Almost Free Seminar
Thursday, June 28, 2012
UTD Jindal School of Management
CPE Details

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Registration and continental breakfast – 7:30 a.m.
CPE program – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reception – 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

ERM Refocuses Internal Audit on the “Right Risks”
Alyssa G. Martin, CPA – Dallas Executive Partner, Risk Advisory Services, Weaver

Description: Start Enterprise Risk Management with the identification of top critical risks to monitor across the company, and refocus the annual internal audit plan on the right risks.

This presentation will address how the internal audit plan is developed to cover strategic risks through various audit activities. Your entity’s past audit plans may have been based on a process-level universe and shown to cover the financial and regulatory compliance activities first. It is important to realign the internal audit plan and link each audit activity to:

• Risks related to organizational strategic initiatives
• Risks at the entity and process levels that relate to those strategic risks
  
• Operational risks based on business unit feedback
  
• KPI’s and KRI’s to validate business unit performance
  
• Supporting assurance, compliance, fraud prevention, financial reporting and operations risks

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how internal audit successfully utilizes ERM to identify critical risks and then develops the annual audit plan to monitor those risks.
  
• Implement ERM and audit planning in phases: 1) event identification; key risk identifiers; 2) risk assessment and response; 3) internal audit plan development; and 4) perform audits to monitor critical risk mitigation.

Speaker Biography:
Alyssa Martin has more than 22 years of experience in public accounting, including 13 years of internal control process risk management. She serves as the Dallas executive partner and is part of Weaver’s risk advisory services practice. Her emphasis is in the areas of operational analysis, risk management, internal audit, fraud prevention, IT audit, business management consulting, strategic planning and technology consulting for the public sector, as well as private and public companies. Alyssa also has experience as the controller for a holding company, which retained interest in multiple publicly-traded companies. She is an active local member of the AICPA, the Texas Society of CPAs, the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and the American Woman’s Society of CPAs. Alyssa serves on many community boards and civic committees and has been honored with numerous awards. She earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also is a frequent speaker on advisory matters for accounting-professional and civic audiences and authors numerous articles for professional and business publications, including a monthly column in the Dallas Business Journal, titled “Management Matters.”

Mobile Technology Risks
Brian J. Thomas, CISA, CISSP – Advisory Services Partner, Weaver

Description: Through the “consumerization” of IT and the widespread acceptance of “BYOD,” the risks associated with mobile computing have changed significantly in the past few years. This presentation will focus on the current and emerging risks associated with mobile computing and what internal auditors can do to help protect their organizations. Mobile technology-related threat vectors that will be discussed in the session include: smart phone/mobile phone, laptop and tablet, public Wi-Fi, web-based threats and more. The discussion will also address topics that internal auditors can include in their risk assessments or audit plans, as well as currently accepted practices that auditors should be benchmarking against.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the nature of mobile computing and how it is changing your organization’s computing landscape
  
• Define key risk areas associated with mobile computing
  
• Understand how to incorporate those risks into your 2012 audit plans

Speaker Biography:
Brian Thomas leads the IT advisory services practice at Weaver. His emphasis is on providing Model Audit Rule, Sarbanes-Oxley, IT audit and other IT consulting services to Fortune 500 and middle-market financial services institutions. He has also provided Service Organization Controls (SOC – formerly known as SAS 70) reporting services to data centers, cloud service providers, third-party administrators and other service providers. Brian has authored numerous articles on issues related to cloud computing and has been quoted in numerous national and state-wide publications on the same subject. He earned his master’s and bachelor’s of science degrees in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He is certified as an information systems auditor and information systems security professional. His professional memberships and involvement include the AICPA Cloud Computing and SOC Reporting Task Forces, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and the Institute of Internal Auditors. He also serves as a board member of the Greater Houston AFCOM Chapter.

Cooking the Books and Peeling the Onions
Bill Brown, CPA, JD, CFF – Forensic Accounting Services Partner, Weaver

Description: Through a series of actual case studies, this presentation will focus on the nature of fraud and how it manifests / conceals itself. Each case study will illustrate the challenges involved with investigating fraud and highlight the necessary investigative and interviewing tools and tactics. The overall focus of this presentation is to help improve the ability to identify and deal with fraudulent behavior.

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the nature of fraud and how it manifests itself to improve the ability to identify fraudulent behavior
  
• Learn the basic investigative and interviewing tools and skills needed to effectively identify and deal with fraud
  
• Understand how to effectively remediate fraudulent behavior

Speaker Biography:
William D. “Bill” Brown is the partner-in-charge of forensic accounting services at Weaver. He has more than 35 years of forensic accounting experience, ten of which he spent with the FBI where he specialized in white collar crime investigations. In addition to being a CPA, Bill is also an attorney licensed in the state of Texas and a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional. He has testified numerous times in both federal and state courts regarding fraud-related cases. He has lectured nationally on the topics related to healthcare and insurance fraud, forensic accounting and fraud investigations. His lectures have been presented to the FBI at its National Training Academy, state insurance regulators, medical schools and professional organizations, including the AICPA and IIA. Bill has spent the last five years as the Court-appointed receiver for Amerifirst Funding.

Registration:

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Cancellation Policy/Refund Policy:

• Registration cutoff is 5:00 pm CST on Wednesday, June 20, 2012.
·Payment must be received by June 8, 2012 for the Dallas IIA member early registration rate of $40 and June 20, 2012 for regular rate $80.  Your registration is not guaranteed until paid.
• We strongly encourage you to pay via PayPal to confirm your registration.  If you are mailing a check, the envelope must be post marked 8 calendar days prior to the applicable deadline (June 8 for early registration or June 20 for regular registration) to ensure we receive your payment on time.  If the envelope is not post marked within the required timeframe and is received late, your registration is subject to cancellation and you may be notified that the event has been sold out.
• The deadline to cancel your registration is 5:00 pm CST on June 20, 2012 before the seminar (unless otherwise noted) to receive a refund.  If you do not cancel by the deadline, you may send a substitute in your place after notifying reservations@dallasiia.org up until 5pm CST on June 25th.  To cancel your registration, please send an email to CANCEL@dallasiia.org.
• No walk-ins will be allowed

Meeting Location:

UTD Naveen Jindal School of Management, Room 1.118 (registration in atrium just outside of the theatre room 1.118)

UTD Physical Address (for GPS devices): 800 West Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080

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Directions to UTD: http://www.utdallas.edu/directions/

From Central Expressway (US 75)
Take the Campbell Road exit and head west to University Parkway (between Floyd Road and Waterview Parkway). Turn north on University Parkway.

From LBJ Freeway (I-635)
Take the Coit Road exit and drive north to Campbell Road. Turn east on Campbell Road to University Parkway (between Waterview Parkway and Floyd Road). Turn north on University Parkway.

From DFW Airport
Drive toward the north airport exit. Once you are through the toll booths, take the I-635 east exit. Merge onto I-635 east. Take the Coit Road exit and travel north to Campbell Road. Turn east on Campbell Road to University Parkway (between Floyd Road and Waterview Parkway). Turn north on University Parkway.

From Love Field Airport via Central Expressway (US 75)
Take the airport exit at Cedar Springs Road. Turn east (left) on Mockingbird Lane toward Mockingbird/Lemmon South. Continue east on Mockingbird Lane. Turn north on Inwood Road. Turn east at Northwest Highway/Loop 12. Take Central Expressway (US 75) north. Take the Campbell Road exit and drive west to University Parkway (between Floyd Road and Waterview Parkway). Turn north on University Parkway.

From Love Field via Dallas North Tollway and George Bush Turnpike
Take the airport exit at Cedar Springs Road. Turn east (left) at Mockingbird Lane. Turn left to merge onto Dallas North Tollway. Take the exit onto President George Bush Turnpike East. Take the exit and turn south at Waterview Parkway. Head east on Campbell Road. Turn north at University Parkway.

From George Bush Turnpike (SH 190)
Turn south on Independence Parkway to Campbell Road. Turn east on Campbell Road to University Parkway (between Floyd Road and Waterview Parkway). Turn north on University Parkway.

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