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Forensic Accounting & Compliance
5 courses
Case Study: A Basic Introduction to the Punjab National Bank Fraud Case
A ground-up walkthrough of India's biggest banking fraud, the roughly 14,000 crore rupee Punjab National Bank scam uncovered in 2018. Meet the people involved, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and the PNB branch officials who enabled them, and understand the two banking tools at the centre of it, Letters of Undertaking and the SWIFT messaging system, and how they were misused for years without showing up in the bank's own core systems. Walk through how the fraud was finally discovered, what RBI, the CBI and the ED did afterwards, and what the case teaches about internal controls, reconciliation and compliance culture in Indian banking.
Case Study: Adani Group Stock Volatility and Governance Concerns
A ground up case study on the Adani Group Hindenburg episode, covering promoter holding, share pledging, related party transactions, short selling mechanics, circuit limits, index concentration risk, SEBI's investigation, and a practical governance checklist every Indian retail investor can run on screener.in.
- Trace the Adani Group's story before the Hindenburg report
- Understand the crash and the governance concerns it raised
- Apply these lessons to your own investing decisions
Corporate Governance: Evaluating Management Quality
A practical course on judging the people running the companies you own. Learn to read promoter holding and pledges, board and auditor disclosures, related party transactions, capital allocation records, and SEBI and exchange filings for Indian listed companies, then turn it all into a repeatable governance scorecard using annual reports, BSE/NSE filings, and screener.in.
- Why governance quality drives long-term returns and valuation multiples in Indian markets
- How to read promoter holding, pledged shares, and group structures for warning signs
- How to evaluate board independence, auditor remarks, and managerial remuneration
Deep Dive into Financial Statement Fraud and Forensic Red Flags
A forensic course for investors who already read financial statements and now want to catch the ones that lie. Learn how Indian listed companies inflate revenue, hide expenses, fake cash, and dress up balance sheets, and how to detect it using annual report notes, auditor reports, BSE/NSE filings, screener.in data, and quantitative screens like the Beneish M-Score. Built on real Indian cases: Satyam, Manpasand Beverages, Brightcom, Gitanjali Gems, CG Power, DHFL, Ricoh India, and more.
- Why companies commit accounting fraud and where the pressure points sit in Indian promoter-led firms
- How revenue gets inflated through channel stuffing, round-tripping, and fake customers, and how to test it against receivables and cash
- How expenses get parked in the balance sheet through capitalisation, inventory games, and related party structures
Practice Drills: Identifying Corporate Governance Red Flags
A practice-first companion to Corporate Governance: Evaluating Management Quality. You already know what good governance is supposed to look like; this course makes you find the bad kind in real filings. Working with shareholding patterns, related party disclosures, board and auditor announcements, SEBI orders and exchange filings on NSE, BSE and Screener.in, you will build a governance red flag scorecard and drill it flag by flag: pledging and creeping dilution, money moving to group companies, weak boards, auditor exits, and management churn. The course closes with full drills that score companies side by side, replay the signals ahead of real Indian governance failures, and decide what to do when the flags show up in a stock you already own. Built for experienced retail investors, mutual fund investors and salaried professionals who want a repeatable governance check before they buy, or before they trust a fund that does.
- Locate every governance disclosure that matters in NSE and BSE filings, annual reports and Screener.in
- Build and apply a weighted governance red flag scorecard to any listed company
- Read shareholding patterns for pledging, promoter selling, warrants and creeping dilution