The D551 assessment
WGU does not publish assessment formats in the catalog. We confirm the current format for your exact catalog year at intake, and the fixed quote covers whichever assessment D551 carries.
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D551 Fraud and Forensic Accounting, completed for you
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D551 Fraud and Forensic Accounting (ACCT 5315, 3 CUs in the September 2026 WGU catalog) sits in term 1 of all four Master of Science in Accounting specializations: Auditing, Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, and Taxation, beside C204 Management Communication and D550 Ethics for Accountants. Per the catalog description it covers the types of fraud and their impact on organizations, the detection, investigation, and prevention of fraud, the role of forensic accountants in the legal system, and scenario-based hands-on exercises. Coursework Ninja completes D551 done-for-you, fixed quote in writing first. From $99. Independent of WGU.
WGU's published description frames Fraud and Forensic Accounting as an in-depth understanding of how fraud and forensic investigations fit inside the accounting profession: the various types of fraud and their impact on organizations, the detection, investigation, and prevention of fraud, the role forensic accountants play in the legal system, and the forensic accounting techniques used in financial investigations. Scenarios and hands-on exercises run through the course so the investigation skills get practiced, not just described.
Every M.S. Accounting student meets D551 in term 1 regardless of track, because it belongs to the six-course shared base all four specializations run before splitting. The degree's own framing names the Certified Fraud Examiners exam among the credentials its tracks can prepare you for, and this course is where that thread lives. Message us the code and where you stand, and we quote a flat price in writing.
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- Term 1 of all four M.S. Accounting specializations
- Detection, investigation, and prevention plus the legal-system role
- Folds into the $3,500 master's package with the 6-month guarantee
Every full package includes the written 6-month guarantee: we finish the remaining CUs under the agreed plan, or you do not pay. Packages: Bachelor's $3,000 · Master's $3,500 · both $5,500 · single assessments from $99.
Coverage
What D551 completion covers
Fraud types and organizational impact
The description's opening layer: the various types of fraud and how each one damages an organization. Scored work expects the type classified and the impact traced, not a generic definition of fraud.
Detection and investigation techniques
The working core of the course: how fraud is detected, how an investigation is run, and the forensic accounting techniques used in financial investigations. The catalog promises scenarios and hands-on exercises, so the method applied to a case is the scored skill.
Prevention
The third verb in the description: prevention. Expect deliverables that connect a detected scheme to the control that would have stopped it, which is where investigative answers and audit thinking meet.
The legal-system role
The description names the role of forensic accountants in the legal system directly: expert testimony, evidence handling, and the litigation support side of the profession. This is the row students skip because it reads like law, and it is graded.
The term-1 base it shares
D551 lands beside C204 Management Communication and D550 Ethics for Accountants in term 1 of every specialization. We sequence the three writing-heavy base courses on the written plan so none of them survives into the analytics term.
Full degree plan integration
D551 alone is a single from $99. On a remaining M.S. Accounting list it folds into the flat $3,500 master's package with the written 6-month finish guarantee covering every course on the plan, this one included.
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Bottlenecks
Where D551 stalls accounting students
D551 stalls accountants whose daily work is clean books and who meet a course graded on how dirty books get made and caught. These are the stalls we take over most often.
- Fraud types listed from memory instead of classified against the scenario in the task.
- Detection named as a concept with no investigation method attached to it.
- The prevention control never connected back to the scheme the case described.
- The legal-system row skipped entirely because it reads outside accounting.
- The course postponed past term 1 because the analytics pair looked scarier.
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Questions, answered
Per the September 2026 WGU institutional catalog, Fraud and Forensic Accounting (ACCT 5315, 3 CUs) provides an in-depth understanding of how fraud and forensic investigations are part of the accounting profession: the various types of fraud and their impact on organizations, the detection, investigation, and prevention of fraud, the role of forensic accountants in the legal system, and the use of forensic accounting techniques in financial investigations, with scenarios and hands-on exercises for practical experience.
Per the current catalog, all four Master of Science in Accounting specializations carry it in term 1: Auditing, Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, and Taxation. It is part of the shared base, not a track course. If your degree plan shows ACCT 5315, this is the course.
WGU does not publish assessment formats in the catalog. The description centers scenarios and hands-on exercises. We confirm the current format for your exact catalog year at intake, and the fixed quote covers whichever assessment the course carries.
The catalog description names none. It sits in term 1 of every M.S. Accounting specialization beside C204 Management Communication and D550 Ethics for Accountants, so the program treats it as a foundation rather than a gated course.
That framing comes from the degree, not the course page: WGU's M.S. Accounting program description names the Certified Fraud Examiners exam among the credentials its four tracks are designed to prepare learners to sit for, alongside the CPA Evolution, CMA, and CIA exams. D551 is the fraud and forensic course of the shared base. We complete the course; the certification exams themselves are separate, proctored, and stay with you.
One course starts at $99, with the exact figure fixed in writing once we know where you stand. On a longer remaining master's list, the master's package is $3,500 flat with the written 6-month finish guarantee covering every course on the plan, this one included.
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