Curriculum

An exam-aligned syllabus, taught the way investigations actually run

Ninety-two live hours across four sections, each anchored to the CFE exam blueprint and reinforced with case files, red-flag drills and full-length mock exams.

Section 0128 live hours

Financial Transactions & Fraud Schemes

  • Accounting and internal control fundamentals
  • Asset misappropriation: cash, billing, payroll, expense schemes
  • Corruption: bribery, kickbacks, conflicts of interest
  • Financial statement fraud and earnings manipulation
  • Money laundering, trade-based fraud and sanctions exposure
  • Cyber-enabled and digital payment fraud
Section 0220 live hours

Law

  • Legal systems and the fraud examiner's role
  • Criminal versus civil proceedings
  • Rules of evidence and admissibility
  • Individual rights, privacy and data protection (UK GDPR, India DPDP Act & UAE law)
  • Testifying as an expert or fact witness
  • Bribery Act 2010, India PMLA and UAE anti-fraud/AML frameworks
Section 0326 live hours

Investigation

  • Planning and scoping a fraud examination
  • Interview theory and admission-seeking techniques
  • Tracing illicit transactions and source-and-application analysis
  • Digital forensics and electronic evidence handling
  • Data analytics and red-flag detection
  • Report writing that survives cross-examination
Section 0418 live hours

Fraud Prevention & Deterrence

  • Why people commit fraud: the fraud triangle and behavioural drivers
  • Ethics for the anti-fraud professional
  • Corporate governance and the three lines model
  • Fraud risk assessment and control design
  • Whistleblowing channels and speak-up culture
  • Building and measuring an anti-fraud programme

How each section is assessed

Weekly practice sets

Timed question banks mirroring the exam's format and difficulty curve.

Applied case work

Real scheme scenarios: build the evidence trail, draft findings, defend them in class.

Full mock exams

Two invigilated mocks with section-level diagnostics and a personal remediation plan.

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