Program Description: Where Ethics, Skepticism, Fraud Risks & Auditing Intersect

Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Auditors:  

• Analyze the intertwined nature of business ethics, integrity, compliance & audit
• Brainstorm what we all could do right now to help leaders adjust to meet old, new and emerging business ethics and fraud challenges
• Discover ‘upstream solutions’ to ethical and fraud risks – blocking problems before they occur
• Analyze the barriers to skepticism in our thinking and our work
• Explore proven control and daily oversight actions for creating and maintaining a pro-ethics business environment – and how auditors can help sell these actions to managers and staff
• Examine efficient and effective auditor fraud risk brainstorming techniques
• Understand the three-steps needed on every audit project to surface hidden issues, including misconduct, theft and fraud

Better! Auditor Behavior, Communication & Influence Skills:  

• Explore mastery of the five critical auditor interpersonal skills: Intentional Presence, Rapport & Trust, Interviewing, Presenting & Action Influence 
• Understand the power of ‘stacking’ auditor technical, behavior, communication and influence skills – on every project
• Examine Critical Thinking practices – and how to make them muscle-memory habits in audit engagement planning and execution 
• Recognize how to see inconsistencies & mistakes in our own and others’ reasoning – and how to grow objectivity habits in the process
• Explore the key questions implicit in any Root Cause Analysis effort
• Analyze how to identify, construct & evaluate arguments – both for and against proposed management corrective action steps
• Brainstorm how to anticipate and head off differences of opinion – before they occur in audit interviews and meetings
• Explore how to lead managers to solutions through the questions we ask – not the recommendations we offer
• Discover how to make our ideas and action arguments ‘sticky’ – critical step for gaining management buy-in to recommendations

Presented By:  

John J. Hall, CPA, has worked as an auditor, professional speaker, consultant, and author for over 48-plus long, long, LONG years. He builds and delivers live and virtual keynote presentations, skills training seminars, webinars, and in-person conference main-stage keynote and technical-session breakout presentations for management and auditors, including over 3,500 live presentations to date.

John is best known for bringing practical, proven, efficient solutions to real-world business challenges (including especially ethics and fraud risks!!!) faced by clients and program participants. 

John is the founder and President of Hall Consulting, Inc. In addition to 35-plus years as a self-employed speaker, auditor and consultant, John has worked in senior leadership positions in large corporations and international public accounting and consulting firms. He’s a member of the National Speakers Association, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Institute of Internal Auditors.

When:

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Program:    8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (CST)
Registration & Breakfast:    7:30 AM – 8:00 AM (CST)
Lunch:    12:00 PM – 12:30 PM (CST)
Zoom participants will not need to log in until 7:50 AM (CST)