Why CSAR Certification?

So, you say you are an asset recovery^* professional?

You can hunt the flow of cash from New York to Nepal to Panama and Hong Kong and Tortola and back. You can walk into a courtroom in London with documents from Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands and get a freezing order served in Switzerland. You can run a spreadsheet with 5,000 transactions and identify the smoking gun or spot the one fraud needle in the haystack.

You are a specialist at locating and recovering the proceeds of fraud, corruption and other crimes; a champion who has spent a career trying to make victims whole and take back money from those who hold it improperly.

How do you show these skills? How do you prove it?

IAAR believes strongly that private and public sector professionals, primarily investigators, forensic accountants, lawyers and investigative analysts, can improve their skills and knowledge of essential, often obscure, tools that they can use to improve their success in tracing and recovering assets. In fraud cases, for example, the rate of recovery of amounts stolen by fraudsters is far less than 1 percent, if government figures for the total amounts recovered under all the asset forfeiture^* and recovery laws are accurate.

CSAR Certification Provides Career and Organizational Benefits

Asset recovery^* practitioners certified in the field of asset recovery^* enjoy personal and professional benefits that help create outstanding careers. At the same time, the certifiable skills of the persons that hold the CSAR credential give comfort to their private and public-sector employers that the supremely important work of recovering assets is being handled by persons who meet minimum standards of competence, knowledge and skill.

Some of these advantages of earning and holding the CSAR credential include:

• Assurance: With a CSAR certification, clients and employers know that you are eminently qualified to work in the field of asset recovery^*. They know that by virtue of certification, you are well-versed on asset recovery^* best practices, procedures and strategies. This trust makes you a more attractive candidate to turn to when needed by private or public sector organization, victim or client.
   
• Satisfaction: Happiness comes with a job well done, and with a CSAR credential you will be equipped to tackle any asset recovery^* task before you. No asset recovery^* effort will be beyond your ken.
   
• Personal and Professional Growth: Certification supports and enhances career advancement. Employers recognize that certified practitioners have the personal characteristics and technical skills that are assets to their institutions and are, demonstrably, high achievers.
   
• Income: The CSAR certification will in most cases translate directly into greater financial rewards for those who possess it because of the great value that a competent specialist in asset recovery^* can produce through his or her work. CSARs boast premium talents and skills in asset recovery^*, and they will be compensated as such.

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