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Package: FCIC Short Course Suite

Time limit: 180 days

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About this course

Coming soon! Register Your Interest at the bottom of this page and we will let you know once the course is open for registrations. 

By signing up to this course you will get access to all four courses in the short course suite, including:

  • FC Disruption and Prevention: Offender Methodologies and Victimology
  • Employing an Investigative Mindset to Investigate Financial Crime
  • Effective SMR Report Writing
  • Mastering the Risk based Approach to Risk Assessment

Delivery Mode

Delivered online in self-paced mode, you will have 180 days from the time of your purchase to complete the training. As this is an online self-paced course there is no requirement to attend any live sessions. You can access and complete the online course 24/7 during your access.  After the 180 days you will lose access to the course.

This course has been developed by academic staff within the Academy of Excellence in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance at Griffith University. 

Established in 2022, the Academy brings together Griffith’s expertise in criminology, economics, tax law, information technology and forensic accounting, in collaboration with industry partners, to provide national thought leadership and drive continuous improvement of training programs to tackle these global issues. The Academy has developed a series of short courses focused on financial crime.  You can learn more about the Academy here.

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180 Days to Complete
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Course Snapshot

Course 1: FC Disruption and Prevention: Offender Methodologies and Victimology?

This course takes a deeper look at criminological concepts that can be used to better investigate, report and disrupt financial crime. Upon completion of this course participants will have demonstrated an ability to analyse and deconstruct financial crimes using a crime script approach to identify key actors, contributing factors and develop prevention strategies that can be used to disrupt financial crimes. 

This course will consist of three modules:

  1. Deconstructing financial crimes using a crime script
  2. Offenders, victims and guardians
  3. Disrupting and preventing financial crimes
Course 2: Employing an Investigative Mindset

This course provides a basic introduction to different types of financial crime, reporting obligation and employing an investigative mindset in financial crime investigation & identifying grounds for suspicion. Upon completing this short course, participants will have correctly identified & reported potential indicators and financial flows associated with financial crime. Participants will have shown an ability to develop hypothesis, collect data and identify grounds for suspicion. 

This course will include three modules:

  1. What is Financial Crime? Introduction to money laundering
  2. Financial Crime and the banking system
  3. Investigative mindset and hypothesis testing
Course 3: Effective SMR Report Writing

This course provides a master class in effective SMR report writing. It covers legislative responsibilities associated with their preparation and explore strategies for writing them in a way that communicates your suspicions to AUSTRAC effectively. After completing this course, participants will have demonstrated competence in identifying and summarising indicators of financial crime into precise effective SMR report writing.

  • Topic 1 - Overview of Reporting Obligations, Triggers for SMR reporting 
  • Topic 2 - Principles in SMR Reporting & reasonable grounds for suspicion 
  • Topic 3 - Get to the point: writing effective SMRs with precision
Course 4: Mastering the Risk-based Approach to Risk Assessment

This course provides an introduction to risk management and applying the risk based approaches to products and customer profiles. Upon completion of this course participants will have correctly applied the risk based approach to assess customers and products and apply appropriate controls to mitigate risks.

This course consists of three modules:

  1. An overview of Governance and Risk Assessment
  2. Risk Profiling using customer, product, geographic and delivery channels risk factors
  3. Introduction to Customer Due diligence
What does my course schedule look like?

You will get 180 days of access to the online course site once you enrol. During this period you can access the course 24/7 and we estimate it will take you approximately 25 hours to complete. You can continue to engage with the course materials throughout your access period. 

Access to Exclusive Webinars:

As part of your enrolment in this course, you will also be invited to attend webinars that the Academy will be hosting on topics linked to the short course suite. These webinars will be offered periodically and you will be emailed information when there is an upcoming webinar. These are optional to attend, they are not part of your course completion however will be offered as an exclusive extra to those enrolled across the short course suite. 

Register Your Interest Here:

Register your interest in this form and we will be in contact once the course is open for registrations: