Live coverage from the ACFE Global Fraud Conference, including anti-fraud articles, session highlights, video clips and photo gallery.
Included in the impressive opening ceremonies was a new addition to the ACFE Global Fraud Conference: a video welcoming more than 3,000 attendees from more than 60 countries.
Read MoreJames T. Reese, author and former FBI profiler, tells attendees to make wise choices when it comes to balancing work with life. “We want to take a step backward and say how do we measure balance? You measure it with satisfaction both in yourself and those who depend on you,” Reese said.
Read More“You need to get a ‘t’ time,” says Dr. James T. Reese during the Monday working lunch General Session. “You say, ‘I don’t play golf.’ That’s not the ‘t’ I’m talking about ladies and gentlemen. Find time to take the ‘t’ off the word ‘can’t.’ ”
Read More"Sixteen years of clean audits at FIFA shows that corruption is mostly invisible," said Paul O'Sullivan, CFE, senior consultant at Paul O’Sullivan & Associates. "These people don't need a receipt for their crimes." Like the FIFA scandal, corruption isn't always loud and it isn't always in your face. Corruption is calculated. "Corruption is a proverbial iceberg — it's not always visible," said O'Sullivan.
Read MoreHostile or rude interviewees, passive aggressive tactics, unsavory characters. These are things a fraud examiner or auditor could face when conducting an investigation. Ed Stolle, CFE, CPA, CGFM, CFCI, Manager and Advisor at Federal Housing Finance Agency, knows these characters well and shared his own experiences during his session, "What to Do When Your Fraud Examination Turns Hostile."
Read More“We don’t want to be the world’s global corruption police,” said Leslie R. Caldwell, assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during the Monday opening General Session. “We can’t and we don’t want to be. … We are vigorously investigating international corruption, vigorously prosecuting organized crime … and we’re increasing our commitment everyday to international cooperation in our struggle to safeguard markets, our networks, our privacy and our citizens.”
Read MoreInvestigators and auditors bring their own sets of tools to an investigation. In the investigator’s tool kit are interviewing skills, knowledge of the law, collecting and preserving evidence know-how, and honesty and ethics. Auditors bring different assets: integrity, independence, an attention to detail, internal controls experience and expertise in collecting hard copy evidence.
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