Fitting the Concepts of Enterprise Risk Management to Your Organization

Why Should You Attend:

In today’s world of evolving technologies and businesses, companies are taking on increasing levels of risk. This initiative has increased the need to employ appropriate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) tactics. In a world of doing more at a faster pace, it is important for companies to manage their activities in a manner that can allow them to align risk strategies with overall risk management and internal control activities. Inability to do this may put the company at risk for not being able to meet strategic objectives. Managing risk includes all levels of financial, operational and compliance risk.

ERM is an initiative important to all aspects of an organization. Managing risk includes all levels of financial, operational and compliance risk. This course delves further into the phased approach to help establish ERM processes and appropriately identify, assess, measure, mitigate and report risks.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Discover the purpose and definitions of enterprise risk management (ERM)
• Identify how to right size ERM to meet company objectives
• Discover how to establish a framework for ERM
• Identify roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for ERM

Who Will Benefit:

• Board of Directors
• Internal Auditors
• External Auditors
• Accounting, Operational and Compliance Professionals
• Management

Instructor Profile:

Lynn Fountain has over 35 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. She has 20 years of experience working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance.

Ms. Fountain has held two chief audit executive positions for international companies. Since 2008, she has served in positions where she was responsible for internal audit, enterprise risk management and Sarbanes-Oxley. Ms. Fountain has a private consulting and training business, and she has developed and delivered leading edge training sessions on COSO, internal audit, ERM, accounting, leadership, governance, compliance and ethics. She delivers training for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Internal Auditors, and multiple seminar and training groups.

Ms. Fountain is the author of two technical books that released in 2015: Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations; Leading the Internal Audit Function. In addition, Ms. Fountain is a frequent blogger on the LinkedIn platform and has also had numerous articles published in professional and technical publications. She is currently authoring a third technical book on corporate ethics and the internal auditor’s challenge.

She has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate (non-active).

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