Financial Transactions Integrity Protection |CCM| Compliance Seminar

Course Description:

According to the ACFE’s Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse, the typical organization loses 5% of its revenues to fraud each year.

Are you confident that the financial transactions within your company protected? Have you recently conducted a fraud risk assessment and does your internal controls program properly mitigate risk? Do you have an updated and robust internal controls program that focuses on mitigating the greatest fraud risks? Are your employees aware of the fraud flags within all financial transaction business processes? Do your employees know what to do if they find a fraud? Is your company aware of its compliance requirements and the potential impact of non-compliance?

This seminar will provide answers to all these questions and will arm you with a toolkit that will help you immediately protect the integrity of your financial transactions and address the risk of fraud. The course will focus on Purchasing, Accounts Payable, P-Card, T&E, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Inventory, and Financial Reporting.

The one-and-a-half day seminar will provide proven internal controls standards that have been implemented at Fortune 100 companies and were instrumental in correcting the control issues and preventing future fraud at MCI (formally WorldCom). The instructor will explain how Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) can be implemented in your organization as an internal controls best practice. Actual fraud case studies will be reviewed and processes to prevent the same from happening again will be discussed. Seminar attendees will receive a Fraud Risk Assessment and Prevention Toolkit that will assist in the protection of the integrity of their company’s financial transactions.

Learning Objectives:

Key goals of this course are:

To provide the awareness of the types of fraud that can impact an organization
To review the importance of “tone at the top” and how to implement a business ethics process
To provide a roadmap for conducting a Fraud Risk Assessment and mapping the control to the risk
To learn about the details of two critical corporate level controls and how these controls can protect your company

Delegation of Authority
Segregation of Duties

To discuss the specific flags that indicate a financial transaction fraud
The course will focus on the following business processes:

Purchasing
Accounts Payable
P-Card
T&E
Accounts Receivable
Payroll
Inventory
Financial Reporting

To discuss key case studies and how the fraud could have been prevented

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC)
International ACH Transactions (IAT)
The Office of Inspector General (OIG)

To review the key concepts and implementation steps of CCM

Who will Benefit:

CFOs, Controllers
Finance and accounting personnel
Business process owners
CAEs
Internal auditors, internal control managers and directors
Personnel in legal department
Regulatory and compliance officers
Risk managers

Course Outline:

Day One (8:30 AM – 4:30 PM)

Day Two (8:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Registration Process: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Session Start Time: 9:00 AM

Understanding the Basics (1 Hour)

Fraud Awareness 101

The Impact of Fraud
The Fraud Triangle
The Fraud Diamond
Types of Fraud
The Business Processes Impacted

“Tone at the Top” and Corporate Level Controls (1 Hour)

“Tone at the Top” and Business Ethics

Implementing a Business Ethics Process: Ten Key Steps
Examples: Code of Conducts
Roles and Responsibilities
Whistleblower Protection

Two Critical Corporate Controls

Delegation of Authority
Segregation of Duties

Entity Level Controls

Definition
Example: Entity Level Controls Questionnaire

Case Studies: When “Tone at the Top” is Flawed

WorldCom
Enron
HealthSouth

Preventing and Detecting Financial Transaction Fraud (5 Hours)

Standards of Internal Controls
What is Financial Transaction Fraud?

Definition
Examples

What Business Processes are impacted?

Purchasing
Accounts Payable
P-Card
T&E
Accounts Receivable
Payroll
Inventory
Financial Reporting

Fraud Flags and Internal Controls

Purchasing
Accounts Payable
P-Card
T&E
Accounts Receivable
Payroll
Inventory
Financial Reporting

Financial Transaction Fraud Case Studies

What Went Wrong?
Prevention and Detection

Welcome (15 Minutes)

Compliance Consideration (2 Hours)

The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC)
International ACH Transactions (IAT)
The Office of Inspector General (OIG)
Massive Fines for Non-Compliance

Wal-Mart
Chiquita
Avon

Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) (2 Hours)

Definition
The Pros and Cons
Alternatives
Implementation Roadmap

The CCM Toolkit ( 45 Minutes)

Example Policies
Compliance Programs
References and Links

Meet Your Instructor

Chris Doxey
CAPP, CCSA, CICA

Chris Doxey, is currently an independent management consultant specializing in internal controls, compliance, corporate governance and policy, procure-to-pay, supplier management, financial system architecture, and financial business process best practices. Ms. Doxey has held senior financial management and controller positions at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett Packard, MCI, APEX Analytix, and BSI Healthcare. She was recruited to lead the Sarbanes Oxley effort at MCI (formally WorldCom) because of her extensive background in internal controls.

She is a Certified Accounts Payable Professional (CAPP), holds a Certification in Controls Self -Assessment (CSA), and also is a Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA). She has developed a certification program for controllers for the Institute of Finance and Management (IOFM). She has also written a controller’s best practices guide and has developed a controller’s toolkit. She recently completed a significant project which resulted in the implementation of a new budget process for a global government contractor.

She is a long time member of the Institute of Financial Operations (IFO), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the Institute for Internal Controls (TheIIC). She is a member of the advisory board for TheIIC and is president of the Washington DC area chapter for both the IFO and TheIIC organizations.

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