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Bears Will Be Bears - Fraudsters Too

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $109

Non-Member Price $139

Overview

Bears are intelligent and motivated to find food. When I left some fried chicken in my Jeep while in Gatlinburg, a bear tore a hole in the top and ate the chicken and part of my Jeep. He was just a bear being a bear. I'm responsible because I left the chicken in the Jeep and gave him the opportunity. Similarly, people are intelligent and motivated to survive. If we give them opportunity by not implementing good internal controls, they will take our assets. This session reviews the investigation and prosecution of the former director of a conference center who took advantage of lax internal controls of a joint-venture and stole thousands. She was just a fraudster being a fraudster.

Highlights

  • Internal Controls
  • Fraud Prevention
  • Fraud Detection
  • Fraud Investigation

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Finance management, business management, bookkeepers, accountants

Objectives

  • Learn the relationship between the three elements of fraud and how fraudsters think
  • Understand how internal controls prevent fraud
  • Learn the red flags to look for to identify fraud
  • Learn to investigate fraud

Preparation

None

Leader(s):

Leader Bios

Daniel Porter, The Pros & The Cons, LLC

Daniel Porter, CFE has conducted civil and criminal investigations for over 20 years as a licensed private investigator, a loss prevention manager, and as an investigator with the State of Tennessee. While he was Investigations Manager with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (an organization with over 4,000 employees and a budget of more than $1 Billion) he created an investigations section and was responsible for investigations of fraud, waste, and abuse. Currently, he is an investigator in the Special Investigations Unit in the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, of the State of Tennessee where he investigates fraud involving public funds. He is a Cum Laude graduate from Middle Tennessee State University’s Criminal Justice Program and a CFE. He has made presentations at AGA, IIA, and CFE conferences as well as to governmental agencies in various states including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and the Indiana CPA Society. He has provided law enforcement training certified by the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission. He is a guest lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University and the Vanderbilt University School of Law. He previously served as President and Vice President of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and was selected the Chapter’s Member of the Year in 2003.

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Non-Member Price $139

Member Price $109