Advanced Forensic Accounting – Norfolk, VA

I am offering my wholly unique and practical “Advanced Forensic Accounting” course on November 5, 2014 in Norfolk, VA. The course is worth 8 hours of CPE for CPAs, which should be accepted also for CFEs, CIAs and others who accept CPA CPE.

Using just three months of bank account information, will you be able to unravel “Sammy’s” plan? Lives may depend on it….

This unique and interactive course is designed primarily to influence the way that one approaches and thinks when analyzing financial records in the course of a fraud or financial investigation. It is an improved and appropriately modified course (i.e. nothing “classified”) that I developed and used to train new FBI Agents at the FBI Academy, many of whom had no prior investigative, audit or financial investigations experience. In 2013 and 2014, the SEC engaged me to present this course to many of its Enforcement Examiners and Examiners in most of its 11 Divisions.

The course begins with an introduction to critical thinking in an investigative context, followed by a discussion about how financial records can be used to profile a person and how that profile can be critical and useful in an investigation. Specific and technical steps are then discussed about collecting, organizing and analyzing financial information and how to document that analysis.

The vast majority of learning is through participation in and discussion about a detailed practical exercise where you are challenged with a forensic accounting role within a real-life scenario. In the scenario,you work in teams and are provided with three months of bank statements,including the supporting documentation for each transaction, and tasked to conduct analysis and live internet research using the techniques you have learned. The places and people in the scenario are mostly real or otherwise back-stopped on the internet to challenge and enthrall new and experienced financial investigators alike.

The practical based nature of this course, team-work (as small teams and as a larger class) and double-reinforcement of the learning through repeated application works, effectively impacting the way that you think and making you a better financial/fraud investigator.

The course not only works – it’s the most fun eight hours of CPE or similar training you’ll ever have outside of Hogan’s Alley!

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John has over 27 years of fraud investigations, forensic accounting, corporate compliance & ethics, and audit experience. He has applied his extensive experience in these areas across a wide array of areas and industries, frequently assisting counsel, government agencies and companies with internal corporate investigations and other matters arising from alleged fraud or misconduct. John is a thought leader and expert on Corporate Monitors/Compliance Monitors, a practice area involving the imposition of an independent third party by a gov't agency or department upon a corporation to verify that corporation’s compliance with the terms of a settlement agreement. John has previously served in a leadership role in a federal Monitorship and was involved in six other federal monitorships: three as the named Monitor, one as the "Independent Business Ethics Program Evaluator" and twice in support of the named Monitor. In these roles, John has reported to the Department of Justice, the Department of Interior, the Department of Transportation, the Small Business Administration, the Federal Highway Administration and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. His practical experience as a Corporate Monitor and extensive knowledge in this area was applied to the development of formalized Standards for Corporate Monitors through John's Membership on the Task Force on Corporate Monitor Standards of the American Bar Association. John is also the Founder of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors, a not-for-profit Membership association dedicated to the practice of corporate monitoring. John is a frequently sought speaker on the topic and has provided practical advice, ideas and strategies to lawyers, government officials, and corporate executives involved in such matters, as well as newly appointed Corporate Monitors. Prior to Artifice, John spent over 5 years as a leader in the fraud investigations and forensic accounting practice of a large publicly traded international financial consulting firm. Before that, he served for 10 years as an FBI Agent, specializing in complex fraud investigations. View all posts by The Fraud Guy

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