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PRINCIPLE
CLIENT FOCUS
INTEGRITY
INTELLIGENCE
INDEPENDENCE
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Table of Contents
4 | About the Factbook & Contact Information
5 | Overview
6 | Our People
6 | Profile of Tommy Seah
7 | Our Services
8 ~ 9 | Fraud Investigation
9 | Consultancy Service
10 ~ 11 | Professional Coaching
10 | Professional Coaching
11 | Fraud Prevention Workshop
12 | Our Clients
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About the Factbook
This CFE-In-Practice Factbook has been developed as a reference for the
corporations and other interested parties. It is designed to provide an introduction to CFE-In-
Practice and to be a convenient compendium of information to assist readers in their
understanding of the company.
Beginning in 2002, the Factbook will be updated at least annually to reflect updated
information.
Contact Information
For questions about CFE-In-Practice, please contact us at:
Email: enquiry@cfe-in-practice.com
As illustrated above, we have incorporated into the top margin of most pages of the Factbook
the URL addresses for CFE-In-Practice web pages where you can access additional or
downloadable information. Simply type the URL into your web browser’s address box, or click
on it in the online version of the Factbook, to access this information.
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Overview
ABOUT CFE-In-Practice
“CFE” stands for Certified Fraud Examiner. A Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) is a specialist
in the detection and deterrence of a wide variety of white-collar crimes - from discovering
employees or executives who misappropriate company assets to assisting investors who are
defrauded in the course of commercial transactions. All Certified Fraud Examiners must
meet the rigorous criteria for admission to the Association. Thereafter, they must exemplify
the highest moral and ethical standards and must agree to abide by the bylaws of the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' Code of Professional ethics.
OUR CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY
Our commitment to our clients is to evaluate the cost and value of various programmes with
design options to best suit our client's needs; assuring that the design can be constructed to
meet all budget and schedule expectations. It is essential that our approach to consultancy
and training maximise the financial benefits, quality and satisfaction for our Client.
OUR MISSION
We offer a complete range of financial training and consultancy services, and we accomplish
these with efficiency and insight.
We anticipate the industry needs and predict them so that we can equip the industry with the
very latest knowledge. Our Professional Coaching service and training programmes are
designed to give participants a real insight into various disciplines. Research and consultancy
work keep us informed.
Apart from offering consultancy and training programmes, CFE-In-Practice plays a pivotal role
in helping corporations both in Singapore and overseas. Our in-depth training analysis can
help you improve your business quality and service. Tailored business solutions can enhance
employee performance. Accreditation of in-house training courses and programmes can add
stature and impetus.
Company-specific seminars
Accreditation of in-house training programmes
Our Professional Coaching services help identify and resolve performance
enhancement issues such as:
Interviewing skills;
Investigation techniques;
Effective report writing skills;
technical financial training;
customer care and selling;
management and leadership;
interpersonal and communication skills;
team building;
train the trainer;
enhance staff motivation and retention.
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OUR PEOPLE
Our people are our foundation. We have attracted and retained experienced, competent, and
highly trained professionals who are skilled in the disciplines of financial management and
risk management. Their broad base of experience that we are able to assemble a team to
undertake nearly any business challenge in any location.
PROFILE OF TOMMY SEAH
TOMMY SEAH CFE ( Texas, USA)
Tommy Seah is on the American Board of Regents of The Association Of Certifired Fraud
Examiners. He is the first and the only Asian elected to this high office.
He is a Certified Fraud Examiner. CFE is a post graduate professional qualification
recognized by the USA Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI in there recruitment of
auditors for combating fraud. His services in providing technical training are much sought
after by numerous banks in the region, including Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. Tommy's
previous experience includes systems based auditing in an American International Bank,
where he was the Senior Regional Auditor responsible for the Bank's audit in the Asia Pacific
region. He has also held the top executive position of Chief of Internal Audit in a prime
offshore bank where his audit duties cover the Singapore and Hong Kong operations of the
bank. His brief covers all areas of the bank's audit of operations and EDP systems. He also
has practical working experience in the Operations Department of a foreign bank.
Tommy holds professional graduate diplomas from two Banking Institutes including the
prestigious Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK). He is the only Singaporean that scores a
quot;Double Firstquot; in the English accountancy examination and was consequently awarded the
F.W. Perks prize in Financial Management. Besides being a qualified member of two U.K.
professional accounting bodies, he is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (USA)
and Information Systems Audit And Control Association (ISACA). In this region, Tommy
Seah is the only Singaporean who holds the membership grade of Senior Associate of
Malaysian Institute of Bankers.
For the past twenty years, Tommy has trained numerous bank auditors and consulted by
numerous lawyers in the region. Financial Instruments, Foreign Exchange, Money Market
Options, Derivatives and Swaps are his special interests. He devotes a substantial portion of
his time in research work and is presently available on retainer to selected established banks
for loss prevention consultancy. Today, he is still very much a hands-on accountant, auditor
and investigator.
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OUR SERVICES
Using a matrix of automated and manual techniques, massive experience, intelligence and
analytical expertise, we identify where losses and problems - however caused – are occurring
or could occur; how profits can be optimized and assets secured through:
Corporate Fraud ...arguably the best corporate fraud investigation team in the
Asia
Detecting all forms of corporate fraud in various industries
Investigating and resolving the suspicions of dishonesty, professionally and quietly
Optimizing and recovering losses
Management Consultancy Service ...independent ears and eyes
Providing a source of specialist advice to top managers
Responding rapidly to problems, world wide
Training and Publications ...improving skills and confidence
Providing the knowledge to make internal teams more effective
Improving the quality and standing of audit, security and control
Profit Optimization - the ultimate health check
Preventing, detecting and investigating losses and problems, however caused
Optimizing revenues
Adding between 2% and 15% of turnover to profits, without re-engineering or
disruption
Optimizing control systems and resources
Optimizing and securing knowledge and intellectual capital
Optimizing and securing pension funds
Business Intelligence ...seizing opportunities and avoiding problems
Providing intelligence on markets, competitors, risks, compliance and much more
Enabling opportunities to be seized and problems avoided
Telling you what no one else can in the industry
Due Diligence ...avoiding unpleasant surprises
Monitoring and screening important commercial decisions, acquisitions, compliance
and employment in the industry
Ensuring that entrepreneurial objectives are achieved in the industry
Business Reconstruction and Debt Recovery
Ensuring that credit strategy is optimized
Tracing and recovering debts and hidden assets
Providing alternatives to creditors’ liquidations
Risk Analysis ...avoiding the inevitable
Identifying risks in high technology and other specialist areas
Developing Control Self Assessment packages
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FRAUD INVESTIGATION
Crime comes in many forms. Fraud sometimes finds its way into the banking world, and the
damage it can do is sadly extensive. Businesses, and indeed, individuals are destroyed by
this crime. CFE-In-Practice, takes fraud very seriously. We are the Certified Fraud
Examiners in practice. We are licensed by the Singapore Police (License No. 02496) to
provide investigation service. We are the fraud specialists who can help.
WHAT DOES A CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINER DO?
A Certified Fraud Examiner is responsible for resolving allegations of fraud, obtaining
evidence, taking statements, writing reports, testifying to findings, and assisting in the
prevention and detection of fraud and white-collar crime.
WHO UTILIZES CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINERS?
Most corporations as well as governmental agencies in the United States and throughout the
world employ certified fraud examiners. CFE is one of the three preferred and recognised
qualification by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America in its
recruitment for auditors. Certified Fraud Examiners are charged with investigating a wide
variety of allegations of fraud, primarily within their own organizations. Certified Fraud
Examiners can also provide investigative and consulting services to law firms, business
enterprises, and others in the area of litigation support, fraud investigation, and fraud
prevention.
Fraud occurs when all the following exist:
an individual or an organisation intentionally makes an untrue representation about
an important fact or event;
the untrue representation is believed by the victim (the person or organisation to
whom the representation has been made);
the victim relies upon and acts upon the untrue representation;
the victim suffers loss of money and/or property as a result of relying upon and acting
upon the untrue representation.
Every corporation needs a channel through which employees, suppliers, contractors and
other third parties can report irregular activities, free from victimisation or repercussions.
The primary means of detecting fraud will and should always remain a sound system of
internal control and regular internal audits. These measures should be supplemented with a
fraud-reporting channel where information regarding fraud, theft and corruption is collected,
and decisive corrective and protective steps are taken to limit the bank's exposure to further
or future loss.
Most companies have embraced the concept of a crime-reporting channel through which
interested parties can report irregular activities by staff, outside individuals or companies
towards their organisation.
The costs involved in installing such a channel have proved prohibitive to many companies, or
the cost involved is not considered justified in light of their perceived problem. CFE-In-
Practice has provided a solution to this problem by providing an effective cost efficient service
as an alternative to the products currently on the market.
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Investigative Service:
Collecting and safeguarding evidence
Tracing witnesses and suspects
Compiling affidavits and taking statements
Surveillance
Interviewing and questioning witnesses and suspects
Facilitating polygraph examinations
Facilitating expert document examinations
Verifying witness testimony
Compile criminal and disciplinary cases
Competent testimony in disciplinary, civil or criminal proceedings
Preparing comprehensive financial profiles on individuals and companies
Asset tracing & recovery
Money laundering investigations
Frauds can, and do, last for many years. Often it is not the existing level of internal controls
that uncovers them but some external factor.
Banks will never be able to eliminate fraud. You have limited time, and you cannot review
everything all of the time.
However, some controls are critical - failure to implement them can cost you and your
company.
We help banks identify these key controls and implement cost effective monitoring of them.
We work with corporations and government divisions to develop pro-active detection
methods, to improve the skills of staff in recognising fraud patterns, and to help senior
management form planned responses to potential problems.
Contact us for a confidential consultation with no obligation. Email us: cfe@cfe-in-
practice.com
HOW CAN I RETAIN THE SERVICES OF A CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINER?
To secure the services of a Certified Fraud Examiner in Asia, contact Tommy Seah, C.M.C.,
C.F.E., M.IIA at tommy@cfe-in-practice.com or e-mail us at enquiry@cfe-in-practice.com to
discuss your needs.
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CONSULTANCY SERVICE ... independent ears and eyes
Whether our client is a large corporation, a small, privately owned company or an individual
company CEO, CFE-In-Practice tailors its services to meet the client's specific needs. Our
objective is to establish and maintain high standards of performance and professionalism by
providing unique and cost-effective services in the following areas:
To identify inefficient operating practices and provide recommendations for the
implementation of electronic, operational and administrative control systems specifically
designed to minimize future losses.
Every organisation needs a channel through which employees, suppliers, contractors and
other third parties can report irregular activities, free from victimisation or repercussions.
Other specialised services:
Irregular Loss Analysis: to confirm or refute the existence of fraud or other serious
irregularities.
Loss Quantification and Investigation: to quantify actual and consequential loss and
damages and to identify those responsible for the fraud.
Asset and Perpetrator Tracing: to trace and identify the proceeds of fraud or other assets of
the perpetrators. To locate individuals and entities and trace laundered or otherwise
concealed funds or assets against which recoveries may be realized.
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PROFESSIONAL COACHING
CFE-In-Practice has been privileged to provide Professional Coaching service that have
attracted senior delegates from both the specialists and general management staff in the
banking industry. Bringing together the regulator and the regulated, the governmental and
institutional, the investor with the issuer, and the intermediary with the principal, our
Professional Coaching service have been specifically targeted at executives who have
responsibility for their organisation’s financial integrity or global strategy.
Working closely with banks in the region and responding to the demands of the participants,
CFE-In-Practice has developed a systematic and comprehensive loss/fraud prevention
Coaching Programmes. Specifically designed for both central and commercial banks, it has
been constructed to be both intensive and interactive and underpins the realisation that staff
responsible for loss/fraud prevention should be experts.
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FRAUD PREVENTION WORKSHOP
INTRODUCTION
The management of economic crime investigations and prosecuting offenders is a dynamic
business demanding that all personnel receive intensive and progressive training. The basis
of this training centre on the principle that to be successful requires the ability to understand
pro-active and re-active methodologies, to have the ability to apply highly specialized
investigative skills and to be comfortable with state-of-the-art technology. Subject matter
includes introduction to fraud detection, audit strategies, conducting interviews, writing
investigative report, fundamentals of financial statement fraud and why auditors fail to detect
fraud.
This programme is intended for accountants and all who are interested in preventing fraud as
investigation managers and all those who operate a quot;team approachquot; to crime solving. The
lessons learned and the experience gained will also serve to improve participants' approach
to good investigation leadership generally.
OBJECTIVES
1. Introduction to Fraud Detection
Differences between investigative audit / litigation support / forensic accounting
Strategies and skills for successful investigations
2. Audit Strategies for Detecting Fraud
Designing the investigative audit procedure
Identifying the fraud from the company's accounts and other fraud indicators
3. Conducting Interviews/Internal Investigation
How to conduct the interview and gathering the right evidence, avoiding the legal
pitfalls?
4. Writing the Investigation Report
5. Fundamentals of Financial Statement Fraud
6. High Profile Fraud / Why Auditors Fail to Detect Fraud?
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
1. Introduction to Fraud Detection
Principles of fraud
Costs to the organization
Ethical considerations
Audit’s fraud responsibilities
Skills successful fraud auditors need
2. Audit Strategies for Detecting Fraud
How to incorporate fraud detection into your audit program?
Specific audit steps designed to detect fraud
Using ARP risk assessment to identify fraud indicators
Building audit steps around fraud schemes
Fraud concealment strategies and audit steps for uncovering them
Sampling approaches and fraud detection
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3. Where Fraud Can Occur in Your Organization
Traits of those who commit fraud
Types of frauds: embezzlement, bribery, corruption, and fraudulent disbursements
How fraud is concealed in your organization?
4. Conducting Interviews Within the Fraud Audit
Four successful interview approaches
A proven, nine-step fraud interview methodology
Using kinetics to spot deception: interpreting body language
Interviewing dos and don’ts
Who should conduct the interview?
5. Conducting the Internal Investigation
How to write the investigation plan?
Step-by-step, the entire investigative process
Gathering the right evidence for your case
Avoiding some of the legal pitfalls
6. Writing the Fraud Audit Report So It Gets Read
Report content
Ensuring the audit process leads to the audit report
Areas to consider when writing the fraud finding
Disseminating the report
7. Fraud-Related Internal Controls
Building controls around the fraud scheme
Introducing QMS to prevent future fraud losses
Fraud prevention controls in the expenditure cycle
Selling the controls to management
Fraud prevention theory
8. Fundamentals of Financial Statement Fraud
Typical fraud schemes
Balance and income statements
Using analytical review/ratio analysis to identify fraud indicators
9. High-Profile Frauds
What went wrong?
Why auditors failed to detect the fraud?
How to avoid audit failures?
10. Fraud Audit Case Studies and Analysis
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OUR CLIENTS
Monetary Authority of Singapore, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Auditor General Office, Attorney
General Office, SembCorp Logistics Ltd, Merrill Lynch International Bank, Fortis Bank, BNP
Paribas, ChinaTrust Commercial Bank-India, Den Norske Bank, RZB-Austria, Bank Central
Asia-Indonesia, Bank of China, Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, Pengurusan
Danaharta Nasional Berhad, Credit Lyonnais, Rabo Bank, Citibank NA, Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi, Norinchukin Bank, Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd, Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (South East Asia) Limited, Bank of
Ayudhya,MeesPierson Asia Limited, Perwira Affin Bank, United Overseas Bank Ltd, Hong
Leong Finance, Bank Brussels Lambert, Pernas Trading Sdn. Bhd, Kwong Yik Bank Bhd,
Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Bhd, Pertanian Baring Sanwa Bhd, P.T. Indonesia
Finance & Investment Co, Southern Bank Bhd, United Malayan Banking Corp Bhd, Co-
operative Central Bank (Malaysia), Westpac Banking Corp, The Government Investment
Corporation of Singapore, Banque Worms, Permata Chartered Merchant Bank Bhd, GATX
Terminals (Pte) Ltd, Asiavest Merchant Bankers (M) Bhd, Price Waterhouse, Changi
International Airport Services Pte Ltd, Utama Wardley Bhd, The First National Bank of
Chicago, Kong Ming Bank (Sibu), Arab Malaysian Merchant Bank, Den Danske Bank,
Cummins Diesel Sales Corp, Sabah Bank, Hill Samuel Merchant Bank Asia Ltd, American
Express Bank, Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, Arab Banking Corporation, Arbuthnot Latham
Asia Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank, Ban Hin Lee Bank (Penang), Bank of Boston, Bank
Simpanan Nasional, Tat Lee Bank Ltd, Bank Buruh (M) Bhd, Midland Bank PLC, HongKong &
Shanghai Banking Corp., StarHub Pte Ltd.
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Understanding Assets and Liabilities Management through
Balance Sheet Analysis - MODULE 1
VENUE: TWO DAYS COACHING SESSION
PROGRAM DATE: To be arranged
INTRODUCTION:
What every utility company needs now is more transparency and less protocol. The days of
faking it to make it is over. Every forward looking and effective CEO desires the focus to be
on the defense of the core business, getting the house in order, improve planning and
procurement and of course optimizing cost. None of these will happen if there is no
appreciation of sound financial management.
Understanding Assets and Liabilities Management through Balance Sheet Analysis -
MODULE 1
is a no nonsense technical hands-on program in which the participants will receive
comprehensive instruction on accounting and economics aspects of financial analysis that
evaluate the performance of the company and the division. After discussion of the theory and
real world aspects of understanding the limitations of financial statements, the course moves
to interpretation, where you will follow the lead of the instructor in building your own
techniques in performing the interpretation of financial statements. As the course progresses,
you will perform more work on an independent basis using actual real life case studies to
assess various kinds of risk. It is all about decision making through financial management.
This program is designed and pegged at Introductory and Intermediate Level for participants
who may have some background in business administration. It is equally suitable for senior
management who may need a refresher course on why they are there.
COACHING OUTLINE
• Determining Sound Financial Management in companies
• What is the reason and need for Assets and Liabilities management
• Introduction to Financial Analysis
• Various Types of Financial Statements and their Implications
• Long-Term Capital Structure – Gearing and Leverage
• Short-Term Capital Structure – Overtrading and Under-trading
• The Seven Critical Components in a Balance Sheet
• Reward Policy
• To Hire or to Fire
METHODOLOGY
This coaching is conducted by Tommy Seah, a Certified Fraud Examiner for Corporate
Governence. It consists of a lively series of short participative lectures conveyed using plain
uncomplicated explanations. Learning will be facilitated through discussion and case
studies. Ample coaching materials will be given to participants so that these will be a
constant source of reference to them. Ample time will be allotted for the transfer of ideas.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
CEOs, CFOs, Head of Audit, Head of Operations,Marketing Officers, Account Officers,
Risk Managers, Compliance Officers, Operations Managers, Treasury Managers, Training
Managers Relations Managers, HR Managers, Internal Control Officers and all Bank Internal
Auditors.
COACH
Tommy Seah, CFE, MIIA, CMC, etc.,
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SINGAPORE 535133
SINGAPORE
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Registration & Payment
To ensure effectiveness of learning and group interaction, the coaching session is
strictly limited to participants from the same industry.
Understanding Assets and Liabilities Management through
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VENUE: TWO DAYS COACHING SESSION
REGISTRATION FORM
You can return the registration form either via e-mail or by fax.
Mail to: jerene@cfe-in-practice.com
Tel: (65) 9106 9872 or 9489 7874 Fax: (65) 6286 4135
Course Fees: US$5000 per day for a class size of 20 pax.
Payable 10 working days before the commencement of the program.
Each additional head count is charged at US$500/- per person per day*.
(Please note that accommodation and air-fare for the coach is not included in the course
fees.)
*Must be from the same organization and attending the same program.
Registration is only effected upon receipt of good funds via T/T. Regretfully, telephone
bookings cannot and will not be entertained or accepted. Upon receipt of good funds, one set
of training materials will be despatched to client for reproduction.
All T/T payment must be remitted:
DBS Bank, Battery Road Branch, Singapore
Current A/c No. 022-900202-8
Account Name: CFE-IN-PRACTICE
Understanding Assets and Liabilities Management through Balance Sheet Analysis -
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Program Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm Program Venue: To be arranged
Please note that this is not a conference or a seminar.
Practical benefits come from interaction with the Trainer in this coaching session.
Participant’s Name: Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms
Designation in Organisation:
Participant’s Email:
Contact Phone No.:
Fax No.:
Organisation’s Name:
Contact Person’s Name:
Contact Person’s Email:
Organisation’s Address:
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Investigative Tools and Techniques for the Professional Auditor
Two Days
Background and Objective
The purpose of this coaching session is to establish basic principles and essential
procedures and to provide guidance on the auditor’s responsibility to consider fraud in
an audit of financial statements and expand on what are the tools that are available to
the internal auditor and how they are to be applied in relation to the risks of material
misstatement due to fraud. The tools and techniques in this program are intended
to be integrated into the overall audit process for the development of the internal
auditor into a professional auditor. It is meant to restore faith in the internal audit
profession.
It is to light the fire in the belly once again for those who truly loves the calling of the
internal audit profession.
This program distinguishes fraud from error and describes the two types of fraud that
are relevant to the auditor, that is, misstatements resulting from misappropriation of
assets and misstatements resulting from fraudulent financial reporting; describes the
respective responsibilities of those charged with governance and the management of
the entity for the prevention and detection of fraud, describes the inherent limitations
of an
audit in the context of fraud, and sets out the responsibilities of the auditor for
detecting material misstatements due to fraud;
This program also train the auditor to maintain an attitude of professional skepticism
recognizing the possibility that a material misstatement due to fraud could exist,
notwithstanding the auditor’s past experience with the entity about the honesty and
integrity of management and those charged with governance;
Program Outline
The Internal Auditor's Roles and Responsibilities
Audit responsibilities and general audit objectives
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Types of internal audits and factors impacting audit emphasis
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Attributes of the 21st century internal auditor
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The Audit Model - Performance of Audit Work
Overview of the audit process
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Plan the audit - the preliminary survey, audit objectives, scope, and audit
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program
Examine and evaluate information during fieldwork
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Communicate results
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Perform follow-up procedures
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Internal Control
Establish management's responsibility for control
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Identify internal audit's responsibility regarding control
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Introduce the SEATA control model
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Internal control components and factors
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Learn the various types of controls
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Understand the difference between exception and objective controls
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Review tools for documenting and evaluating internal controls
Learn how to Conduct an audit from beginning to end.
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Understand the distinction between investigative auditing and fraud
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investigation
Learn to understand risks and to identify, evaluate, and document internal
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controls.
Use the preliminary survey to determine how and what to audit.
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Discover the best techniques for gathering audit evidence and preparing
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workpapers.
Enhance interpersonal and team-building skills throughout the audit.
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Understand the audit communication process
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Learn to profile auditees
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Learn to interview the auditees in creating champions
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Who Should attend :
• Auditors
• Investigators
• Security Personnel
• Non-auditors with responsibility for developing and monitoring internal
control
METHODOLOGY
This coaching program by a Certified Fraud Examiner consists of a lively series of short
participative lectures conveyed using plain uncomplicated explanations. Learning will be
facilitated through discussion and case studies. Ample coaching materials will be given to
participants so that these will be a constant source of reference to them. Ample time will be
allotted for the transfer of ideas.
Who else should attend-For whom
Senior Management, Risk Managers, Compliance Officers, Operations Managers, Training
Managers, Relationship Managers, HR Managers, Internal Control Officers and all Bank
Internal Auditors.
COACH
TOMMY SEAH, CFE, MIIA, CMC and many others Click here for Tommy Seah's Profile.
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1. Who have we trained?
Head of Investigations, Datuks and Dato’s, Chartered Accountants, CPAs, CFAs, PHDs,
ACCAs, LLBs., LLMs, AIAs,Risk Managers, Compliance Officers, Operations Managers,
Treasury Managers, Training Managers, Relationship Managers, HR Managers, Internal
Control Officers and most Bank Internal Auditors.
2 . What have they to say?
3 . In-House Training
We can provide the same program on an In-House Training basis.
Please call Jerene at Tel. (65) 9489 7874 for rates.
4 . Visit http://www.cfe-in-practice.com
5 . Registration & Payment
(Reservations by phone will not be entertained)
To ensure effectiveness of learning and group interaction, the coaching session is strictly
limited to participants from the same industry.
Registration is only effected upon receipt of good funds 10 working days before the program
date via T/T. Regretfully, telephone bookings cannot and will not be entertained or accepted.
All T/T payment must be remitted to:
DBS Bank, Battery Road Branch, Singapore
Current A/c No. 022-900202-8
Account Name: CFE-IN-PRACTICE
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON LINE AT www.cfe-in-practice.com
REGISTRATION FORM
Investigative Tools and Techniques for the Professional Auditor
Two Days
Closing Date: To be arranged
Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm
Venue: A comfortable and conducive environment that is suitable for the participants
You can return the registration form either via e-mail or by fax.
Mail to: jerene@cfe-in-practice.com
Tel: (65) 9106 9872 or 9489 7874 Fax: (65) 6286 4135
Course Fees: US$5000/- for a maximum of 16 pax.
Any additional person* will incur a charge of US$500/-
(Please note that accommodation, all meals, communication; transfer to/from airport and SQ
air-fare is not included in the course fees.)
*Must be from the same bank and attending the same program.
Participant's Name: Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms
Designation in Organisation :
Contact Phone No.:
Fax No.:
Organisation's Email:
Organisation's Name:
Organisation's Address:
Do you want to have a demonstration of Data Active Risk Solution?
Please check the appropriate box: YES □ No □
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