February 2007
President's Message
January 29, 2007
Dear Chapter Members,
I hope that your holidays with family and friends were special, and
your New Year is off to a great start! The second half of our Chapter year
started with an exciting monthly meeting onsite with Nielsen Media
Research, discussing process auditing and Nielsen’s unique approach to
creating an internal audit practice. The feedback we received from our
meeting evaluations was the highest of any meeting or seminar this year.
Great job Danny, Gerry, and Darren and your presentations and the
beautiful facility! Our next monthly meeting is a joint meeting with the
IMA and sponsored by Robert Half – if you haven’t had a chance to attend a
monthly meeting, please make an effort to come out and network with us.
Next month, we have a great Fraud program sponsored by Protiviti that
you will not want to miss! Full details are listed on our website – be
sure to get registered as soon as possible, as our Fraud seminar generally
fills up very quickly. Our May seminar will include a four hour Ethics
program, with CPE credit suitable for all certifications (through NASB and
FICPA).
Look for details on our inaugural Golf Tournament in April – we are in
the process of finalizing details and logistics and are looking forward to
having a great time, while benefiting our students by proceeds going
toward scholarships. If you are interested in sponsoring the tournament,
or a specific hole, we’ll have different levels of opportunity that will
be published on the website in the next two weeks. We’ll be selling
foursomes and individual spots and playing in a scramble format. If you’d
like to assist in the planning and organizing of the event – we’d love
your assistance! Please either give me a call or email!
We are continuing to progress toward our 14th year as a Platinum
chapter, but need your help! If you have written articles, or participated
in educational activities pertaining to internal audit, please make sure
you are reporting your hours using the Speaking & Writing report
linked below. Academic Relations Committee Chair Kate Head earned a
prestigious award last year, but wasn’t satisfied with second place!
I’ve enjoyed serving as Chapter President of the Florida West Coast
Chapter of the IIA, and am looking forward to the second half our of our
chapter year. I want to thank my team of Officer’s and Committee Chair’s
as they’ve all worked very hard to bring great programs to our chapter. As
always, we are looking for dedicated volunteers to serve as Officers,
Board of Governor’s or Committee Chairs. Please contact any Officer or BOG
if you’d like to spend some time with us in promoting the profession of
internal audit.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing you real soon!
Tammy L. Griffin
20065-2007 Chapter President
February Seminar
FRAUD
Sponsored by
Monday February 5, 2007
8:30 - 4:30
Please join us for a fun filled day of corruption, profiteering, and
general shadiness. Speakers include accounting and legal experts, none of
which are currently under indictment!
Quorum Hotel,
700 N. Westshore Boulevard, Tampa (Map)
RSVP On-line
- When attending under the pre-paid plan, please RSVP with the
specific attendees each time.
Price* - $150 members of IIA, ISACA or IMA, $175
non-members
* - for non IIA Package holders
Presenters
- Phil Fretwell, Protiviti Managing Director – Latin America/Central
Florida
- David Taylor, Protiviti Director – Technology Risk
- Laura Krueger Brock, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. Partner
- Bill Thomas, Protiviti Managing Director – Southeast Region Internal
Audit
- Katy Thompson, Protiviti Director – Business Risk Billy Marlin,
Protiviti Director - Business Risk
- Craig Matsumoto, Managing Director - Loss Prevention Consultative
Group at Protiviti
- Kevin Herzberg, Southeast Managing Director - True Partners
Consulting LLC
- Robert Clark, Manager- True Partners Consulting LLC Topics
8:00-8:30 Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:30-4:30:
- International Fraud – “Considerations in a global economy”
- Information System Fraud – “With new crime comes new crime fighting”
- Forensics Accounting – “The expansion of proactive fraud detection”
- Fraud Risk – “Assessment and solutions”
- Loss Prevention Strategy – “Retail fraud concerns”
- Stock Options – “How to keep your company out of the news”
- E-discovery – “The auditors expanding role”
- Tax Fraud – “Understanding risks for today’s internal auditor”
March Meeting
Enterprise Risk Management
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Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration / Light fare;
6:00pm - 7:50pm Program (2 CPEs)
Location: Centre Club, 123 South Westshore Blvd, Tampa (Map)
Cost: $30 for IIA/IMA Members, $35 non-members
While your business environment evolves, so do the risks you face. New
vulnerabilities appear while old fears antiquate. Can you distinguish
between the two?
Identify, understand, mitigate. This is the ERM formula for a good
nights sleep.
Speaker: Scott Norton, Director – Protiviti
Scott is a Director in the Orlando office of Protiviti. Scott is an
Enterprise Risk Management Champion within Protiviti where his
responsibilities include shaping Protiviti’s methodology and conducting
staff training and education in this evolving area. Scott is a leader in
the Orlando Internal Audit practice and is also heavily in involved
providing consulting services related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Topical Outline:
Introduction to ERM U.S. Risk Barometer key findings The COSO ERM
framework Risks that companies face Common Sense Approach to ERM Selected
Case Studies on ERM Implementers.
Report Your Speaking and Writing
It's time again for the survey to determine which IIA Tampa Bay Chapter
members have submitted articles or spoken in since June 1, 2006. Each
speaking engagement on internal auditing that a Tampa Bay Chapter member
completes will earn the Chapter 1 credit per CPD hour. Each full article,
Roundtable article, Fraud Finding, etc. submitted that meets basic
editorial guidelines will earn 5 credits. For each full article published
20 credits are earned. Each internal audit related article published in
any other trade or professional journal that is authored by a chapter
member is 5 credits.
To report your writing and speaking go to http://tampabayiia.org/Speaking.htm
and complete the provided form by
February 15,
2007.
Have an item for our next Newsletter? Email Newsletter Chair Kristine
Del Vecchio (kdelvecchio@metlife.com) with
your submission no later than March 1,
2007.
Go to our web site, tampabayiia.org, to contact any of our
Chapter Officers, Committee Chairs or Board of Governors
members. | 
