Be Proactive, Not Reactive in the Fight Against Fraud in Your Organization

Event Cost

Type	Before 1/15/2016	Between 1/15/2016 and 1/28/2016
Members	$ 35.00	$ 50.00
Government / Partner Colleagues	$ 40.00	$ 55.00
Non-members	$ 50.00	$ 65.00

Event Description

Chicago Metro Chapter of the IGFOA Presents:
The 2016 Fraud Awareness Seminar – Be Proactive, Not Reactive in the Fight Against Fraud in Your Organization
It seems you can’t turn on the news these days without hearing about another incident of fraudulent activity.  Increasingly these stories are related to local governments in Illinois.  In fact over 250 local governmental entities in Illinois were victims of significant fraudulent activity in the last two years alone.  Is your organization next?  Is your organization prepared?  As a Finance Director are you going to be proactive in preventing fraud or reactive when it happens to you?  This seminar will help you gain an understanding on the prevalence of fraud, understand the human actions that are behind every fraud, learn from the example of Dixon Illinois and finally how to begin implementing an annual fraud risk assessment program.   

Intended Audience: All Finance Professionals

AGENDA

A. Key Note:  Bringing Freud to Fraud - Dr. David “Daven” E.  Morrison III
Daven is the author of the book “A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics – Applying Psychology to Financial Fraud Prevention and Detection”.  This session will focus less on the how of fraud, and more on the why, with an examination of fraud as a result of human behavior.  Dr. Morrison III is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behaviroal Sciences at Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.  An advisor to the Institute of Fraud Prevention (IFP) of West Virginia University since 2008, he is also a past president of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) member, and a Tompkins Institute of Applied Studies in Motivation, Emotion and Cognition board member.  He works full time as a principal at Morrison Associates, Ltd., with a career focused on leadership and executive development. 
Learning Objectives: Participants completing the Bringing Freud to Fraud session should be able to:

• Learn how the basics of human behavior tie into fraud
• An understanding of the fraud triangle and beyond
• The bad apple, bad bushel, and bad crop (A.B.C. Theory)
• The relevance of behavioral approaches

Speaker: Dr. David “Daven” E.  Morrison III 
Delivery method: Group-Live
Program Level: Overview
Prerequisites: No prerequisites required
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation required
Field of Study: Business Management and Organization
Earn about 2.0 CPE Credit

B. How Dixon, Illinois Become the Victim of Embezzlement
Description: The Dixon Illinois embezzlement scheme was perpetrated by a trusted and long-term employee. This session will describe and demonstrate the methods used by Rita Crundwell to embezzle $54,000,000 from the City of Dixon, Illinois over 22 years.
Learning Objectives: Participants completing the How Dixon, Illinois Become the Victim of Embezzlement session should be able to:
• Understand methods used in the Dixon embezzlement scheme 
• Identify internal controls to mitigate risk of embezzlement at your entity 
• Learn how to detect employee fraud 
• Explore Dixon’s response to the embezzlement 
Speaker: Paula Meyer, City of Dixon 
Delivery method: Group-Live
Program Level: Overview
Prerequisites: No prerequisites required
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation required
Field of Study: Business Management and Organization
Earn about 1.0 CPE Credit

C. Where to Start the Fight?  Implementing an Annual Fraud Risk Assessment Program
Description: This session will focus on where to begin in being proactive versus reactive, how to implement a fraud risk assessment program and getting the discussion of fraud started in your organization.  Additionally, the speaker will relay his personal experiences as a Finance Director when on 2 separate occasions it was uncovered that fraud had been occurring. 
Learning Objectives - Participants completing the Where to Start the Fight?  Implementing an Annual Fraud Risk Assessment Program session should be able to:
•  Understand the difference in being proactive versus reactive in preventing fraud.
•  Identify ways to hold discussions on fraud within your organization
•  Learn how to develop and implement a fraud risk assessment program
Speaker: Tim Sloth, Village of Winnetka 
Delivery method: Group-Live
Program Level: Overview
Prerequisites: No prerequisites required
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation required
Field of Study: Business Management and Organization
Earn about 1.0 CPE Credit

Presented by the Chicago metro chapter