Breakout Session Topics

Third Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference

Thursday
May 28

Phoenix Ballroom

Columbia Room

Phoenix Ballroom Salon IV

Atlanta Room

Conference Keynote Address

Luis Aguilar, SEC

Ponzi Schemes at the Local and State Level

Richard Barry
Sobel and Co.

Does a Downturn in the Economy Mean an Uptick in Fraud?

Ron Schwartz
Deloitte Financial Advisory

Fraud on the Bayou - A Case Study in Greed (a/k/a How Many Ways Can One Man Steal)

Holly Pierson
Morris, Manning & Martin

John Collier
Navigant Consulting

Fraud and Troubled Financial Institutions

Christopher Grippa
Alex Rey
Ernst & Young

A View from Washington - Current US Department of Justice and Congressional Investigative Priorities

Ralph Caccia
Akerman Senterfitt

Introduction to Money Laundering: A Law Enforcement Perspective

Craig Castiglia
IRS-CID

Financial Institution Fraud: Understanding What’s Going On

Philip Robertson
FDIC-OIG

International Fraud Cases and Terrorism Financing

Jaclyn Zappacosta
FBI

Red Flags and Red Herrings: Telling the Difference

Ronald Lundstrom
Lundstrom, LLC

Friday
May 29

Phoenix Room

Columbia Room

Phoenix Ballroom Salon IV

Atlanta Room

Mortgage Fraud

Barbara Nelan
United States Attorney's Office

Financial Institutions Risks "The Big Three"

Archie Bransford
Bransford & Associates, LLC

Business Fairy Tales: The Top Twenty Fictitious Financial Reporting Frauds and the Signals They Leave in Financial Statements

Cecil Jackson
University of Southern California

Demystifying IT Controls

Mike Morris
Porter Keadle Moore, LLP

Risk Management: A Preventative Control to Reduce Fraud

Fraud Examinations and Insurance Claims

Tom O’ Halloran
Forensic Solutions, LLC

Fraud Detection with ACL/ IDEA

Mark Lehman
Mississippi State University

An Open Dialogue on the Hot topics in Fraud and Forensic Accounting

Ken Yormark
LECG, LLC

A History of the Destruction of Value through Creative Corporate Fraud: Lessons in Integrity Learned through a Career Journey

Gregg K. Ficery
SVB Analytics, Inc.

Investigative Interview Techniques

Tim Madden
Connecticut State Police

Detecting Fraud Through Data Analysis
(Bring Charged-up Laptops for Software Loading and Hands-On Use)

Don Sparks/ Dana Newman
Audimation Services, Inc.

Business Valuations - Developing a Business Valuation Niche

Expert Testifying: Going Abroad

Tom Buckoff
Georgia Southern University

Detecting Fraud Through Data Analysis
(Bring Charged-up Laptops for Software Loading and Hands-On Use)

Don Sparks/ Dana Newman
Audimation Services, Inc.

Saturday
May 30

Phoenix Room

Columbia Room

Phoenix Ballroom Salon IV

Atlanta Room

“American Greed”

Aaron Beam
Health South

How Fraud-Based Legal Rulings
Influence Discretionary Accruals

John Paul
Pace University

Something’s Fishy at Jones Company – Classroom Exercise

Video

John Delaney
Jeff Coussens
Augustana College

Computer Forensics – What’s Involved

James G. Swearingen
Weber State University

Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Problem-Based Learning Case

Cindy Durtschi
DePaul University

Computer Forensic Fundamentals - Advanced

Robert Newman
Georgia Southern University