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ARTICLE SPOTLIGHT:  A BETRAYAL OF TRUST

By Becky Wright, Standard Examiner, Aug. 30, ‘09

Victims of embezzlement are often shocked to find their money was taken by a trusted employee. “But they were so nice” is what Michael Hines regularly hears.

“If I come in heavily covered with tattoos, using foul and abusive language, I’m not going to be able to take your money,” said Hines, director of enforcement for the Utah Div. of Securities. “One characteristic normally necessary to commit this type of crime is being nice” Read more...

 

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Facilitating Control and Risk Self Assessments

A good core and comprehensive introduction to risk assessment and risk management.  You will learn different methods most commonly being developed for going about developing a philosophy and approach to managing risk, and then using that to learn how to develop unit-wide risk assessments, including prioritizing risks, integrating in CSA methodologies and using the data gathered to develop relevant audit plans.  The highlights of this program include:

  1. What is Risk?
  2. How should risk best be assessed?
  3. Enterprise Risk Management vs. Risk Assessments:  How to conduct them successfully every time
  4. Two Fundamental Approaches:  The typical/traditional one and the one that works
  5. Gaining People's Buy-In to do Risk Assessments
  6. Your Risk Assessment:  Yet other considerations
  7. Fitting Control Self-Assessment Into the Risk Assessment
  8. Practice, Practice, Practice

Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Assessments:  How To Conduct Them Successfully Every Time

  1. What exactly are each of these, how they work, and why ALL are of critical importance in Risk Assessment processes and Risk Management
  2. How to integrate all three arenas above so that they work together and complement each other
  3. Risk Assessment within your department, with your clients
  4. Different approaches to doing risk assessments
  5. The step-by-step process for doing a risk assessment
  6. Pre-work involved before working with clients on assessments
  7. Pre-meetings with management to set up the risk assessment process
  8. Conducting risk assessments
  9. What questions to ask clients and how to ask them
  10. Facilitated approaches, skills and tools to use if using a group approach
  11. Setting up pilots
  12. Conservative vs. creative approaches to doing the assessments
  13. Action plans, follow-up, and monitoring change

NOTE:  Most of our programs incorporate risk and control analysis and extensive information about risk and control standards.

 

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