Federal fraud detection and prevention training that turns red flags into prosecutable cases

Taught by federal auditors, investigators, and forensic accountants who have worked real cases, and delivered your way: onsite, live online, or self-paced.

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Three ways to train your team

Every format draws on the same practitioner-built federal fraud detection and prevention curriculum and instructors who have done the work. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them.

  • Private group training: work contract, procurement, and infrastructure fraud red flags against your agency's own cases, onsite.
  • Open enrollment: send one investigator to the next scheduled class and stack it toward a fraud certificate, live online or in Washington, DC.
  • Self-paced eLearning: build forensic data analytics and report writing skills between active cases, on each investigator's own schedule.
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Private group training

Bring your investigators, auditors, and program integrity staff together around your own casework: the contract and procurement files under review, the infrastructure awards you oversee, and the improper payment patterns already sitting in your payment data.

  • Any course or certificate in our fraud detection and prevention catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended
  • A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits
  • Scheduled around your calendar, for a cohort of any size
  • Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group
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Open enrollment

Send one or two people to a scheduled public session when the gap is a single skill, such as interviewing techniques, report writing for investigations, or data analytics tools for investigations, and they learn beside investigators from other agencies.

  • A published schedule across the federal fraud detection and prevention curriculum, entry to advanced
  • Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC
  • No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go
  • The same instructors and materials as our private cohorts
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Self-paced eLearning

Self-paced study works for the groundwork behind this practice, including how federal fraud schemes operate and what audit evidence has to show. It suits staff preparing for a live investigations course, or fitting study around active casework.

  • Finish a self-paced fraud course, then sit the instructor-led version free within a year.
  • Work real red flag patterns and case scenarios with knowledge checks, not slides you only read.
  • An always-available AI coach grounded in the fraud detection course material, for questions mid-case.
  • Enroll a single investigator or the whole oversight shop, with completion tracking.
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Training for every stage of a fraud case

Whether you are spotting anomalies in payment data, auditing a grant, interviewing a witness, or handing a case to prosecutors, these courses map to the work federal auditors, investigators, and program-integrity staff do every day. Take them one at a time or stack them into a certificate.

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Fraud investigation core

Learn how federal fraud schemes work, the statutes behind them, and the red flags that expose contract, procurement, and infrastructure fraud.
Detection and Prevention of Fraud for Investigators Contract and Procurement Fraud for Investigators Course Red Flags of Infrastructure Fraud for Investigators Course Counterintelligence for Information Security Assessment and Protection Course

Data analytics and AI for detection

Turn electronic records and payment data into leads, using forensic analytics and AI to surface anomalies and improper payments before they grow.
Data Analytics Tools for Investigations Course AI Applications and Challenges for Auditors Course AI for Federal Payments and Improper Payment Prevention Course

Government auditing for program integrity

Build the Yellow Book audit foundation that underpins fraud and improper-payment work, from evidence and grants to full performance audits and appropriations compliance.
Basic Governmental Auditing Course Conducting Performance Audits Course Auditing Grants Course Audit Evidence and Documentation Course Federal Appropriations Law for Auditors Course

Interviewing, reporting, and prosecution

Get the testimony, write the report, and build the case, so findings survive review and hold up when they reach prosecutors.
Interviewing Techniques for Auditors Course Report Writing for Investigations Course Developing and Presenting Audit Findings Course Making Your Case to Prosecute Fraud for Investigators Course

Certificate programs

Three certificate programs: two fraud tracks at 10 days and 80 CPE each, one in fraud auditing and awareness aligned to Government Auditing Standards and one for investigators, plus Government Auditor Level I at 15 days and 116 CPE.

Certificate

Certificate in Fraud Auditing & Awareness for Professionals

Detecting and preventing fraud across federal programs and spending, aligned to Government Auditing Standards.

10 days, 80 CPE
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Certificate

Fraud Detection and Prevention for Investigators Certificate Program

Fraud detection, procurement fraud, forensic data analytics, and infrastructure oversight for federal investigators.

10 days, 80 CPE
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Level I

Government Auditor Level I Certificate Program

Audit planning, execution, and reporting for federal, state, and local auditors.

15 days, 116 CPE
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Vetted procurement, right from the GSA Schedule

Graduate School USA is a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract holder, allowing federal agencies and other qualifying organizations to confidently purchase our services.

  • GSA MAS contract 47QRAA24D004K, SINs 611430 (professional training) and 541611 (management/administrative consulting)
  • Held as American Public Training LLC d/b/a Graduate School USA; UEI LA83MCFN1ST3; CAGE 99AA0
  • We work with your training office on the paperwork, whether a Schedule order, purchase order, or an SF-182.
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An established federal training institution

Graduate School USA's federal fraud detection and prevention curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioners who have detected and prevented fraud in federal programs, not licensed from a generic library.

  • Founded 1921 as the USDA Graduate School; 500,000+ government employees trained across 125+ agencies
  • ACCET-accredited (ACCET is a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accreditor)
  • Center for Leadership and Management runs ECQ-aligned executive development, including the Executive Potential Program since 1995
  • 200+ federally experienced subject-matter experts across 400+ courses and certificates
  • Available on an active GSA MAS Schedule (SINs 611430 and 541611)

Questions agencies ask

The answers training officers and program directors ask for most, in one place.

How does my agency buy training from Graduate School USA?
Graduate School USA holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract 47QRAA24D004K (SINs 611430 and 541611), so you can place a pre-priced order directly under FAR Subpart 8.4 without running an open-market procurement. We accept the SF-182, Schedule orders, government purchase orders, and purchase cards for micro-purchases.
Can we pay with an SF-182?
Yes. We accept the SF-182, purchase orders, and GSA Schedule orders under contract 47QRAA24D004K, and our group training team works with your training office on the paperwork.
What is the difference between private group training and open enrollment?
Open enrollment classes are scheduled public sessions anyone can register for, taken live online or at our Washington, DC campus at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW. Private group training delivers a course for your agency's own cohort, tailored to your mission and delivered onsite, live online, or blended.
Can employees train self-paced, and still take the live class later?
Yes. Our self-paced online courses let a learner start anytime and work at their own pace, and when you buy the self-paced course the learner may also attend the live instructor-led course for free within one year.
Can courses be tailored to our agency?
Yes. We tailor existing courses to reflect your agency's mission, policies, and real cases, and we can develop new courses for unique requirements, all delivered under GSA contract 47QRAA24D004K.
Can training be delivered virtually or in person?
Both. Courses are offered as live virtual instruction or in-person onsite at your facility or at our Washington, DC location, and some programs blend live sessions with self-paced work.
What if an employee needs to repeat a class?
We offer one free retake of a class within one year, so a first attempt is never wasted if someone is reassigned, deployed, or needs a refresher before applying the material.
What's new in your fraud detection and prevention training?
Our curriculum is refreshed to current tools, standards, and practice; we added new AI courses for the government workforce; courses now run in a modern learning portal, and self-paced courses add an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year.
Should our investigators and our auditors take the same courses, or different tracks?
The tracks differ, though they meet in the middle. Investigators work through Detection and Prevention of Fraud for Investigators, Contract and Procurement Fraud, Red Flags of Infrastructure Fraud, and Making Your Case to Prosecute Fraud. Auditors build the Yellow Book foundation with Basic Governmental Auditing, Audit Evidence and Documentation, Conducting Performance Audits, and Auditing Grants. Both groups draw on the same analytics coursework, including Data Analytics Tools for Investigations and AI for Federal Payments and Improper Payment Prevention.
How much CPE do the fraud certificate programs carry?
The Certificate in Fraud Auditing & Awareness for Professionals and the Fraud Detection and Prevention for Investigators Certificate Program each run 10 days and carry 80 CPE. The Government Auditor Level I Certificate Program runs 15 days and carries 116 CPE. The fraud auditing certificate is aligned to Government Auditing Standards, which matters if your staff report against the Yellow Book.

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