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FREE Audio Conference 03/07/12: Data Mining to Prioritize Investigations of Contract Fraud
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Data Mining to Prioritize Investigations of Contract Fraud
The Financial Management Advisory Council, the State Auditor's Office, and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference on March 7, 2012, from 11:00am-12:50pm. The location of the audio conference will be determined at a later date.
This will be provided FREE to all participants.
CPE: 2 Hours
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) established a Data Mining Group within its Office of Investigations to identify and prioritize probable fraudulent activity in four distinct areas of the Postal Service: contracts, health care, mail theft and finance. The USPS managed more than $33 billion in contracts in FY2009 and the OIG has previously relied primarily on hotline tips for investigative leads.
Partnering with Elder Research Inc., the USPS OIG has developed a contract fraud data mining tool by combining advanced data mining techniques, data visualization and subject matter expertise to score all USPS contracts for potential fraud, waste and abuse. Though developed primarily for investigations, the USPS OIG believes that this promising anti-fraud tool will also aid auditing, postal business operations and other governmental agencies looking to reduce and minimize fraud, waste and abuse.
To share their knowledge and expertise about data mining are Bryan Jones, director, Data Mining Group, Office of Investigations, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Postal Service; and Antonia de Medinaceli, director, Business Analytics and Fraud Detection, Elder Research, Inc.
Please join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speaker’s commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences.
Location:
Town Center 3 RM 224
243 Israel Road SE
Tumwater, WA 98501
A map to Town Center 3 is available online at:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/DOHDirections/town_center.htm
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| Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
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FREE Audio Conference 04/18/12: Find Strength in Numbers
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2/23/2012 2:23:06 AM, Available Seats:
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Find Strength in Numbers: Sampling Techniques to Improve Financial Audit, Control and Program Performance
The Financial Management Advisory Council, the State Auditor's Office, and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the John A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Room 2 on April 18, 2012, from 11:00am-12:50pm.
Space is limited to 60.
This will be provided FREE to all participants.
CPE: 2 Hours
AGA is pleased to announce its latest new audio conference on using statistical sampling techniques.
Statistical sampling plays an increasingly important role in financial audit, internal control and program evaluation. An appropriately selected statistical sample provides an unbiased and statistically precise assessment of a population in question. Depending on how data are organized, using different sampling strategies could save money on evaluations and travel. This audio conference addresses recent advances in sampling techniques applicable to financial audit, internal control and program evaluation. It concludes with case studies recently applied in several government agencies.
To share their knowledge and expertise in using statistical sampling in auditing government operations are Albert Lee, Ph.D., senior economist, Summit Consulting LLC; and Denise S. Wu, CGFM, CPA, partner, Clifton Gunderson LLP.
Please join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speaker’s commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences.
Location:
John A Cherberg Building
Senate Hearings Room 2
Capital Campus
215 Sid Snyder Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98504
http://www.ga.wa.gov/images/campus-map.pdf
http://www.ga.wa.gov/park/visitor.htm
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| Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
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FREE Audio Conference 05/09/12: Carlo Ponzi or Bernard Madoff - Who Was the Bigger Villain?
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Carlo Ponzi or Bernard Madoff - Who Was the Bigger Villain?
The Financial Management Advisory Council, the State Auditor's Office, and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the John A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Room 2 on May 9, 2012, from 11:00am-12:50pm.
Space is limited to 60.
This will be provided FREE to all participants.
CPE: 2 Hours
AGA is pleased to announce its latest audio conference for the 2011-2012 program year— understanding the lessons learned from pyramid schemes.
Carlo Ponzi “invented” the Ponzi scheme. Bernie Madoff seems to have “perfected” it. This session explains the two schemes, describes key similarities and differences, and describes why the most sophisticated investors in the 21st century were duped by this most basic of all fraud schemes. It is also a sad tale of how an accountability professional aided and abetted this most recent “mother of all pyramid schemes.” Important lessons were learned by these two fraudsters’ stories—lessons every accountability professional should know.
To share his practical experience in auditing and investigating fraud, waste and abuse is David L. Cotton, CGFM, CFE, CPA, Chairman, Cotton & Company LLP. The firm was founded in 1981 and has a practice concentration in assisting federal and state government agencies, inspectors general and government grantees and contractors with a variety of government program-related assurance and advisory services. Cotton & Company has performed grant and contract, indirect cost rate, financial statement, financial related, and performance audits for more than two dozen federal inspectors general (including the Government Accountability Office, Department of State, the Department of Justice, Department of Education, Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Homeland Security).
Please join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speaker’s commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences.
Location:
John A Cherberg Building
Senate Hearings Room 2
Capital Campus
215 Sid Snyder Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98504
http://www.ga.wa.gov/images/campus-map.pdf
http://www.ga.wa.gov/park/visitor.htm
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| Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
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FREE Audio Conference 05/23/12: Ethical Dilemmas
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Ethical Dilemmas - Recognizing, Analyzing and Resolving Situations Where There are Two Right Choices
The Financial Management Advisory Council, the State Auditor's Office, and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the John A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Room 2 on May 23, 2012, from 11:00am-12:50pm.
Space is limited to 60.
This will be provided FREE to all participants.
CPE: 2 Hours
AGA is pleased to announce its latest new audio conference on ethics.
This audio conference will explore an innovative framework for recognizing ethical dilemmas, analyzing those dilemmas to focus on the heart of the problem in each situation, and resolving them using three ethical decision-making principles.
The presentation is based on the work of Rushworth Kidder, Ph.D., the founder and president of the non-profit Institute for Global Ethics. The key element of this approach is that the traditional view of ethical dilemmas (that is, a situation where one choice is right and the other is wrong) is not valid by definition and not helpful in the real world. The prefix “di” means two, and the rest of the word, “lemma,” comes from the Greek concepts of assumptions or theories. Thus, the speaker will be attempting to make a distinction between situations where auditors/financial and program managers face a conflict of core, moral values (dilemmas) and situations where one of the two choices is clearly wrong (which the presenter will now refer to as a temptation).
To share their knowledge and expertise in ethical situations is Alan Z. Goodman, president, Goodman Professional Development, Inc.
Please join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speaker’s commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences.
Location:
John A Cherberg Building
Senate Hearings Room 2
Capital Campus
215 Sid Snyder Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98504
http://www.ga.wa.gov/images/campus-map.pdf
http://www.ga.wa.gov/park/visitor.htm
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| Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
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FREE Audio Conference 06/06/12: Performance Management
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2/23/2012 2:23:06 AM, Available Seats:
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Performance Management
The Financial Management Advisory Council, the State Auditor's Office, and AGA-Olympia are sponsoring an audio conference in the John A. Cherberg Building, Senate Hearing Room 2 on June 6, 2012, from 11:00am-12:50pm.
Space is limited to 60.
This will be provided FREE to all participants.
CPE: 2 Hours
Please join us for two hours of lively discussion about this important and timely topic. In addition to the speaker’s commentary, there will be approximately 20 minutes for Q & A so that the participants can ask the speaker questions and share their own experiences.
Location:
John A Cherberg Building
Senate Hearings Room 2
Capital Campus
215 Sid Snyder Avenue SW
Olympia, WA 98504
http://www.ga.wa.gov/images/campus-map.pdf
http://www.ga.wa.gov/park/visitor.htm
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