About the presenter
Doug Cash is certified as a fraud examiner, forensic interviewer, and a financial crimes investigator along with being a private investigator. He has more than 27 years of experience in law enforcement and over 13 years of experience in forensic accounting examinations with Eide Bailly, LLP in Fargo, North Dakota. He specializes in white-collar crime and investigating fraud.
Doug has served as lead investigator in various types of fraud-related investigations, including embezzlement, money laundering, identity theft, Ponzi and pyramid schemes as well as theft by misrepresentation. He’s a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators, and the International Association of Interviewers.
8:30 a.m. Start Out the Right Way
- Understanding confirmation bias
- Cost of not knowing the truth
- How to read handshakes
9:00 a.m. Asking the Right Questions the Right Way and Avoiding Contamination
- Are your questions causing the subject to be defensive?
- Why do we miss things?
9:30 a.m. The Stages of any Interview
- Four common steps
- Orientation, narration, cross-examination, resolution
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. The Mechanics of Memory and Human Emotions
- How we store Information
- Left vs. Right Brain
- Understanding human emotions
11:00 a.m. Understanding Truth and Deception
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:15 p.m. The Science of Human Communication: Recognizing Indicators and Body Movement
- Types of human communications
- Verbal & Non-verbal Indicators
- Types of gestures
1:45 p.m. 10 Tell-tale Signs of Deception
- Finding the right narrative balance
- Mean length of utterance
- Written statements
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Do Not Destroy your Proceeding
- The importance of demeanor
- What to avoid when asking questions
- Interviewer tone and attitude
3:00 p.m. Finishing up the Right Way & the 7 Deadly Sins of Interviewing
- Closing an interview
- How to avoid issues
- Issue discussion
3:15 p.m. Question and Answer Time
3:30 p.m. Program Concludes
- Recognize the purpose of the investigative proceeding and the costs of not getting the truth
- Know how to set the stage for a productive interview
- Understand how to structure your interview questions and avoid contamination
- Learn how to distinguish truth from deception
- Assess the importance of your own demeanor and biases
- Avoid problems by closing your interview the right way
- New lawyers
- Criminal defense attorneys
- Prosecutors
- Civil litigators
- Corporation counsel
- Mediators
- Arbitrators
- Fraud examiners
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