Auditing And Examining Travel And Entertainment Expenses: Expense Reimbursement Fraud

• OVERVIEW

This training program will address why internal controls over travel and entertainment (T&E) expenditures are a critical component of the control environment. Although, the topic of travel and entertainment abuse is not one that management likes to address, it is a very important indicator of the adequacy of a company’s control environment.

• LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn the importance of traveling and entertainment basics
• How to develop strategies to provide an effective controlled environment?    
• Learn the Internal Controls to avoid risks
• Prevent fraud at an early stage
• Learn the benefits of Internal Controls
• Bridge the gap between Internal Controls and Sound Control Environment

• WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

If you are reviewing entertainment expenses and find discrepancies, how often do you hear management say, “What’s the big deal? How bad could it be?” This is a prime indicator that there is a gap in understanding of the importance of simple internal controls and a sound control environment.

With today's advanced technology and digital media, one would think that tracking simple T&E expenditures would be efficient. Yet with technological advancements comes new and innovative ways for individuals to side-step control procedures and slip the inadvertent expense through the system. This webinar will discuss the impact of T&E abuse on various risk areas. Among other discussions, the course will also highlight areas of T&E abuse that often go unnoticed and result in expenditure fraud.

• AREAS COVERED

• Why internal controls over T&E expenditures are a critical component of the control environment?
• The impact abuse of T&E can have on various risk areas?
• Areas of T&E abuse that often go unnoticed and can result in expensive fraud
• Identifying T&E red flags for fraud with data analytics
• The role of technology in the advancement of control gaps
• How to talk to management about identified findings?

• WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• CEOs/CFOs
• Board members
• Internal auditors
• Compliance professionals
• Operational professionals
• Audit and risk professionals
• Finance professionals
• Legal department
• HR personnel/managers/staff

• SPEAKER

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.

Others Details

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