Remote Education Access Program (REAP)
Listening to our members across the country, the need for access to flexible continuing professional education (CPE) has become critical. Many members are facing increased limitations on travel, reduced training budgets, and they are becoming concerned about meeting training requirements. These members have pointed out that the ACFS Rules and Regulations require each fellow and regular member to complete at least twenty-four (24) hours of continuing professional education each year and that sixteen (16) hours of those CPE hours must be fraud related (Rule 10).
Our members have clearly stated that, in addition to the launching of the regional conference training program, they need training that ANY member can obtain, not just those able to attend national or regional training conferences. Access to this new training program will grant ACFS members the opportunity to satisfy their CPE requirements, without having to leave their office or home.
At this time these courses are only open to members. REAP courses that are completed by Regular and Fellow Members qualify towards meeting the annual CPE requirement Certified Fraud Specialists must satisfy in order to maintain their certification in active status. Suspended members who are seeking re-activation of their CFS may participate in the REAP program to satisfy their CPE requirements.
To enroll in either course, please send written notification to ACFS Headquarters and you will receive written acknowledgement from the Training Program Coordinator. Once you have received acknowledgement, purchase the book from your local bookseller or from Amazon online. Upon receipt of the book, send your course tuition of $140.00, along with a copy of your acknowledgement, to the Training Program Coordinator at the ACFS National Office. Within 10 days you will receive a course outline and an 80 question multiple choice exam via U.S. Mail. Study the book and return your completed exam to the ACFS National Office for grading. You will need to earn a minimum passing score of 70 percent on the exam to pass the course. There are no other CPE course requirements.
Don’t risk your certification being suspended - enroll in a REAP course today!
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REAP COURSES
Financial Shenanigans
16 Hours of ACFS Continuing Education Credit
The text for this course is Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, by Howard Schilit (ISBN 978-0-07-138626-5).
This course gives you state-of-the-art tools to identify warnings of a company’s financial problems. You will learn seven fundamental tricks that companies have used to fool auditors and investors for years. These tricks include revenue tricks, expense traps and liability scams. The current Amazon.com price for this book is $23.07. |
Profit Without Honor
16 Hours of ACFS Continuing Education Credit
The text for this CPE course is Profit without Honor: White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America, by Rosoff, Pontell and Tillman (ISBN 0-13-172232-8).
This course provides an in-depth treatment of all facets of white collar crime and addresses crimes spanning from those committed against consumers, unsafe products, environmental crime, institutional corruption, securities fraud, corporate fraud, fiduciary fraud, public sector fraud and corruption, to medical and computer crime. This course surveys the forms, causes and consequences of white-collar crime. You will be introduced to current social science theories of white-collar crime as well as their mechanics. Learn how white-collar crime schemes work, who perpetrates them, and how they are tied to the environments in which they occur. The current Amazon.com price for this book is $61.02. |
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COMING SOON
Expert Witness (early November)
16 Hours of ACFS Continuing Education Credit
As our society becomes more complex more and more attorneys and judges are calling upon consultants, who are deemed to be experts, to explain how things happened. This course is designed to provide insight and support in several areas that are key to the effectiveness of a consultant/expert. Some of the issues that will be addressed in the course include:
- What does an expert witness do?
- Why should I consider being an expert witness?
- What are the hard questions and how should I answer them?
- How can I market myself as an expert witness?
- How to I prepare for discovery, depositions and trial?
- How can I make my testimony more effective?
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Criminal Financial Investigations (late November)
16 Hours of ACFS Continuing Education Credit
This course will cover the use of forensic accounting techniques as well as indirect methods of proof in investigating financial fraud. This training module will examine practical applications of forensic accounting techniques which have significant use in both civil and criminal litigation support. Specifically, this training module will address the legal requirements, tools, and procedures used to conduct a criminal financial investigation and it will review the use of circumstantial evidence as a means to secure a conviction. Course content will include use of both the net worth analysis and the personal expenditures analysis methodologies and will provide instructions on how to organize and prepare evidence. Included in this module will be concepts designed to help the financial investigator convey to an average citizen jury member, key points and concepts that will assist them in understanding the complexities of a financial investigation.
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Questions?
Contact the ACFS at
(916) 419-6319 with any questions regarding REAP.
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Do you have a need for a specific course?
If you have ideas for other CPE courses or have specific needs for which you would like us to develop a new CPE course please contact:
David Murphy, CFS
National Education Committee Chair
Murphy.D@lynchburg.edu
(434) 544-8387 |
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