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Financial Crime Investigation
Issued by
Mohawk Valley Community College
The Financial Crime Investigation (FCI) microcredential will provide students in the Criminal Justice AAS degree program with career-related elective options outside the traditional policing, courts, and corrections fields. The job prospects for fraud examiners, fraud investigators and fraud analysts have continued to grow, and the FCI microcredential will prepare our graduates for these types of positions within multiple industries.
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Earning Criteria
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AC115 Financial Accounting - 3 Credits This course is the first of a sequence that explores fundamental accounting principles, concepts, and practices as a basis for the preparation, understanding, and interpretation of accounting information. It covers the complete accounting cycle for service and merchandising businesses through the adjustment and closing of the books and the preparation of the income statement, the statement of owner equity, and the balance sheet. The details of accounting fo
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AC116 Managerial Accounting - 3 Credits This course is the second of a sequence that explores fundamental accounting principles, concepts, and practices as a basis for the preparation, understanding, and interpretation of accounting information. It covers corporate equity (including the statement of retained earnings), long-term debt, time-value concepts, capital budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, and financial statement analysis. Prerequisite: AC115 Financial Accounting.
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CJ206 Intro to Economic Crime Investigation - 3 Credits This course defines and analyzes illegal acts which provide an economic return to the offender or for which victims bear an economic cost. It details the basic procedures followed by law enforcement officers as they investigate crimes. Topics include the physical and social costs of economic crime, as well as the investigation of securities and corporate fraud, fiduciary fraud, corruption of public officials, medical crimes, and cybercrimes
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CJ215 Principles of Fraud Examination - 3 Credits This course provides students with an overview of economic/white collar crime in the United States. Topics include methods for detecting and investigating fraud, theoretical concepts, typical illicit schemes, information gathering techniques, methods of organizing and analyzing complex data, and case studies. The course involves an exploration of key characteristics of economic/white collar crime including the extent of seriousness, types of offe
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CJ290 CJ Internship or BM290 Business Internship - 3 Credits This course promotes an interest in criminal justice for students pursuing a related course of study. It reinforces academic concepts through practical work experience, assists in making career choices, and provides familiarity with the work of criminal justice agencies. Students participate on the staffs of local public or private criminal justice agencies. A minimum of 90 hours of field experience is required. Attendance and particip