Built for the sectors where the money moves
Programmes / 01
Six programmes open now, each written for a specific seat in the organisation. Every one uses East African cases: the procurement file, the SACCO loan book, the vendor payment run, rather than imported material that never touches how fraud actually moves here.
Corporate · Flagship
Our deepest engagement. We map where your organisation is actually exposed, take the findings to the executive team, train the roles that carry the risk, redesign the controls that failed, and leave behind indicators your own people can monitor.
Commissioned byCEOs, CFOs, heads of internal audit, chief risk officers and audit committee chairs. Phase 1 can be bought on its own.
Certificate · Foundational
The grounding every anti-fraud professional needs: how occupational fraud schemes are built, where they surface in the records, how the fraud triangle plays out in practice, and what separates suspicion from evidence.
Built forInternal auditors, compliance officers, risk analysts, accountants and graduates entering the profession.
Certificate · Practitioner
Running a case from allegation to report. Planning the investigation, sequencing the evidence, conducting admission-seeking interviews without contaminating them, and writing findings that survive an HR panel, a tribunal or a courtroom.
Built forInvestigators, forensic auditors, HR investigators, security managers and in-house counsel.
Certificate · Cyber
The digital side of financial crime, taught for fraud people rather than engineers. Business email compromise, vendor impersonation, account takeover, mobile money fraud, synthetic identities, and what generative AI has changed about all of them.
Built forFinance and treasury teams, IT auditors, fraud analysts, operations risk and branch management.
Workshop · Risk & controls
Building a fraud risk register that is actually used. Identifying schemes by process, scoring likelihood and impact honestly, mapping existing controls against them, and finding the gaps before an auditor or a fraudster does.
Built forRisk officers, internal audit teams, process owners and second-line compliance functions.
Executive · Board briefing
Half-day sessions for people who sign approvals rather than test them. Six titles covering board oversight duties, the AI threat landscape, control-failure post-mortems, and the first 48 hours of an investigation.
Built forBoards, audit and risk committees, executive committees and senior management teams.
Curriculum / 02
Fraud, control failure and cybercrime are the same problem seen from three seats. Modules stack into pathways, so a short course you take this year counts toward a full qualification next year.
For the people who have to prove it. Detection, examination, evidence and reporting: the technical core of the profession.
For the people who have to prevent it. Where control design meets fraud prevention, and the bridge between our training and our advisory work.
Our differentiator: two decades of IT and cybersecurity practice, translated for auditors and investigators rather than engineers.
Structured routes rather than isolated courses. Each pathway stacks modules from the schools above into a completed Academy qualification, with a capstone case file assessed by faculty.
Method / 03
Every module opens with a real report: a payables run, a loan book extract, a system log, and the question every fraud examiner is paid to answer. Which of these rows deserves a second look, and what do you do next without alerting the person responsible?
Illustrative extract. Corporate participants work on anonymised data from their own systems.
Corporate / 04
Training alone changes what people know. This changes what happens on Monday. Phases can be commissioned together or one at a time, and the diagnostic stands alone if you only want to know where you are.
We map fraud exposure across processes, systems, vendors and delegated authority, then rank it by loss potential.
2 to 3 weeksFindings taken to the leadership team, with decisions recorded against named owners and dates.
1 daySeparate sessions for finance, procurement, IT, branch and front line, using your own scenarios.
2 to 5 weeksWe rebuild the controls that failed the diagnostic and support you through putting them into operation.
3 to 4 weeksIndicators, reporting lines and a review cycle, so exposure is tracked rather than rediscovered after a loss.
Handover plus reviewAbout / 05
Africa's fraud and cybercrime losses are growing faster than the number of professionals qualified to investigate them. Most training available locally is either generic compliance content or imported material that never touches how fraud actually moves through a Kenyan bank, SACCO or county government.
The people who help build a profession are the right people to teach it.
Our founder taught fraud examination in Nairobi between 2007 and 2009, in the years when the profession was first taking root in Kenya. Practice took over from teaching: audit, investigation, technology and risk. Amara Capital Academy brings that teaching back, with two decades of casework behind it.
Instruction is practitioner-led rather than delivered by career trainers. Every session is taught by someone who has run the investigations, sat in the audit committee, and rebuilt the controls afterwards, and every case used in class comes from this region. We are currently appointing associate faculty across fraud examination, investigation and law, and will publish them here as they are confirmed.
The Academy is one of five business lines under Amara Capital, alongside its entrepreneurship, investor readiness, sales and leadership programmes. That gives participants access to a wider professional network than a standalone training company can offer.
Our position on certification: the Academy awards its own certificates and pathways, and teaches the underlying discipline rather than one examination syllabus. Where a globally recognised credential exists, we will prepare candidates for it only once the relevant authorisation is formally in place, and we will state that plainly here when it is.
Calendar / 06
Cohorts are scheduled as they fill, so dates are set with the group rather than fixed a year ahead. Tell us which programme you want and roughly when suits you, and we will confirm dates within two working days. In-house delivery runs at any time of year, on your calendar and with your own data.
| Programme | Length | Mode | Fee | Next intake |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraud Examination FundamentalsFoundational certificate | 5 days, 40 hours | Nairobi or live online | KSh 65,000 | Dates on request |
| Cyber Fraud, BEC & AI-Enabled CrimeCertificate | 3 days, 24 hours | Nairobi or live online | KSh 58,000 | Dates on request |
| Fraud Risk Assessment & Control DesignWorkshop | 2 days, 16 hours | Nairobi or live online | KSh 42,000 | Dates on request |
| Fraud Investigation & Investigative InterviewingPractitioner certificate | 4 days, 32 hours | Nairobi, in person | KSh 78,000 | Dates on request |
| Executive & Board Masterclass SeriesSix titles, choose one | Half day | Your boardroom or retreat | From KSh 250,000 | By arrangement |
| Fraud & Cybercrime in East AfricaPublic webinar | 90 minutes | Online | Free | Monthly |
Insights / 07
Short, technical write-ups of the schemes we are seeing in East African organisations. Written for practitioners, published free, and used as teaching material in our own classrooms. The first three are in preparation. Subscribe below and they reach you as they publish.
Business email compromise rarely breaks a system. It breaks a process, usually the one where a supplier's account number can be updated by email without a callback to a number you already hold.
In preparationThree invoices, same vendor, same day, each just under the limit that would have required a second signature. The control worked exactly as designed. That was the problem.
In preparationWhy a portfolio with suspiciously few arrears deserves more scrutiny than one with many, and the four tests that separate a good credit officer from a manufactured one.
In preparationQuestions / 08
The questions we are asked most often, answered directly. If yours is not here, ask us. We would rather tell you we are the wrong fit than take a booking that disappoints.
No. Amara Capital Academy is an independent training provider, and every certificate and pathway on this site is our own. Our founder holds the CFE credential and was part of the founding team that established the ACFE Kenya Chapter, but that is a personal credential and a chapter history, not an institutional affiliation. We do not currently offer preparation for externally awarded certifications, and we will say so plainly here if that ever changes.
Not for Fraud Examination Fundamentals or the cyber programmes. They assume no prior fraud training and start from first principles. The investigation and forensic accounting modules do assume you can read a set of financial records, and we will tell you honestly at enquiry stage if a different starting point suits you better.
Each programme carries an Amara Capital Academy certificate of completion, issued on passing the assessment. Completing four modules plus a capstone in one discipline earns the corresponding Academy pathway qualification, for example Fraud Risk Professional. Module credits are valid for 36 months, so a pathway can be built one course at a time.
Contact hours are stated for every programme and recorded on your certificate. Whether those hours are recognised depends on your professional body's own rules. ICPAK, IIA Kenya, ISACA and the Law Society each set their own criteria. We are happy to provide programme outlines and attendance records to support your submission.
Yes, and it is what we recommend for teams of eight or more. In-house delivery lets us build the case material from your own processes and anonymised data, which changes the quality of the training considerably. In-house programmes can be scheduled at any point in the year and delivered at your premises or online.
A written fraud risk profile: exposure mapped by process and system, ranked by loss potential, with the specific control weaknesses that create each exposure and a prioritised remediation sequence. It is scoped to be usable on its own. You are not obliged to commission the remaining phases, and plenty of clients start there to establish a baseline.
Fees are payable in full before the programme starts, and invoices are issued to organisations on request. Transfers to a later cohort are free up to seven days before the start date. Cancellations inside seven days are credited against a future programme rather than refunded. Group bookings of three or more attract a discount, so ask when you enquire.
Yes. Open cohorts run in Nairobi, but in-house and executive programmes are delivered across East and Southern Africa, and live-online delivery removes the travel question entirely. Regional pricing and travel costs are quoted at scoping stage.
Next intake
Whether that is a place in the next cohort, a diagnostic for your organisation, or a briefing for your board.
Contact / 09
We reply within two working days with a straight answer on whether we are the right fit, including when we are not.
Privacy / 10
We teach people to protect other people's data, so we are careful with yours. This notice explains what we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.
Amara Capital Academy, a division of Amara Capital, Nairobi, Kenya. We are the data controller for the information described here. Contact us at academy@amaracapital.academy or +254 718 685 580.
Your name, email address, phone number, employer, job title and the details you choose to give us about your training needs. Nothing else, and no tracking beyond basic site analytics.
To answer your enquiry, quote for training, register you on a programme and issue your certificate. We contact you about future programmes only if you have separately asked us to.
Nobody, other than the service providers who host our forms and email, and only so far as they need it to run those services. We do not sell or rent your details, and we do not share them with other training providers.
Enquiry records for two years from your last contact with us. Records of people who attend a programme for seven years, so that we can verify certificates and meet tax and audit obligations.
Under the Data Protection Act 2019 you may ask to see the information we hold, correct it, have it deleted, or withdraw consent at any time. Write to academy@amaracapital.academy and we will respond within seven days.
Where a corporate client asks us to build case material from their own records, we work on anonymised extracts under a non-disclosure agreement, and no client data is ever used in another client's classroom.
If you believe we have mishandled your information, tell us first so we can put it right. You may also complain to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
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