"Truth or Consequences"
Fraud Seminar

Joint meeting with ISACA & IMA;
Exclusive Sponsor: PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Cocktail reception following sponsored by Robert Half International

View pictures from the event

8 Hours CPE - $125 members, $150 non-members*

RSVP Online by:

5:00 pm Wednesday February 22, 2006

* - Per seminar price if you are not a participant in the chapter's Pre-paid Seminar Pricing Plan

Tuesday February 28, 2006
8:00 - 5:00

Hyatt Regency Hotel (Map)
211 North Tampa Street, Tampa, 33602

7:30 - 8:00 am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 9:40 am: 'My Favorite Frauds', presented by Dennis Dycus, Director of Audit, State of Tennessee
9:40 - 9:55 am: Break
9:55 - 10:45 am: ‘Walkin’, talkin’, lookin’ & listenin’ presented by Dennis Dycus, Director of Audit, State of Tennessee
10:45 - 11:45 am: SOX Mandated Approach to Fraud for Public Companies, presented by Jonny Frank and Bill Warren, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
11:45 - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 pm: WorldCom Update, presented by Cynthia Cooper, Time Magazine's 2002 Person of the Year
3:00 - 3:15 pm: Break
3:15 - 5:00 pm: Fraud Panel, moderated by Dr. Terry Engle, USF College of Business; Dennis Dycus, Cynthia Cooper & Bill Warren
5:00 - 6:00 pm: Reception sponsored by Robert Half International

Cynthia Cooper

Cynthia Cooper is most well-known for her role in uncovering the corporate fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history. She was named one of Time Magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the fraud. Time Magazine has been naming its Person of the Year since 1927. The designation is given to the person or person(s) who most affected events during the year. Prior to Ms. Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley, the designation has been given to only four women including Wallis Simpson, Madam Chiang Kai Shek, Elizabeth II, and Corazon Aquino.

Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Ms. Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women's Economic Road Table. This award was presented to Ms. Cooper due to her extraordinary contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance.

Ms. Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. The American Accounting Association's Public Interest Section recognized Ms. Cooper for her efforts to promote professionalism and ethics in the accounting profession.

Ms. Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award. She speaks publicly to both professionals and students about ethics and leadership. Ms. Cooper previously served as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI until July 2004. Prior to joining MCI, she worked in public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. Ms Cooper received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University and her Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama.

Ms. Cooper is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. In addition to her professional designations, she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Ms. Cooper previously served on the Accounting Advisory Board for the University of Alabama, and currently serves on the Louisiana State University Center for Internal Auditing Advisory Board. Ms. Cooper speaks to high school and college students across the country to share some of the lessons she has learned and to emphasize the importance of strong ethical and moral leadership.

She resides in Mississippi with her husband Lance Cooper and their two daughters.

Dennis F. Dycus, CFE, CPA, CGFM

Dennis F. Dycus, CFE, CPA, CGFM, presently serves as the Director of the Division of Municipal Audit for the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, State of Tennessee. The Division is responsible for the annual audit of all municipalities, utility districts, school activity and cafeteria funds, housing authorities, certain not-for-profit organizations and other quasi-governmental entities in the State of Tennessee. In addition, the Division's staff conducts numerous audits for fraud, waste and abuse each year. From the beginning of his career with a national accounting firm, through the last 32 years of involvement with the audits of all forms of governmental entities, he brings a wealth of practical experience to his presentations. A graduate of Western Kentucky University, Mr. Dycus is a frequent guest speaker/lecturer for various college business/accounting classes, professional associations, local, state and national conferences and not-for-profit organizations.

In 1996, the Eta Omicron Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi presented him with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in recognition of his support of the WKU Accounting Department where he presently serves as a member of the Accounting Advisory Council for the Gordon Ford College of Business. He previously served as a member of the Accounting Advisory Board at Middle Tennessee State University. A 1986 graduate of the Tennessee Government Executive Institute, Mr. Dycus is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants where he previously served on the Members in Government Committee, the Ad Hoc CPE Curriculum Task Force on Government and the National CPE Curriculum Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Government Accountants, where he previously served as chapter president; the Government Finance Officers Association, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, where he also served as chapter president and is a former member of Association's Board of Regents as well as a member of their instructor faculty on a national basis.

Recently he was elected to serve as a member of the Association's first board of directors as a not-for-profit corporation. For the last several years, Mr. Dycus has developed and/or conducted training programs in all fifty states, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Canada, for organizations such as

the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners;
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants;
numerous state societies of certified public accountants;
the Government Finance Officers Association;
the Association of Government Accountants; the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers; Westcott Communications, Inc.;
IBM; HCA; Saturn, Inc., the US Department of Labor; the General Accounting Office; the Internal Revenue Service;
Bisk Education, Inc.; Nichols Education, Inc.;
numerous state audit organizations and individual professional firms.

He is a frequent speaker at various professional conferences, both on a local and national level. In 1989 and again in 1997, he was the recipient of the AGA's, National Education and Training Award and was presented with an Outstanding Discussion Leader Award by the Florida Society of CPAs. In 1998 he was honored with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner's, Distinguished Achievement Award for his meritorious service in the detection and deterrence of fraud and in 2001 was one of only three individuals to receive the designation as a Fellow of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in recognition for his contribution to expanding the Association's body of knowledge toward the detection of fraud. In 2003 he was the recipient of the Tennessee Society of CPA's first ever, Outstanding CPA in Government Award and in 2004 received the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' Outstanding CFE in Government Award. In addition, he has authored articles on auditing for fraud for national publications.

Jonny J. Frank

Jonny Frank leads PwC Fraud Risks & Controls, which assists clients and PwC audit teams to identify, prevent, detect, and remediate fraud and misconduct risks to improve consideration of fraud in the integrated audit, qualify clients under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, reduce costs, increase earnings, and, most importantly, mitigate reputation risk.

Jonny simultaneously serves as Senior Faculty Fellow on the business school faculty of the Yale School of Management where he teaches Financial Fraud and Reputation Risk Management and on the law faculty of Fordham University, Complex Criminal Investigations and International Criminal Law.

Prior to entering the private sector, Jonny served for over a decade as Federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in New York where he held the positions of Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, Chief, Special Prosecutions and ultimately appointment as the Executive Assistant United States Attorney. His prosecutorial career focused on corruption, organized crime and economic crimes involving large corporations. In the mid-1990s, the Justice Department appointed Jonny to serve as Special Counsel to the New York City Mayoral Commission on Police Corruption and delegated him to train Polish judges and prosecutors and help assess proposed criminal codes of the Republics of Latvia and Lithuania, as those countries entered the post-communism era.

Jonny is an award winning author of over 30 articles and book chapters. In 2005, he received the Thurston Award for outstanding scholarship for his article, Fraud Risk Assessment. In 2002, his A Few Good Frauds – which focuses on “good” and “bad” fraud in mergers and acquisitions, earned him an award for creative scholarship from the Daily Deal. Jonny has delivered over 75 lectures worldwide on various subjects involving the prevention, detection, investigation, and remediation of fraud, corruption, and economic misconduct.

Bill Warren: Graduate Indiana University Cum Laude BS Accounting 1991. Bill joined Price Waterhouse in 1991 and is currently a director in PwC’s Fraud Risk and Controls practice with 14 years of experience in financial statement audits and forensic accounting investigations. His experience includes financial statement audits in the entertainment and media, software, and consumer products industries and forensic investigations in the technology industry. As a director in the firm’s fraud risk and controls practice, Bill serves as a subject matter expert for numerous audit engagement teams with respect to our clients’ antifraud programs and controls.

Bill Warren

Bill Warren is a graduate Indiana University Cum Laude BS Accounting 1991. He joined Price Waterhouse in 1991 and is currently a director in PwC’s Fraud Risk and Controls practice with 14 years of experience in financial statement audits and forensic accounting investigations. His experience includes financial statement audits in the entertainment and media, software, and consumer products industries and forensic investigations in the technology industry. As a director in the firm’s fraud risk and controls practice, Bill serves as a subject matter expert for numerous audit engagement teams with respect to our clients’ antifraud programs and controls.