AF2S537 - Financial Crime Investigation 09 Mar 2020 - 31 Aug 2025 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: AF2S537
Module Title: Financial Crime Investigation
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Accounting and Finance
Faculty Sub Group: Accounting and Finance
Module Leader: Karen Counsell
Module Team: Jared Davies
First Intended Intake: SEP 2020 Final Year of Intake: 2024
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100105 - accounting
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 09 Mar 2020
Valid To 31 Aug 2025

Module Aims

To provide the knowledge of tools and techniques associated with financial crime investigation.

To provide a legal context and process within which such investigations are conducted.

Content Summary

To provide the student with an overall context within which to investigate financial crime. Students will be able to engage with the legal material within a simulated context allowing them to use forensic tools to recover data, to consider the material revealed by such techniques within the context of the financial professional. Students will engage with substantive legal areas such as fraud, piracy, money laundering, terrorism and bribery in order. Students will undertake these areas while also keeping in mind evidentiary legal issues which regulate investigation in this area

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 24
Tutorial 22
Independent Study 96
Directed Study 56
Formative Assessment - Independent 2
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Apply different solutions to a range of financial crime issues within a computer forensics context.
LO2 Apply relevant legal issues to financial crime investigation

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Practical Assessment (CW) Practical Coursework 2 A transactional simulation which recreates a financial based case scenario. 0 3000 60 No 40
Practical Assessment (CW) Practical Coursework 1 A written report based on evidential retrieval 0 2000 40 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Practical Coursework 2
Practical Coursework 1

Reading List

Relevant statutory provisions such as Fraud Act 2006, Police and Criminal Act 1984

Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

Computer Misuse Act 1990

Police and Justice Act 2006

Bribery Act 2010

Civil Procedure Rules

Criminal Procedure Rules

Family Procedure Rules

International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Harrison K, Ryder N, (2013)The Law Relating to Financial Crime in the United Kingdom, Ashgate

LEXISNEXIS – financial crime investigations practice compliance

Casey, E., (2011) Digital Evidence and Computer Crime; Forensic Science Third Edition

Shinder, D Scene of the Cybercrime, second Edition, Syngress