Financial Investigations
Whatever your beat – from politics or conflict, to sport, fashion or travel – pursuing impactful investigations requires journalists to examine the actions of private companies. Despite a world of corporate PR spin and complex financial structures that often work to obscure what’s actually going on, there are a wealth of tools and techniques to help investigators.
Knowing what you can find, where to look for it and how to make sense of it, both for yourself and for your readers, will allow you to explore and understand financial details so you can draw conclusions and drive your projects forward.
This training provides tools for deep financial research and guides participants through investigations that lead to offshore accounts in secrecy jurisdictions.
Class size: max 12 people.
Technical Requirements
This course will need you to have the following software/apps/tools on your computer:
- Zoom app
- Camera and audio
This course will be hosted on Zoom. To find out more about how we use Zoom, please check out our Zoom InfoSec page.
Course Structure
Exercises and additional viewing of tutorial videos will be provided to supplement the training between sessions.
Important
Our training is not recorded: if you miss a session, it is lost – you cannot watch a recording of it, nor will you be allowed to attend that session at a later date.
Daniel Balint-Kurti
Diogo Augusto
Dylan Kennedy
Leigh Baldwin
- 7 February 2023 10.00–12.00 Timezone: GMT (UK Time)
- 8 February 2023 10.00–13.30 Timezone: GMT (UK Time)
- 9 February 2023 10.00–13.30 Timezone: GMT (UK Time)
The Investigative Journalist’s Guide to Company Accounts
by Raj Bairoliya
An introduction from the author, Raj Bairoliya A little history is in order. A dozen or so years ago, I was complaining to my friend Michael Gillard about the standard of financial investigative journalism in the UK – it was a matter of serious concern to me as I make my living from investigating wrongdoing.
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