May 16, 2024 – May 17, 2024
K2’s Financial Mastery & Fraud Control: Multi-State Conference
Brian Tankersley
Accounting, Auditing
Earn Up to 16 CPE Credits
Overview
This unique event unites two critical aspects of modern finance – cutting-edge budgeting and forecasting tools and pivotal case studies in technology-powered fraud and control. Gain insights, strategies, and skills to elevate your financial understanding and safeguard your organization’s assets.
Session Details
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Day #1
K2’s Budgeting and Forecasting Tools and Techniques
Session Description
Do your budgeting and forecasting processes work as well as they should? Probably not, as many organizations report that budgeting and forecasting activities consume tremendous amounts of time and yield only marginal benefits. In this course, you will learn to achieve a greater return on your budgeting and forecasting activities by using various tools and techniques available in today’s market.
In addition to learning how to utilize Excel more effectively for budgeting and forecasting activities, you will also learn about other tools, such as Budget Maestro, PROPHIX, and Host Analytics, and how reducing your dependency on Excel can lead to better results. Additionally, you will learn how to account for risk and uncertainty in your budgeting and forecasting models and why doing so is a best practice for more meaningful budgets and forecasts. Join us in this course to learn how to reduce your time on budgeting and forecasting tasks while simultaneously increasing their value.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Day #2
K2’s Case Studies In Fraud And Technology Controls
Session Description
Fraud continues to plague businesses at epidemic levels, and technology control failures are a significant reason fraud occurs. Using a case study approach, in this session, you will learn about the pervasiveness of fraud, the control failures contributing to fraud, and what you can do to mitigate fraud risk.
A specific focus of this course is applying information technology general controls and information technology application controls. In this course, you will examine numerous reported fraud cases and identify the general and application control failures that contributed to each fraud. By learning through these real-world case studies, you will be positioned better to reduce fraud risk.