Certificate Course On Forensic Accounting And Auditing

Certificate Course on Forensic Accounting and Auditing is offered by BSSS (The Bhopal School Of Social Sciences). Since Bhopal School of Social Sciences inception, the College has adopted an integrated and comprehensive approach to learning in order to achieve academic excellence.

This vision has been the cornerstone of our growth in the last 50 years as we gradually adopted new programs, initiated innovative learner strategies, and took bold steps to go beyond the prescribed curriculum with a view to transform knowledge into affirmative action.

Course Outcomes:

• Understand the meaning and various types of fraud under the Companies Act, 2013
• Analyze different types of tools used in fraud detection
• Develop the knowledge for detecting & investigating fraud
• Understand the Indian legal framework relating to evidence of fraud
• Learn the scope of forensic audit from a global perspective
• Overview the concept of digital forensics

Career Prospects:

• Students will know about the meaning and various types of fraud as per India’s legal environment.
• This course helps students to understand the basics of forensic accounting and fraud detection mechanism.
• Students shall have the skills and knowledge about the prevention, detection, and investigation of fraudulent activities and will be ready to assist professionals in the field.
• They have good career prospects in accounting, finance and audit related offices especially fraud detection and prevention mechanisms.

Course Content:

• Introduction to Forensic Accounting
• Nature & Importance of Forensic Accounting
• Scope of Forensic Accounting
• Introduction to Audit; Forensic Audit
• Fundamentals of Forensic Audit: Nature, Definition, Need and Objectives, Importance
• Forensic Accounting and Forensic Audit
• Introduction to Fraud: Concept, Meaning and
• Definition under the Companies Act, 2013 and BNSS (Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita 2023)
• Fraud and Forensic Audit
• Elements of Fraud
• Kinds of Frauds
• Corporate Frauds: An Insight
• Live Cases
• Directors’ Responsibilities
• Tools for handling Forensic Audit
• Investigation Mechanism
• Field Investigations
• Methods of Investigations
• Red Flags & Green Flags
• and more