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As a keynote speaker at the 2021 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada, Garth Sheriff, CPA ,CA, CIA, and founder of Sheriff Consulting, turned the audience’s attention to the topic of psychological safety. Acknowledging that many audience members may not have heard that term before, Sheriff chose to define it through a number of examples that painted clear images of how psychological safety impacts a workplace.
Read MoreRoger Darvall-Stevens took the virtual stage at this year’s ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific in late September to discuss Australia’s recent updates to their fraud and corruption control standards. As the national head of fraud & forensic services for RSM Australia, Darvall-Stevens provided an elucidating introduction to Australian Standard 8001:2021, which provides a foundation for fraud and corruption control, prevention, detection and response.
Read MoreWhen ACFE Regent Kenneth Dieffenbach, CFE, took to the virtual stage at the 32nd Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference, he reminded his audience of their pivotal role. “Fraud examination really does matter, no matter how tedious or lengthy investigations can be,” he said. He stressed the importance especially for fraud examiners working in the public sector. “No matter where you live, travel, or work, the government has to have the proper guardrails to fight and deter corruption. Some governments have a higher perception of corruption than others, but they’re all at risk for public and private corruption.”
Read MoreHossam El Shaffei, founder and managing director of Oversight Consulting and Training, started off his ACFE Fraud Conference Middle East session with a question that’s been on many fraud examiners’ minds throughout the past year: How do we efficiently and effectively conduct fraud investigations remotely?
While the pandemic has introduced a lot of new norms and skills to the industry, El Shaffei noted that fraud examiners have also had to navigate new challenges associated with malpractice.
Read MoreDespite the oft-invoked title of “ethics and risk management” for anti-fraud initiatives and professional roles, it’s occasionally difficult to put modes of compliance into practice that explicitly draw links between ethics and risk as symbiotic symptoms of each other. While it may be easy to identify potential risks within an organization, it’s harder to trace those risk opportunities back to an ethical aspect of the company’s culture that may be the foundational cause for a risk.
As part of the virtual 2021 ACFE Fraud Conference Europe, Dr. Attracta Lagan, co-principle of Managing Values, spoke with Dr. Klaus Moosmayer, the executive committee manager and chief ethics, risk, and compliance officer for Novartis, to discuss techniques for promoting an office culture that enhances ethical accountability as a means of reducing risk.
Read MoreIn an inspiring and humor-filled session at the first-ever ACFE Women’s Summit, the ACFE’s Director of Research, Andi McNeal, CFE, CPA, and Communications Manager, Mandy Moody, CFE, invited attendees to hold a mirror up to ourselves and examine some habits that we may consider to be professional defects, in order for us to reframe these habits as sources of power.
Read MoreIn a recent session for the virtual 2020 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada, mindfulness instructor Trish Tutton provided an overview of how mindfulness practices can put our brains in a state where we can be more creative and innovative, and come up with solutions to problems in our own lives, in our work and for our clients.
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