library, control matrix, indicator catalogue, analytic-test plan, monitoring scorecard, and remediation tracker. The file connects fraud scenarios with accountable controls and evidence. It helps teams strengthen prevention, focus detection, coordinate referrals, verify corrective action, and report residual exposure consistently.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Berlin	Week 34, 2027 23 – 27 August 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Phuket	Week 34, 2027 29 August – 2 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Manama	Week 35, 2027 5 – 9 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Madrid	Week 36, 2027 6 – 10 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Muscat	Week 36, 2027 12 – 16 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Barcelona	Week 37, 2027 13 – 17 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tokyo	Week 38, 2027 20 – 24 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Langkawi	Week 38, 2027 26 – 30 September 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Dubai	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Frankfurt	Week 40, 2027 4 – 8 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tbilisi	Week 41, 2027 11 – 15 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,000
Athens	Week 41, 2027 11 – 15 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700
Lisbon	Week 42, 2027 18 – 22 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 42, 2027 24 – 28 October 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Kuwait	Week 43, 2027 31 October – 4 November 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500

Frequently asked questions

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OverviewInternal Control and Fraud Prevention Training Course is a one-week advanced course for internal control, finance, audit, compliance, fraud-risk, operations, and governance professionals who leave with an Internal Control and Fraud Prevention File. The course connects organisation-level fraud-risk governance with process controls, indicators, inve…

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Internal Control and Fraud Prevention Course