Professional Interviewing Skills – official ACFE (CPE) course

Expert techniques for interviewing suspects of fraud

Interviews are a vital part of many fraud examinations. Your ability to obtain information or admissions during an interview can often make or break a case. This interactive course on investigative interview techniques will teach you how to be more effective in asking direct and follow-up questions, while evaluating verbal and non-verbal responses to uncover the truth during interviews.

By learning the fundamental interviewing techniques, presented by our expert instructors, you will learn how to get better information from suspects, witnesses and victims to enhance any investigation or examination. All anti-fraud professionals, auditors, law enforcement officers, and human resources professionals can benefit from this course!

What will you learn in this top course on investigative interview techniques?

In this 2-day ACFE (CPE) course, you will learn to/about:

• Plan and schedule interviews
• Identify different types of interview questions for individual personality styles
• Obtain confessions and signed statements
• Effectively prepare for an interview
• The fraudster's mindset
• Interview goals and strategies
• Questioning for quality information
• The various verbal and non-verbal clues to deception
• Interview suspects
• Interview witnesses and victims
• Comply with legal issues that affect interviews
• Detect deception and create strategies to gain quality information
• Define the aspects of an admission-seeking interview

Who should attend?

This 2-day course about Investigative Interview Techniques is meant for Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) and other anti-fraud professionals, internal and external auditors, CPAs, CAs and forensic accountants, law enforcement officers, attorneys and legal professionals, controllers and corporate managers, GRC managers, loss prevention and security professionals, human resources professionals, privacy officers, and all other professionals interested in expert techniques for interviewing suspects of fraud.

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for attending this official ACFE (CPE) course.

Educational level of the course

The course Investigative Interview Techniques will be held on a higher educational level.

Maintaining your Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credential - CPE requirements

To maintain your CFE credential, you are required to earn at least 20 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) every 12-month period. Al least 10 of these hours must directly relate to the detection and deterrence of fraud and 2 hours must directly relate to ethics. If you have earned more than 20 hours of CPE in your previous reporting period, you may rollover up to 10 hours to meet your current CPE requirements.

With the official ACFE course Investigative Interview Techniques, you will earn 16 CPE credits (including 2 ethics credits) for your CFE recertification.

About the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners)

ACFE is the world's largest anti-fraud organization and the premier provider of anti-fraud trainings and education. Together with more than 90.000 members in 160 countries and chapters in 125 countries, ACFE is reducing business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession.