Heard in the Halls: Diverse Sessions Provide a Wealth of Knowledge

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Heard in the Halls: Diverse Sessions Provide a Wealth of Knowledge

"I'm looking forward to this session on body language because all of the other sessions I'm going to are very textbook, but this session I don't think you can learn from a textbook. I think you really need to hear from someone who has that experience and exposure to it. So I'm really excited to be able to learn firsthand from someone who can read body language, who can tell you what those red flags are and what certain signals mean." — Patti Buck-Torrey, CFE, Manager of Internal Controls, FedEx Ground

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Why We Choose to Travel Inside the Mind of a Fraudster

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Why We Choose to Travel Inside the Mind of a Fraudster

Andrew Fastow, the former CFO of Enron, often refers to himself now as the Chief Loophole Officer. He bent and molded accounting rules to fit Enron’s purposes. He made the numbers into what helped him and the company’s executives make the most profit and helped shareholders sleep well at night. Technically legal? Yes. Ethical? No.

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Heard in the Halls: Taking Conference Knowledge Into the Field

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Heard in the Halls: Taking Conference Knowledge Into the Field

"What I'm really looking forward to this year is the work we're going to be learning about in international markets. We're an American company and we're expanding into Latin America, and one of the classes speaks directly to fraud in Latin America. So we're really excited to start learning about fraud in other countries and how that impacts us as we expand globally. I feel like that has been a big driver in why I wanted to attend this year." — Samantha Weeks, CFE, Business Risk Analyst, Southwest Airlines

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Conference Sells Out, but You Can Still Attend Virtually

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The 27th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference has officially sold out. Space may become available as we receive cancellations. Please call (800) 245-3321 / +1 (512) 478-9000 to find out if we can accommodate your registration. 

If you missed registering or were unable to make the trip to Las Vegas, you can still sharpen your fraud-fighting skills via the ACFE Virtual Conference. We will be live streaming during the Main Conference; you will have a choice of two of our most popular sessions in each time slot, and the opportunity to earn up to 12 CPE. Your Virtual Conference registration also gives you access to on-demand recordings of all other Main Conference breakout sessions (please note that CPE credit is not available for on-demand recordings).
 
To register for the Virtual Conference, go to FraudConference.com/Virtual.

Traveling Fraud Museum Looks at Fraud on the Big Screen

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Traveling Fraud Museum Looks at Fraud on the Big Screen

Made up of artifacts, memorabilia, documents, and other pieces of fraud history collected by ACFE founder and Chairman Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, this year’s Fraud Museum displays financial frauds depicted on Hollywood’s big screen. The pieces reflect on productions like The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short and the recent ABC miniseries, Madoff. 

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