December 2017 Training Event

Our December 2017 Training Event, Charting the Course for 2018, included three speakers addressing internal audit processes and fraud trends.  Jelena Majkic of Raytheon approached fraud from the internal audit perspective in Combating Fraud: Trends & Techniques.  Ellen Lux of Raytheon spoke to process improvement in internal audit including Six Sigma and Lean in Five Ways to Improve the Process.  Tom O'Reilly from Auditboard spoke on the Practice of Internal Audit, and spoke on effective risk assessments and internal audit processes.  We also collected $335 in donations by cash and check to RI Community food bank along with over 10…
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2017 Excellence Awards

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2017 ACFE RI Excellence Awards.  We honored our excellence award recipient and our speaker of the year.  We also awarded our annual scholarship, congratulated new CFEs, and had some great training. 2017 ACFE RI Excellence Award This year, we are pleased to honor Matthew Amsden Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service—Criminal Investigations. Special Agent Amsden was selected for his work in a case involving $2.6M Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Scheme perpetrated by a Pawtucket supermarket owner.  Each year, our Excellence awards honors an individual or individuals who have: played a significant…
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Social Media Intelligence – March 2017 Training Recap

Joe Stephenson of Hagerty Insurance and Michael Manni of Capital Investigating gave a engaging presentation on Social Media Intelligence on March 27th.  They provided some great tips and resources for investigations involving social media. Many thanks to Beacon Mutual for hosting the event! Some comments from the attendees: "Excellent Presentation.  Very useful information for investigative purposes across the board for attendees coming from different organizations." "Great training.  One of the best.  This was a fantastic and very effective/informative training.  Topic was universally appealing to audience."  
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