Registration Fee – $49

November 19, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm PST (2.0 CPE)
Level: Advanced
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
Mark Dauberman, CPA, EMBA

Description:

According to the 2020 Report to the Nations, published by the ACFE, three of the five asset misappropriation schemes presenting the greatest risk involve the misappropriation of cash. They are:

• Check and payment tampering
• Cash larceny
• Payroll

A deficiency in internal control that prevents an entity from protecting its cash is putting that entity’s existence into jeopardy. It is management’s responsibility to develop, implement, and maintain controls to protect the entity’s assets from misappropriation as well as to otherwise achieve management objectives. In addition, regardless of the actual relationship or the service performed by a CPA for a client, in many cases a client will hold the CPA responsible for the detection of fraud and many even hold the CPA liable for fraud subsequently detected by others.

This course describes the most common types of fraud schemes used to misappropriate cash, including how they are committed, the conditions under which they will be successful, and the impact on various financial statement components. We will identify the signs that may be indicators of fraud, and the controls that may be effective for prevention.

Using a case study approach, the program will review three fraud cases one for each of the above-mentioned types. The scheme, the perpetrators, and other aspects will be discussed. Looking at the conditions under which each was successful, we will discuss the development of controls that may have been able to prevent them and the signs that can be used to detect fraud that has occurred.

Designed for:
Accountants and managers in industry with any responsibility for internal controls and CPAs providing accounting or other services to business clients.

Objectives:
Attendees will:

• Learn about the different fraud schemes involving cash and the risk of each occurring
• Identify the process by which cash fraud is committed and the conditions that must exist for it to be successful
• Perform an objective and effective risk assessment to identify control deficiencies
• Identify controls effective for preventing cash fraud
• Understand techniques for detecting cash fraud that did occur

Additional Information

  • Delivery Method: Group Internet Live
  • Recommended CPE Hours 2.0
  • Field of Study: Fraud
  • Program Level: Advanced
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Advanced Preparation: None

Mark Dauberman, Bio

Mark provides CPE and technical staff training for CPA firms, private industry, state CPA societies, and government organizations.  His topics include accounting, SSARS, ethics, fraud, internal and external auditing, internal control development (COSO), entrepreneurship, and developing a business plan.  Mark is in the process of initiating a new entity, The Internal Control Institute, which will be offering CPE and staff training related to internal controls, and in conjunction with professors from Claremont Graduate University, will be providing internal control consulting.

Mark is also an expert witness in the defense of CPAs in cases involving primarily ethics, fraud, and compliance with standards in the performance of professional services.

Mark also provides consulting services to CPA firms with an A & A practice that do not have an expert on GAAP or requirements of Professional Standards within the firm.  He addresses such matters as conformity with GAAP, adequacy of disclosures, compliance with professional standards, risk assessment, development and performance of audit and review processes, engagement documentation, compilation and preparation engagements, ethics and independence requirements, assessing and enhancing internal controls for the firm and clients, preparation for peer review, and staff training and CPE.  He also provides consulting services related to client management and marketing.

Mark’s public accounting experience includes working with Kenneth Leventhal & Company and more recently, he was a partner at NSBN, a Beverly Hills CPA and business consulting firm. Mark’s industry experience includes serving as assistant controller of a large trucking and warehousing firm along with controller and Vice President of Finance and Administration for major real estate development companies.  Mark also spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur, operating a company that prepared individuals for the CPA exam nationwide.

Mark has been involved in accounting education at CSU Northridge, CSU San Bernardino, Loyola Marymount University and UCLA.  He obtained his bachelor’s degree in accounting from CSU Northridge. He obtained his Executive MBA at the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he previously had been a student of Dr. Drucker’s.  He also obtained an Internal Control Certificate from COSO.  Until recently, he authored “Knowledge Based Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements” for CCH and updated their checklists for SSARS engagements.  He also served as Senior Editor for Roger CPA Review.

Mark Currently provides CPE and technical staff training for CPA firms, private industry employers of accountants, and government organizations on topics that include accounting, compilation and review, fraud, internal and external auditing, developing internal controls, strategic planning, and practice management.  He is also the Senior Editor for Roger CPA Review Course and authors CCH’s “Knowledge-Based Compilations and Reviews”.

Mark’s public accounting experience includes working with various local firms throughout high school and college, and employment with Kenneth Leventhal & Company. More recently, he was a partner at NSBN, a Beverly Hills CPA and business consulting firm, where he served as director of the audit practice and was responsible for recruiting, training, business development, quality control, and strategic planning for the firm. Mark’s industry experience includes serving as assistant controller of a large trucking and warehousing firm. He has been both a controller and the Vice President of Finance and Administration for major real estate development companies.  Mark also spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur, operating a business that prepared individuals for the CPA exam.

Mark taught his first university accounting class in 1969 and has been involved in accounting education since, most recently a visiting lecturer at California State University at San Bernardino.

Mark obtained his bachelor’s degree in accounting from California State University at Northridge. He obtained his Executive MBA at the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he previously had been a student of Dr. Drucker’s.