Detecting Financial Fraud through Data Analysis
Fraud indicators in financial data, and the analysis methods that reveal unusual transactions.
Course contents
- 1The fraud triangle and types of fraud
- 2Red flags in the data
- 3Benford’s Law
- 4Analysing duplicates and outliers
- 5Documenting the findings
- 6Building a fraud red-flag tool with AI assistants: duplicate invoices, fictitious suppliers, unusual entries
What you gain from the course
You can spot suspicious transactions in financial data using analytical methods.
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