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  • ‘Corporate Security Audit’

    • Off-site
    • 2,5 years
    • RU
    • 200 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Economic Theory
    • Foreign language (English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish)

Program description

In the world rankings, the situation with corruption in Russia is characterized by experts as extremely difficult. Therefore, employers pay special attention to high-quality corporate security specialists.

To know more about this topic, we recommend that you do an online master’s degree in Corporate Security Audit, the purpose of which is to train audit professionals with knowledge in the field of economic, legal and information security.

You will also study checking and controlling the stability, reliability of the areas of the company’s activities aiming at ensuring safety of its property, funds, as well as the formation of corporate security preventive measures.

Program managers

Ludmila Vasilevna Kashirskaya

  • Doctor of Economics, Professor.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of journals included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission: “Economics Problems and Legal Practice" and  “Accounting and Taxation in Budgetary Organizations"
  • Authored more than 150 works, including 15 monographs and other works.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Search for vulnerabilities in the protection system of state and commercial organizations from threats and risks;
  • Professionally use economic, legal and technical knowledge to conduct a corporate security audit;
  • Assess the state of all security areas of the state and commercial organizations, taking into account their specifics and the organization of financial accounting;
  • Identify, protect data and ensure the stability of business processes based on audit procedures;
  • Assess compliance of corporate security with business needs;
  • Conduct a comprehensive audit of information systems, information reliability, risks, fraud, etc.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Personnel Audit of and Staff Security

One of the core disciplines where graduate students will learn how to build an effective and adequate threat system aimed at the organization’s personnel as a nodal element of the company’s security management.

Business Audit

The basic discipline, an author’s course of Professor Roman Bulyga, which forms a comprehensive view of the current state, trends, and prospects for the auditing development as a type of professional activity. The study of the discipline, on the one hand, develops independent skills and abilities of organizing and conducting all types of currently existing audit services (audit; tasks providing confidence; audit-related services), on the other hand it helps to get a methodology idea for conducting innovative audit directions of the XXI century (strategic audit, business process audit, operational audit, intellectual capital audit).

Anti-Corruption Audit

The discipline is aimed at acquiring practical skills in using audit methods to manage business processes and minimize the risks of corruption in the organization’s activities.

Financial Reporting Fraud: Detection and Prevention

Forgery of financial statements. Theoretical concepts and consequences in the conditions of the global market. The corporate governance system and its impact on the possibility of financial statements’ forgery. Economic and other consequences of financial statements’ forgery. Factors and methods of forgery. The use of financial analysis methods to identify falsification of financial statements and methods for detecting and preventing fraud with financial statements.

Information Security

One of the core disciplines where students will gain skills in the development and research of information security processes and its components.

Fraud Audit

A module for choosing a professional specialization in which students learn to conduct audits and propose measures to reduce the risk of fraud.

Economic Security

Graduate students will study the mechanism to ensure the economic security of the activities of state and commercial organizations, considering their specifics and the organization of financial (accounting) accounting.

Methodological Support of Corporate Security Audit

The main discipline of the curriculum, where students learn to assess the compliance of corporate security with business needs, to search for vulnerabilities in the system of protection of state and commercial organizations from threats and risks

Econometric Studies

The discipline is aimed at expanding the students’ background necessary for the successful activity of a graduate student who is capable of effectively applying mathematical statistics and modern information technologies in the field of their professional activity, as well as contributing to the further development of personality.

Career

Upon completion of the program, graduates work as:

  • Managers and specialists of state and commercial organizations (chief accountants, internal auditors, expert accountants and audit supervisors);
  • Managers and specialists of audit organizations;
  • Heads and specialists of law enforcement agencies;
  • Civil servants of control and audit and tax authorities;
  • Members of consulting groups.

A wide variety of internships: the largest audit and consulting companies, government and commercial organizations, law enforcement and tax authorities.

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

The most relevant and unique master’s degree program, and its graduates are in demand in the labor market.

The purpose of the master’s degree program is to train audit professionals with knowledge in the field of economic, legal and information security.

The program also covers in a detailed way verification and control of stability, reliability of those areas of enterprise activity, therefore the safety of its property, funds.

Classes are held online, which facilitates the learning process and the efficient use of your time.

Highly qualified practitioners (auditors, chief accountants, lawyers, etc.) will share all the secrets of their own and others’ activities in the classroom.

The course starts from the Law on Consumer Protection to Codes, exploring and discovering their application by all participants in the business process.