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This course helps students understand why financial fraud persists, how it can be detected through data analysis, and what needs to be done to prevent it. Through selected readings, videos, podcasts, documentaries, professional resources, and fraud case studies, students will learn to identify major fraud schemes, red flags, fraud triangle, behavioral rationalizations, weak controls, and poor governance. Student will apply fraud analytics to real-world situations and consider how accounting control, governance, and ethical safeguards can help detect and prevent future fraud.
Corequisite is BUS 340