An auditor examines the financial documents of a business or corporation to uncover discrepancies and search for illegal activities. A course in auditing will show you how to prepare for and conduct an audit, examine account balances and prepare a report based on your findings.
According to the University of California, Davis, $660 billion is lost to fraud in the workplace each year. In a fraud detection and prevention course you'll learn how to detect fraud while performing audits, the differences between civil and criminal fraud and the forms that fraud takes.
In this upper-level course of study, you'll learn about how to show businesses where they are losing profits, how businesses can be more cost-efficient, how to analyze cost variances on reports and how to prepare spreadsheets to represent this data to a business.
Once you have the basics of accounting and taxation, you can enroll in an upper-level course that teaches you how to be an effective and successful manager. Standard costing, cash flow analysis and budgeting are among the topics discussed.