Schedule
of Events*
Day
One
7:30
– 8:10
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:10
– 8:20
Welcome and Introduction
Glyn Smith, Principal, The CooperGroup, LLC
Cynthia Walker, President, IIA Nashville Chapter
8:20
– 10:00
Enron and Leadership:
Bulletproofing Your Organization is Simple but not Easy
Sherron Watkins, Former Vice President of Enron
One of Time Magazine’s
Persons of the Year
·
What went wrong at Enron
·
Lessons for finance and legal professionals
·
What you can do to avoid the pitfalls
10:00
– 10:20
Networking Break
10:20
– 11:10
The Financial Meltdown and Recent Scandals
Cynthia Cooper, Founder and CEO,
The CooperGroup, LLC
One of Time Magazine’s
Persons of the Year
·
What caused the financial crisis and what does it mean for your organization
·
Common threads, risk indicators and lessons learned
·
Building a strong ethical foundation that will lead to sustainable success
·
Practical strategies for fraud prevention and detection
11:10
– 12:00
Assessing Fraud Risk:
Everybody’s Business
Glyn Smith, Principal, The CooperGroup, LLC
Featured Interview on CNBC’s
American Greed
·
Three common failures sure to sink a fraud risk assessment
·
Performing a meaningful fraud risk assessment: It takes a village
·
Blinders off: A broader view of
fraud risk
·
Mind the gaps: How to
effectively address unmitigated risk
12:00
– 12:45
Lunch
12:45
– 1:35
Ponzi Schemes & Bernard Madoff:
The Unraveling of Investment Schemes During the Financial Crisis
Trent Watrous, Partner, Whisenant, Stewart, Watrous & Associates, PLLC
Co- Author of 7 Chinks in Your
Experts Armour
·
Defining the true Ponzi Scheme:
Was Madoff the Real Thing?
·
Appearances of a Ponzi Scheme:
Outside Looking In; Inside Looking Out
·
Pitfalls of Ponzi Schemes:
Proceeds, Paybacks & Records
·
Investigative Lessons Learned:
The Need to Know
1:35
– 2:30
My 35 Years as a Fraud Investigator:
Lessons and Best Practices from the Front Lines
Martin Biegelman, Director of Financial Integrity, Microsoft Corporation
Co-Author of Executive Roadmap to
Fraud Prevention and Internal Control: Creating a Culture of Compliance
·
Unheeded warning signs
·
The criminal mindset
·
Unique fraud theories
·
Best practices in fraud detection, investigation and prevention
2:30
– 2:50
Networking Break
2:50
– 3:40
Ethics
Mark Rowe
3:40
- 4:30
The Evil That is Identity Theft: The Past, Present, and Future of this
Global Epidemic
Martin Biegelman, Director of Financial Integrity, Microsoft Corporation
Region Emeritus and Fellow of the Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners
·
History and explosive growth of identity theft
·
Violent side of identity theft
·
The rich, the famous, and the deceased as targets
·
Terrorism and identity theft
·
The 21 prevention rules you must use to stop identity theft
Day
Two
7:30
– 8:20
Continental Breakfast
8:20
– 10:00
WorldCom: Unraveling the
Largest Corporate Fraud in History
Cynthia Cooper, Founder and CEO,
The CooperGroup, LLC
Author of Extraordinary Circumstances,
a book about her experiences at WorldCom
·
The rise and fall of a behemoth
·
Identifying the fraud
·
The aftermath and lessons learned
·
Who commits fraud and why
·
Ten tips to help recognize and sort through ethical dilemmas
10:00
– 10:20
Networking Break
10:20
– 11:10
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines:
What you must know
Paul Fiorelli, J.D./M.B.A., Co-Director of the Cintas Institute for Business
Ethics Professor of Legal Studies, Xavier University
Selected as a member of the Advisory Group to the United States Sentencing
Commission to review portions of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
·
Who are some of the most effective allies in compliance?
Auditors!
·
Why comply? How do the Federal
Sentencing Guidelines impact individuals and businesses?
·
The surprising synergies between COSO and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
11:10
– 12:00
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act:
The Worldwide Fight Against Bribery and Corruption
Martin Biegelman, Director of Financial Integrity, Microsoft Corporation
Author of Foreign Corrupt Practices
Compliance Guidebook, to be published in 2010
·
A history of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
·
Business, financial, legal, and reputational risks associated with bribery
and corruption worldwide
·
FCPA red flags and worldwide hotspot of corruption
·
Designing and implementing an effective anti-corruption program
·
Case studies FCPA violations and enforcement actions including the largest
ever case against Siemens
12:00
– 12:45
Lunch
12:45
– 1:35
Open - TBD
1:35
– 2:30
Ethics & Compliance Programs: How Implementing a Best Practice
Program Can Safeguard your Organization
Emil Moschella, Ethics and Compliance
Implemented a corporate style compliance program at the FBI- the first of
its kind for the federal government
·
The threat of Qui Tam lawsuits
·
Why ethics and compliance programs matter
·
Overcoming roadblocks of program implementation
·
The relationship between compliance and fraud prevention
·
Doing it the right way: elements of an
effective compliance program
2:30
– 2:45
Networking Break
2:45
– 3:35
HealthSouth: Collapse of a Rehab Empire
Gerry Kelly, Manager, Whisenant, Stewart, Watrous & Associates, PLLC
Served as the FBI Case Agent on the HealthSouth investigation
·
Richard Scrushy’s Management Style
·
Topside Entries and “Angel Dust”
·
Developing Witnesses: When CFOs
Roll
·
Prosecuting the “Preacher”
3:40
- 4:30
Panel Discussion
Ethical Leadership:
Where do we go from here?
Moderator:
Glyn Smith
Panelist:
Cynthia Cooper, Martin Biegelman, and Trent Watrous
An interactive discussion with a distinguished panel about challenges on the
horizon and how we address them.
Questions from participants are welcomed.
*
Schedule is subject to change.
A
link to print presentation materials will be emailed to attendees prior to
the conference.
About
the Conference:
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Learning
Objectives:
·
Reviewing practical strategies for recognizing ethical dilemmas, thinking
them through and making the right decisions
·
Recognizing the elements of behavioral ethics
·
Understanding commonalities, risk indicators and lessons learned related to
recent scandals and the current financial crisis
·
Understanding the critical nature of fraud risk assessments
·
Reviewing Fraud Prevention and Detection – lessons and best practices from
the front lines
·
Reviewing three of the largest corporate scandals in history:
Enron, Worldcom, HealthSouth
·
Understanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and anti-corruption program
best practices
·
Reviewing the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
·
Understanding ethics and compliances program trends and best-practices
Location:
Embassy
Suites Nashville South-Cool Springs
820
Crescent Centre Drive
Franklin,
TN 37067
615-515-5151
Earn
up to 16 hours of CPE
– including 3 hours of behavioral ethics
Program
Level: Intermediate
Delivery
Method: Group – Live
Prerequisites:
None
Advanced
Preparation: None
Early
Registration Deadline:
October 30, 2009.
Space is limited - send in your registration form today!!
Early registration discounted rate
$350.00.
Registration:
We are accepting reservations now by
clicking here.
The cost is $390.00 for
two days (16 hours of CPE) – after October 30.
Early registration is
$350.00 prior to October 30.
A
10% discount is available for
ten persons from the same organization. Please make check payable to
CooperGroup, LLC.
Please complete the online registration using a credit card or mail your
check to:
2009 Governance Summit
CooperGroup
P.O. Box 805
Jackson, MS 39205
Refunds:
Requests for refunds/cancellations must be received in writing.
Cancellations received after November 15 will be subject to a 50%
cancellation fee. No refunds
will be given after December 1.
Contact Information
For more information or questions regarding the conference, refunds, and/or
program cancellation policies, please contact Cynthia Walker, President of
the Nashville IIA Chapter at 615-369-2343 or Elaine Saxton, Principal, The
CooperGroup, LLC at 601-488-4262.
Hotel Accommodations:
Please contact the Embassy Suites Nashville South – Cool Springs
(615-515-5151) directly to make reservations.
Sponsors:
The CooperGroup is not a CPA firm but a professional services
firm.
