The Houston ACFE invites you to join us for our Monthly virtual training!  It's the last Tuesday of each month, so mark your recurring calendars!

Speaker: Marie Rice. PhD, CFE, CIA

Title:  Investigation Tools - Examining Bias: Reducing mental filters to find fraud

Description:   This session will explore mental filters (e.g., heuristics, biases, and working memory deficiencies) that reduce the ability to detect fraud effectively. As anti-fraud professionals we are taught to consider the unconscious biases of interviewees, but often forget to consider our own biases. Understanding our own cognitive biases and mental filters is important to the quality of our work. Participants in this session test tips and tricks to overcome mental filters on fraud case studies.

Bio:  Marie holds a PhD in accounting, with an emphasis in fraud and forensic accounting, and is an Assistant Professor at Siena College where she serves as Director of the Center for Anti-fraud Resources and Examination Services (CARES). Prior to entering academia, Marie was an anti-fraud, compliance, and audit professional with 20 years of experience. As a practitioner, she managed forensic accounting engagements up to and including expert testimony and advised audit committees and executive leadership teams of small to mid-sized U.S. listed companies on risk and compliance matters. Marie was a founding member and Past President of the Spokane Chapter of the ACFE and a founding member of the Justice for Fraud Victims Project at Gonzaga University, for which she was awarded the ACFE’s 2010 Outstanding Achievement in Outreach/Community Service Award and the Spokane Police Chief’s Citizen Award. She currently serves on the board of the Albany Chapter of the ACFE.

*Note: This title may change before the presentation

Learning Objectives:

• Define bias in investigations
• Identify opportunities to better improve investigations through examining attitudes
• Learn tools and tips to overcome challenges while investigating

Prerequisites: Not Applicable

Agenda:

11:50 am ZOOM OPENS

11:55 am - ACFE BOARD REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION

12:00 - 1:00 PRESENTATION BEGINS

Recommended CPE hours: 1.0 credits

Event Policies

In order to receive CPE credit for this presentation, the attendee must attend for 50 minutes and answer three poll questions randomly presented during the event.

Program Cancellation Policy

If you have registered and/or paid for an event and you need to cancel, you MUST cancel online through your account no later than 5 days prior to the event, unless otherwise indicated in specific event policies, to request a refund and/or cancel your registration. The Chapter must confirm event registrations with the venue prior to the event and any changes after this time period can become a financial cost to the Chapter. The Chapter reserves the right to make the final determination on what percentage charge/refund will be returned for cancellations made after the cutoff. The default condition is that cancellations made after cutoff will be charged at 100% and/or no refunds will be allowed. In the event the Chapter determines that partial charges or refunds will be allowed, they will be made on a case by case basis.

In the event of having to cancel one of the events,  the Chapter would immediately send an email blast to all registrants with the emails they used for registration.  The Chapter media relations officer would post on all social media platforms notifying members of the cancellation, and the Chapter webmaster would also post cancellation on the Chapter website.

In the event an attendee does not show up to the event, the registration cost will be forfeited. If payment at the door was the selected method, then the attendee will be billed for the full cost of the event. The Chapter reserves the right to bar future registrations for any attendees who routinely register and fail to pay and/or attend the event.  If you have any questions you may email events@houstonacfe.org."

For more information regarding refund, complaint and/or program cancellation policies, please visit the Terms & Conditions section of the website, or email us at events@houstonacfe.org.  

Additional Information:

Delivery Method:  Group Internet Based

NASBA Sponsor No.  125230

The Houston Area Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.  State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.  Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org

For concerns regarding course offerings, certifications or complaints, please contact Sasha Gartman, Training Director, Houston ACFE at events@houstonacfe.org.