Live In-Person Training: Use of Fraud Data Analytics to Uncover Fraud Schemes in Core Business Systems

July 12, 2022
8:00 am to 12:00 PM CST
Location:
KCPD Training Facility – Auditorium
6885 NE Pleasant Valley Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64119

Breakfast will be served (included in the event pricing). **Please note – if any special dietary needs are required, please email [email protected] no later than July 5, 2022 and we will attempt to accommodate**

Registration Ends: July 10, 2022, at 11:59 PM 

CPE & Registration

To support our chapter members in training and CPEs, the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners is pleased to announce a live in-person training event for the 2022 summary Workshop, Use of Fraud Data Analytics to Uncover Fraud Schemes in Core Business Systems for 4 hours CPE.

CPE will be sent out by August 9, 2022.

Payment & Cancellation

For those who join our local chapter as a due's paying member (click here to join!) you will be able to register for our discounted member rates!

Credit card payment is required for all registrations prior to the event; cash and check payments will not be accepted. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected].

If you need to cancel please refer to our cancellation policy: Event Cancellation Policy (kc-acfe.org)

Presentation

During this presentation, the following topics will be covered:

Use of Fraud Data Analytics to Uncover Fraud Schemes in Core Business Systems:

Finding fraud schemes hiding within core business systems requires skillful adjustments in your approach and technique. Mr. Vona has spent more than 30 years perfecting the science and art of using data analytics to search for fraud schemes, which differs from finding data anomalies. In this session you will learn a systematic approach to identifying fraud schemes and their relationship to data, including planning, pattern recognition and practical applications of analytics.

• Creating a Strategic Plan for Implementing a Robust Fraud Data Analytics Plan
• How to create a Data Intensive Fraud Audit Approach
• Ten steps to a Successful Fraud Data Analytics Plan
• Practical illustration of the Methodology: Searching for the Pass-Through Shell Company Scheme

About Our Guest Speaker:

Leonard W. Vona, CPA & CFE

Leonard W. Vona is the CEO of Fraud Auditing. He is a forensic accountant with more than 40 years of diversified auditing and forensic accounting experience, including a distinguished 18-year private industry career.  His firm advises clients in areas of litigation support, fraud risk, fraud data analytics and fraud auditing.

Mr. Vona is the author of three books published by Wiley, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program and The Fraud Audit: Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems, Fraud Data Analytics Methodology: The Fraud Scenario Approach to Uncovering Fraud. Wiley has referred to Mr. Vona as a worldwide renowned authority on internal fraud risk.

Mr. Vona has successfully conducted more than 100 financial investigations and fraud auditing engagements for some of the largest high-profile corporations in the United States.  The net result of his efforts has saved clients millions of dollars through recovery or defense strategies.  His financial investigation experience includes embezzlement, business disputes, asset theft, bribery & corruption, malpractice, and disbursement schemes.  Mr. Vona’s trial experience is extensive, including appearances in federal and state courts.  He is qualified as an expert witness, as a CPA and a CFE, and is cited in West Law for the successful use of circumstantial evidence. 

Mr. Vona lectures nationally and internationally on fraud risk assessments, fraud investigation, fraud prevention and detection, and fraud schemes perpetrated on companies. Mr. Vona has provided more than 1,000 days of fraud training to organizations around the world.  He has been on the faculty of the National Association of Fraud Examiners, MIS Training Institute and the faculty of Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He has written the training course on Auditors Responsibility for Detecting Fraud – SAS99 used by CPA Societies across the country. His international training experience includes five continents and training through interpreters in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian language. He regularly speaks at audit conferences.

Mr. Vona graduated from Siena College with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.  Mr. Vona is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  He was the 1994 President of the N.Y. Capital Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants and the founding President of the Albany Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners.

We hope to see you there!

Tickets

$40.00 Member Ticket

$50.00 Non-Member ticket