Learn essential techniques and strategies for identifying and preventing financial statement fraud, safeguarding transparency and compliance.
This course equips accountants with the knowledge and tools needed to detect and prevent financial statement fraud. Participants will explore common types of financial fraud, including revenue recognition manipulation, asset misstatements, and improper disclosures. Through case studies, they will learn fraud detection techniques, analyze red flags, and apply industry-standard frameworks like the fraud triangle to assess fraud risk.
Additionally, the course emphasizes creating an ethical company culture and implementing effective internal controls, helping participants protect organizational integrity and foster stakeholder trust.
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Chartered Professional Accountant
Brian Anderson, CPA, has more than 15 years of experience in accounting, taxation, and business advisory services, with particular expertise in partnership structures and professional service firms. Since obtaining his CPA designation, he has developed extensive practical knowledge across a broad range of accounting matters, including partnership taxation, adjusted cost base (ACB) calculations, GST/HST compliance, financial reporting, and business structuring. Brian has advised on all stages of the partnership lifecycle, from initial formation and ownership structuring through partner admissions and withdrawals, to partnership dissolutions and reorganizations. His experience includes helping businesses evaluate the use of corporations, holding companies, management corporations, and other related entities within partnership arrangements to achieve commercial and tax objectives. He holds a degree in Accounting with a minor in Law from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). In addition to his professional expertise, Brian has developed a global perspective through his exposure to international business practices, including time spent in Japan studying different approaches to business operations and governance.
Podcast host
Company owner and principal consultant of an award-winning HR Consulting Firm. Award-winning Host of Top 50 Self Improvement podcast -The Big Idea Big Moves Podcast - featuring guests like Tia-Clair Toomey, Sangita Patel and Heather Monahan. Equity partner in the Sports Talent start-up Ruth Talent LLC. Top 50 "Dads in Podcasting" - Podcast Magazine. Specialties: Employee engagement, campus recruitment, turnaround projects, performance management, talent acquisition and development (i.e., Recruitment and Selection, leadership development, team development, coaching and team development, change management, succession planning and talent mapping, podcasting, whole life success.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
