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  • ‘Financial Investigations in Organizations’

    • Full-time
    • 2 years
    • Russian
    • 200 000
  • Entrance exams

    • Economic theory
    • Foreign language

Program description

The program is aimed at training personnel to work in specialized departments in financial and credit organizations, specialized structural units to ensure the public authorities economic security at all levels, municipalities, large companies and corporations, and other business entities, regardless of ownership and capitalization level, consulting, auditing, insurance companies, investment and leasing companies, organizations engaged in foreign economic activity and in other economic sectors, law enforcement and other regulatory bodies, expert institutions and includes activities – consulting, organizing and conducting financial investigations; detecting and preventing corporate fraud; preventing corruption offenses; in financial services, loans and other types of credit, transactions with securities and commodities, in accounting, financial audit, tax consulting.

Classes are held 2-3 times a week (at Oleko Dundicha str., 23): on weekdays from 18:55 to 22.00, on Saturdays from 10.00 to 17.10. Modular training system (4 modules in the academic year – 2 in each term), a flexible system of intermediate control, when a student passes exams at the end of studying a block of disciplines defined by the corresponding curriculum.

Accreditation and Partners

Program managers

Lebedev Igor Alexandrovich

  • PhD in Economics, Associate Professor
  • Head of the Department of Economic Security and Risk Management
  • Partner of the Consulting Services Department of KPMG JSC, member of the International Compliance Association (ICA). Engaged in the development and implementation of anti-fraud and corruption systems, compliance systems to ensure compliance with Russian and leading international standards, fraud and corruption detection programs and the procedure for their investigation, fraud and corruption risk assessment, the development of specific measures and procedures to reduce them, the implementation of hotlines, control automation at various levels, conducting training, expert support of arbitration and criminal proceedings. Author of monographs and publications in periodicals on ensuring economic security, risk analysis, combating corruption and fraud.​

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Identify suspicious transactions and transactions subject to mandatory control as the main element of countering money laundering and terrorist financing.
  • Identify and conduct internal investigations of fraud and corruption in the activities of budget organizations.
  • Identify and conduct internal investigations of corporate fraud in the activities of organizations.
  • Analyze and forecast the main socio-economic indicators, propose strategic directions of economic development at the micro, meso and macro levels.
  • Identify and prevent the risks of corruption offenses.
  • Apply innovative technologies, methods of system analysis and modeling of economic processes in setting and solving economic problems.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Corporate Finance (advanced level)

The purpose of the discipline is to deepen knowledge in corporate finance and acquire financial decision-making skills in the real sector of the economy.

Financial Reporting Fraud: Detection and Prevention

Reporting fraud includes theoretical concepts and consequences of the global market conditions. The corporate governance system and its impact on the possibility of financial reporting fraud. Economic and other consequences of financial reporting fraud. Factors and methods of fraud. The use of financial analysis methods to identify financial reporting fraud and methods for detecting and preventing fraud with financial statements.

Risk Management and Internal Control in Companies

The discipline content includes the study of the following problems – a complex process implemented by the organization management and staff.

Countering Corporate Fraud

The discipline purpose is to form and consolidate students’ system of knowledge about the nature and corporate fraud patterns, to teach them methods of detecting fraud in the corporate environment, evaluation methods, as well as methods of countering fraud by employees.

Fintech: Tools and Business Models

The purpose of this discipline is to form students’ understanding of fintech services based on data processing technologies, machine learning, distributed registries.

Methods of Ensuring Economic Security in Companies

The discipline program is aimed at developing knowledge and skills about the analysis of economic entities’ activities and identifying possible sources of threats to its external and internal security, calculating economic and socio-economic indicators of economic entities’ activities and developing a system of measures to prevent fraud and ways to prevent and recognize them

Financial Investigations Countering Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism and Economic Violations

The purpose of the discipline is to develop students’ skills in risk management techniques, skills in forming analytical reports on offenses with cash flow at enterprises and money legalization, skills in forecasting the development of financial and economic processes and skills in using financial and economic information in ensuring economic security.

Financial and Economic Expertise

Conceptual and legal foundations of financial and economic expertise. The legal status of the expert and the expert opinion. The current state of financial and economic expertise. Methodological foundations of financial and economic expertise. The use of special expert methods of financial and economic expertise.

Methods of Corporate Intelligence in Financial Investigations

The purpose of studying the discipline is to develop students’ skills in analyzing and verifying public information reliability, data from various sources to assess the opportunities and risks of business relationships with third parties – suppliers and contractors, clients and business partners, investment objects and potential employees, as well as skills in asset search when collecting the debtor’s property through the court trial.

Career

Specialized compliance control units in financial and credit organizations (Letter of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation No. 173-T dated 2.11.2007 “On the Recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision”), specialized structural units to ensure the economic security of public authorities at all levels, municipalities, large companies and corporations, and other business entities, regardless of ownership forms and capitalization level, consulting, auditing (Big Four companies), insurance companies, investment and leasing companies, organizations engaged in foreign economic activity and in other sectors of the economy, law enforcement and other regulatory authorities, expert institutions KPMG, PwC.

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

Classes are held with practical teachers from Rosfinmonitoring, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, financial expertise centers.

Students receive unique practice-oriented knowledge in detection and prevention of financial crimes.

The strategic partners of the program are the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, the International Educational and Methodological Center for Financial Monitoring.

Masters’ degree students can study at a foreign university under quotas under agreements with the FinU on a state-funded basis (Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Vantaa, Finland): Degree programme in Safety, Security and Risk management; Chinese University of Political Science and Law (Beijing, China).

Bachelors undergo internships in leading companies and credit organizations in Russia (Sberbank, ICA, ICS, CB, Rosfinmonitoring, KPMG, VTB, Deloitte, Pricewaterhousecoopers Audit, Ernst & Young Vneshaudit, Rosatom, Alfastrakhovanie, Rosselkhoznadzor, Vnukovo International Airport).

The opportunity to work in audit (Big Four companies), insurance companies, investment and leasing companies, organizations engaged in foreign economic activity, law enforcement and other regulatory authorities, expert institutions