A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope. Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere, from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly. Each year, consumers, small businesses, governments, and corporations lose trillions of dollars to financial crime. We're so accustomed to hearing about fraud that our abilities to identify it and speak about it are limited. No more. In "Fool Me Once," renowned forensic accounting expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous, while also encouraging us to look at our own behaviors and motivations in the hope of protecting ourselves and our companies. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a better understanding of--and perhaps even compassion for--perpetrators, a renewed connection to victims, and an appreciation for those who blow the whistle. Filled with fascinating stories and insightful analysis, "Fool Me Once" will open your eyes and challenge your thinking. It will inspire you to question your own preconceived notions about fraud. It will challenge your beliefs about yourself and other people. And it will help you understand a phenomenon that most of us fail to grasp--until it's too late.

CPE: 2 hours

Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

The current market landscape, both for business in general and for internal audit (IA) specifically, is changing, growing, and evolving at an absolutely rapid pace. So much so, we are finding that traditional internal auditing doesn’t work anymore. We need a way of approaching our work that is efficient, collaborative, and focused on change, which is why our team took on Agile practices in our internal audits. As the businesses and organizations we work for change and adapt to how they meet their customers’ needs, we also need to adjust how we work to deliver the most value in the least amount of time and with less resources. We also want to make sure that the way we work focuses on individual growth and autonomy, fostering a culture where people feel like they’re a part of a collaborative team but also have the space to make important individual contributions.

We have helped many audit teams develop Agile and are bringing one of our recent clients who went through an Agile transformation with his department to showcase that Agile can provide your team with the flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of your customers, an emphasis on delivering the most value and delivering it quickly, and a team structure that promotes cross-functional and adaptable teams that can flex to fit the departments’ needs and your customers needs.

The learning objectives for this session are: 

1. Give the audience an Agile overview.
2. Explain how we use Agile to tranform internal audits.
3. Highlight the benefits of Agile IA.
4. Spotlight a recent success story.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Intermediate

Prerequisites: None

With the proliferation of automation, including Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and other technologies, it is critical that Internal Auditors participate in the design and monitor the operation of strong governance structures to ensure that the widening application of these technologies is properly considered and controlled.  Risk Assessments, ERM, SOX, etc. must include a review and testing of the governance built around these programs.  
Automation can have a massively transformative impact on your company, for good or for ill.  Internal audit must be in the middle of this conversation and be positioned to periodically test the governance structure in general, and specifically to IT, and most specifically to all automation.

The learning objectives for this session are: 

1. Articulate the risks of automation, including RPA, AI, ML, OCR, NLP, etc.
2. Understand how internal audit should play a role in the design of the governance structures around these technologies
3. Describe elements of a strong automation governance program

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Investigate an ethical dilemma with Red Flag Mania, where you and your team determine the outcome. Lives are at stake, but so is the bottom line. As an excutive, your decisions matter. Time is ticking, the company is burning through money, and stakeholders are at odds. Choose your own adventure, the ultimate decisions are in your hands.

CPE: 2 hours

Field of Study: Behavioral Ethics

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

Business opportunities and risks are constantly changing in today’s environment. Traditional risk assessments are not enough anymore. Enterprise risk management (ERM) redefines the risk approach to be integrated with strategy-setting and drive the right decisions that meet present and emerging needs. During this session, we will discuss ERM and how it’s come to inform the internal audit process.

This session will:

1. Understanding the fundamentals of ERM 
2. Learning how to design an ERM process  
3. Understanding the common pitfalls to getting started and sustaining ERM over time    

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Auditing

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None

There is an estimated 7.9 Trillion dollars of lost productivity in the workplace due to disengagement.

How do we make work, less work? 

We are in the midst of a crisis of commitment in the workplace—organizations are searching for engaged employees (“talent”) and employees are looking for a place to thrive. Both are struggling. What if the issue isn’t good or bad culture, but the fit between our ideal work way of working day-to-day and that of the companies we join. If we fit, we hum, we connect, we create momentum and do our best work with grace and ease because our creative energy is not eaten up in coordination cost and deciphering how to be a success–we just are. But the wrong fit has serious consequences. It can erode performance, drive up frustration, and steal our competence. The good news is, there is a way forward. Through his decades of experience and exhaustive research, including in-depth interviews with knowledge workers and leaders from all walks of life, Dr. Martin guides talent and organizations to find right fit.

The point. When the way a company works matches the natural preferences of its talent, the result is pure magic. To get there, we need to be much clearer about our work principles, practices and platforms, especially in a hybrid world.

CPE: 1 hour

Field of Study: Personnel/Human Resources

Knowledge Level: Basic

Prerequisites: None