Leveraging SOX Anti-Fraud Programs to Reduce Company-Wide Risks

This is an interactive, web-based course for corporate personnel. The purpose is to educate personnel about how fraud threats to themselves and to their organization's assets and to provide practical best practices for detecting, preventing and reporting all incidents of fraud or suspicious conduct. The training supports SOX Compliance (particularly Section 30 as it pertains to anonymous hotlines), and conforms to key criteria of the revised US Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

Areas Covered in the seminar:

Upon completing the Fraud Aware webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe their role in preventing, detecting, and reporting all major types of fraud from embezzlement, identity theft/fraud, collusion, internet/cyber-accounts payable fraud, T&E abuse and case theft to name a few.
• Recognize the value to themselves of taking steps to safeguard, the company's financial assets, sensitive information and reputation.
• Defend against other major forms of financial services industry fraud, especially internal frauds.
• Know how to promptly and effectively REPORT incidents of fraud or suspicious conduct (while understanding the rules protecting them against retribution.)

Who will benefit:

• Internal auditors
• Accountants
• Compliance officers
• CFO's
• COO's
• CEO's
• General counsel
• Business unit managers
• Controllers
• HR managements

Instructor Profile:

Peter Goldmann, is president of White-Collar Crime 101 LLC, the publisher of White-Collar Crime Fighter, a monthly newsletter for internal auditors,controllers, corporate counsel, financial operations managers and fraud investigators.Peter has published White-Collar Crime Fighter since 1998 and has interviewed hundreds of fraud investigators, forensic accountants, white-collar crime attorneys, ex-convicts and auditors.In addition, White-Collar Crime 101 has developed the leading employee fraud awareness training program, FraudAware. This is a user-friendly workshop and Elearning training tool designed to train employees at all levels in how to detect,prevent and report incidents of fraud or suspicious conduct.The course, which is customized for individual corporate clients, reinforces companies’ whistleblowing programs, by enabling employees to detect fraudulent activity that can then be reported to supervisors or managers or by using the organization’s confidential hotline.

Peter has 25 years of experience as a business journalist and trainer, having launched, edited and published numerous business trade periodicals covering small business, international trade, management strategy, banking and personal finance.He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as well as an active member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the High-Tech Crime Investigation Association and InfraGard.

He is a frequent contributor to leading industry publications on anti-fraud topics and has appeared on The Wall Street Journal This Morning, The New York Times and Internal Auditor magazine.

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