Overview
Across four structured sessions, participants will develop a rigorous, end-to-end capability for detecting and responding to financial fraud in PE/VC contexts. The programme opens by building pattern recognition for the most common forms of accounting manipulation seen in startups and growth-stage businesses - from revenue inflation to burn rate misreporting before moving into the architecture of a forensic due diligence process and how to investigate promoter misconduct and related-party transactions.
Day two shifts to the tools and technologies reshaping fraud detection, including AI-based transaction analysis and digital forensics, illustrated through global case studies. The programme closes with a practical session on what happens after fraud is discovered - covering legal remedies, regulatory management, governance reform, and how investors can protect their interests when things go wrong.
Participants leave with a set of forensic frameworks, red flag checklists, and investigation playbooks they can integrate into their due diligence and portfolio monitoring processes immediately.