Fraud & Forensic Accounting Conference - A Virtual Event
Overview
As those who commit fraud become increasingly sophisticated, it's important to understand the complex nature of the threats you face in today's business environment. Discover the tools, resources and information you need to protect your clients and organizations at the Fraud & Forensic Accounting Conference. Engage with expert speakers for best practices, insights and strategies to strengthen your internal controls and anti-fraud programs.
Designed For
CFOs, controllers, sole practitioners, forensic accounting, and financial professionals in business and industry, as well as fraud and litigation practitioners and business valuation analysis.
Notice
Tuesday, October 21
General Session
- Financial Tracing
David ZweighaftDavid Zweighaft
David S. Zweighaft, CPA, CFF, CFE, is a Partner with RSZ Forensic Associates, a New York City-based forensic accounting and litigation consulting firm. David is a fraud subject matter expert and since 1993 has served the legal and financial services communities in both consulting and expert witness services. He has significant experience in accounting, auditing, finance, and project management in diverse industries. David is well-versed in accounting policies and procedures, financial reporting with an emphasis on investigating financial statement misrepresentations, and assessing the effectiveness of internal controls and their impact on operational efficiencies.
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David is responsible for providing RSZ Forensic’s law firm clients with litigation consulting services, including conducting investigations, performing analyses, calculating economic damages, providing expert witness testimony, and performing due diligence reviews. An experienced expert witness, he has testified in depositions before arbitration panels and judicial hearing officers, as well as in state and federal courts. David’s background includes four years with a risk management advisory firm as the Associate Director of their Fraud Risk Management practice and over thirteen years with global public accounting firms focusing on litigation and forensic services. He also assisted the United States Department of Justice (Southern District of New York) for two and a half years as a Senior Asset Forfeiture Financial Specialist.
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He has authored numerous articles about fraud and accounting issues, and has given presentations to many professional groups. David has been an Adjunct Instructor at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he taught auditing, forensic accounting, and litigation consulting. He has also been a Faculty Instructor at international conferences for anti-fraud professionals.
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General Session
- Issues in Forensic Accounting
David SawyerDavid Sawyer
As a forensic accountant and financial crimes investigator for civil litigation and criminal prosecution, David Sawyer has served as consulting or testifying expert for hundreds of investigations involving fraud, corruption, financial damages and a variety of other legal disputes. He has provided expert witness testimony in more than two dozen of those matters. David served a key role in developing software designed as an early warning system to detect red flags of fraud, waste, abuse, and white-collar crime. He has also worked as an advisor on the global initiative to combat, prevent and detect multi-national economic and military espionage, as well as the proliferation of WMD, terrorist financing and money laundering.
Previously, David was a partner with a Top 50 Regional CPA / Advisory Firm and consultant with forensic units of two Big Four accounting firms. A former internal auditor for Fortune 500 corporations, Mr. Sawyer still regularly consults with organizations on improvements of internal controls, as well as fraud prevention and detection. His clients have included law enforcement and prosecutors, senior executives and managers, boards of directors, audit committees, general counsel, attorneys and litigators for governments, governmental agencies, publicly traded global corporations and privately-owned businesses.
Mr. Sawyer is a Board Member Emeritus of the Georgia Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners, where he was elected president four times. Currently, he serves on the State of Georgia Board of Private Detectives and Security Agencies, appointed by Governor Brian Kemp to serve a four-year term. He is also a founding member of the Fraud and Forensic Services Advisory Council for the Georgia Society of CPA’s and has been Co-Chairman for the Atlanta Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). David is a member of Infragard and served as co-chairman of Special Projects for the Southeast United States Chapter of BENS (Business Executives for National Security).
David is a graduate of Auburn University. He has addressed thousands of professionals and students on the topic of fraud examination, financial investigations, and forensic accounting. In 2004, he co-founded the fraud investigation and forensic accounting course for the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where he still serves as a guest presenter and instructor. David is a published author and has provided expert commentary for the Atlanta news media affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and NPR.
Credits: 1.5 - Accounting - Technical
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General Session
- Break
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General Session
- Fraud in Investments
Chad OlivierChad Olivier
CEO, CFP | Olivier Group
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General Session
- Lunch
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General Session
- ChatGPT & LLMs in Forensic Accounting
Joe WilckJoe Wilck
Associate Professor of Practice in Analytics & Operations Management | Bucknell University
Daniel Street
Assistant Professor of Accounting & Financial Management | Buckness University
Credits: 1.5 - Computer Software & Applications - Non-technical
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Optional Session
- Forensic Accounting in Criminal Investigations
Peter HardyPeter Hardy
Peter Hardy, a former federal prosecutor, is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight’s Philadelphia office. Mr. Hardy’s practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and internal investigations, Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) regulatory compliance, criminal tax and civil tax controversy defense, and civil litigation involving allegations of fraud.
According to reviews in Chambers USA, Mr. Hardy is “brilliant and efficient” and “an insightful and strategic adviser.” He is also “incredibly responsive” and “provides practical, actionable advice.”
Mr. Hardy advises corporations and individuals across a range of industries against allegations of financial fraud, including money laundering, tax fraud, mortgage fraud and lending law violations, securities fraud and public corruption. He conducts internal investigations, defends against grand jury investigations and has litigated complex criminal matters at the trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Hardy also counsels financial institutions and businesses on their AML obligations under the BSA and other compliance requirements, including issues involving sanctions law, countering the financing of terrorism, money transmission, digital assets and cryptocurrency, cannabis and anti-corruption.
In addition, Mr. Hardy advises on potential disclosures to the IRS and counsels clients through every stage of a tax controversy, from audit through administrative appeal to litigation for a civil case, and from the grand jury investigation to any prosecution for a criminal case. He has both represented whistleblowers before the IRS and defended corporations against the allegations of whistleblowers.
Mr. Hardy also handles complex civil litigation relating to allegations of fraud, including Ponzi schemes, fraudulent transfers and false claims.
Mr. Hardy is the author of Criminal Tax, Money Laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act Litigation, a well-reviewed and comprehensive legal treatise concerning the investigation, prosecution and defense of criminal tax, money laundering and BSA cases, published by Bloomberg BNA.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Hardy was an attorney at a national law firm, where he founded the AML team and the tax controversy team.
Before entering private practice, Mr. Hardy spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, where he focused on fraud and financial crime cases. He also served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division in Washington, D.C., where he tried criminal cases in several federal districts.
Mr. Hardy served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable George E. Woods of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, as well as for the Honorable Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Siana Danch
Siana Danch is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight’s Philadelphia office. Ms. Danch focuses her practice on federal tax controversy, regulatory enforcement, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, internal investigations and white collar defense.
Ms. Danch has extensive experience in defending clients before the IRS in matters involving criminal and civil tax fraud, assessment and collection actions. She has handled a variety of federal trial and appellate court pleadings, including refund suits, deficiency petitions and an appellate brief on Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) penalty issues. Ms. Danch has also assisted clients in responding to federal and state civil and criminal investigations involving tax and money laundering compliance, as well as John Doe summons.
Ms. Danch also advises U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions and other businesses, including money transmitters, gaming institutions and real estate industry participants, on AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) compliance and emerging trends, including cryptocurrency regulation, and assists clients in examinations and investigations arising under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and federal money laundering statutes. Ms. Danch’s work includes drafting and revising compliance policies and procedures, developing risk assessments, conducting AML due diligence during merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, and conducting enhanced due diligence on certain customers and transactions and determining whether to close customer accounts. She also advises on compliance relating to bank and financial technology (FinTech) partnerships as well as helps financial institutions respond to investigations and subpoenas and contest the application of “special measures” for a foreign financial institution designated as a “primary money laundering concern.”
In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Danch maintains an active pro bono practice and volunteers as a tax return preparer for low-income residents of Philadelphia.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Danch was an attorney at national law firms in Philadelphia. Previously, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard T. Morrison of the U.S. Tax Court, as well as completed internships in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel.
While in law school, Ms. Danch traveled to rural Alaskan villages as a volunteer tax return preparer.
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General Session
- Break
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General Session
- Coming Soon
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Non-Member Price $370.00
Member Price $300.00