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I will comment on one aspect of the course in particular. The presenter recommended criminal background checks as a method to prevent fraud. He fails to address the issue that biases in the criminal justice system against racial minorities result in such checks having a disparate impact on those same minorities. He also does not address the fact that such checks will turn up information that is prejudicial but of questionable relevance for preventing fraud (for example, minor drug convictions or other minor violations of the law), which in turn will make it difficult for people with those convictions to move on from their pasts. Other than that, the course was good.

An engaging look at governmental and NFP fraud. Particularly interesting were the fraud cases used as examples. The course provides helpful information regarding fraud risk areas, detection areas to focus on in order to boost the likelihood of detection, and internal control suggestions to reduce risk.

The Government and Not-For-Profit Fraud Training-Common Frauds in Not-For-Profits and Governments course was beneficial, because of how much more fraud has become a problem in the workplace, and in everyday life.

Thank you. Good introduction course with a lot of real life examples. I really enjoyed the way the course was presented. Would be useful for everyone who has no idea about what fraud is in NPO's and Govt .

As a fraud geek, I was familiar with most of the content (and the stories), but there was still information that made me pause, say hmm and send a quick message to my staff about keeping their antennae up.

Very basic introduction that is a little slow in pacing. Overall good for those with little to no knowledge of fraud and a very important primer for everyone in the management/ C Suite of a non-profit.

Best course to date I have taken with Illumeo. My interest was 100% and even though moat of the information was not new it was presented in an engaging manner. The overall presentation was great!

This was an engaging, informative, well organized course. The case applications were interesting and the instructor provided a lot of practical steps to be taken to prevent and detect fraud.

This course provided a good overview of NFP fraud. The instructor used excellent case studies to illustrate various problems with internal controls that allowed fraud to be perpetuated.