Fraud, AI and Accountability

Who needs it most: All staff, executives, finance teams and business owners

Practical learning outcome: Recognise impersonation risks involving cloned voices, fake videos and fabricated documents. Practise independently verifying requests before releasing money or confidential information.

Who needs it most: Finance, risk, audit, procurement and technology teams

Practical learning outcome: Develop a sample approach for scoring payment risk using transaction history, supplier information and approval patterns. Set clear thresholds for human review before payment.

Who needs it most: CEOs, HR, finance, operations and internal audit

Practical learning outcome: Identify payroll manipulation, false expenses, stock theft and management override. Build checks that address collusion and excessive access to systems and assets.

Who needs it most: Department heads, supervisors and control owners across all sectors

Practical learning outcome: Map a vulnerable process, identify where fraud could occur and strengthen its weakest controls. Leave with a checklist covering approvals, verification, access and reconciliation.

Who needs it most: All employees, boards, HR, compliance and investigation teams

Practical learning outcome: Recognise reportable concerns, use appropriate reporting channels and handle allegations confidentially. Establish clear responsibilities for assessment, escalation and protection against retaliation.

Who needs it most: Businesses, SACCOs, NGOs, schools, finance teams and payment operators

Practical learning outcome: Verify recipients, control payment approvals, recognise suspicious changes and reconcile transactions promptly. Practise responding when a payment goes to a suspected fraudster.

Who needs it most: NGOs, implementing partners, project managers and grant accountants

Practical learning outcome: Trace funds from approved budgets to actual delivery. Use data checks and AI-assisted matching to flag possible duplicate beneficiaries, double charging and unsupported expenditure for verification.

Who needs it most: Boards, public officials, procurement teams, NGOs and business leaders

Practical learning outcome: Identify relationships and incentives that could compromise decisions. Apply disclosure, independent review and escalation procedures to supplier selection, recruitment, grants and approvals.

Who needs it most: CEOs, entrepreneurs, boards and senior management

Practical learning outcome: Set clear fraud responsibilities, challenge management overrides and align incentives with responsible conduct. Develop a concise leadership dashboard that connects warning signs to decisions and action.

Who needs it most: Investigators, internal auditors, HR, compliance and legal teams

Practical learning outcome: Preserve original records and use AI to help organise documents, compare accounts and build an evidence-linked timeline. Verify every finding against its source before drawing conclusions.

Who needs it most: Boards, CFOs, investors, lenders, funders and auditors

Practical learning outcome: Compare reported performance with cash flows and supporting records. Identify unusual journals, unsupported revenue, concealed liabilities and adjustments that require further investigation.

Who needs it most: All staff, especially finance, procurement and executive assistants

Practical learning outcome: Recognise manipulated payment requests, compromised email accounts and fraudulent supplier changes. Practise a verification process that works even when an email appears to come from a trusted person.

Who needs it most: Health ministries, hospitals, clinics, insurers and health NGOs

Practical learning outcome: Cross-check claims, treatment records, medicine issues and stock movements. Use analytics to flag repeated claims, unusual billing and unexplained shortages for targeted review.

Who needs it most: School owners, governing bodies, headteachers, bursars and universities

Practical learning outcome: Reconcile student records, fees, bank receipts, bursaries and payroll. Build practical checks against diverted collections, false refunds, procurement abuse and asset theft.

Who needs it most: Government entities, NGOs, companies, procurement teams and project managers

Practical learning outcome: Use document review and data analysis to flag suspicious awards, supplier relationships, pricing and contract changes. Strengthen checks that confirm goods and services were actually delivered.

Who needs it most: Donors, foundations, development partners, grant committees and programme officers

Practical learning outcome: Build a partner risk scorecard, verify reported results and target monitoring visits. Use evidence to guide funding decisions, additional checks and corrective action.

Who needs it most: Entrepreneurs, family businesses, retailers, manufacturers and distributors

Practical learning outcome: Introduce a weekly owner’s review of cash, stock, credit sales, discounts and refunds. Identify unexplained differences and assign follow-up without having to approve every transaction personally.

Who needs it most: Ministries, departments, agencies, local governments and public programmes

Practical learning outcome: Link payroll, beneficiary, expenditure and delivery records to identify exceptions. Prioritise physical verification and assign responsibility for resolving unsupported payments.

Who needs it most: Risk, audit, finance, compliance and technology teams

Practical learning outcome: Design a monitoring dashboard that combines rules and AI-generated risk scores. Assign alert owners, set response deadlines and measure useful detections, false alarms and unresolved cases.

Who needs it most: Boards, executives, model owners, auditors and technology leaders

Practical learning outcome: Test predictions against verified cases, assess missed fraud and false alerts, and check for unfair outcomes. Establish human review, secure data handling and regular reassessment as fraud patterns change.