"How to prevent and detect corporate fraud!!" Under COSO 2013, Principle 8: "The organization considers the potential for fraud in assessing risks to the achievement of objectives". Corporate fraud is more prevalent today than ever before. Layoffs, pressures, incentives, anonymity, computerization, and lack of privacy are all contributing factors. This CPE event is focused on presenting the internal controls to fraud prevention and detection....

Do you understand PCAOB Auditing Standard 2315: Audit Sampling? Audit sampling is the application of an audit procedure to less than 100 percent of the items within an account balance or class of transactions for the purpose of evaluating some characteristic of the balance or class. PCAOB Audit Standard 2315: Audit Sampling provides an overview of the guidance for planning, performing, and evaluating audit samples. The purpose of audit samplin...

Security teams must know what to trust and what not to trust at all times to effectively protect machine identities in dynamic environments. As a result, smart policy enforcement must be automated and embedded into the tools used by application development teams. By shifting machine identity processes left into the pre-production phase and hooking directly into automated DevOps workflows, security teams can regain control over X.509 certificat...

Splunking your transportation and public safety data allows you to better understand your traffic and police management systems, and enables you to gain real-time awareness of traffic situations, detect patterns, and improve your citizen services.Join us for a discussion and demonstration of how Splunk can help your organization innovate with speed and confidence with:Real-time integration of video feeds to quickly have eyes on traffic situati...

As part of its risk mitigation strategy, the Cybersecurity Executive Order issued by the White House in May moves Zero Trust architecture to the center of cyber hygiene policy for the federal government. Zero Trust can be summarized easily: Trust nothing, suspect everything, authenticate 100%. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency views this as setting an example for state and local governments looking to strengthen their securi...

A number of states have enacted an elective pass-through entity tax regime including California, Illinois, and New York. We’ll discuss: The subtleties of these state pass-through entity tax regimes as well as the potential impact of electing into them Structural considerations when electing into regimes The federal tax treatment of the tax expense relating to these regimes

Adoption of AI can bring many benefits, but it can also expose organizations to new risks that require management, including bias, operational risks, and vulnerabilities to malicious threats like tampering. Deloitte speakers will discuss a framework to address these risks. We’ll discuss: Current regulatory landscape of AI usage and outlook Developing an AI risk strategy Approaches to proactively monitoring for AI risks Leading capabiliti...

This PCAOB Auditing Standard 2105: Consideration of Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit establishes requirements regarding the auditor's consideration of materiality in planning and performing an audit. In interpreting the federal securities laws, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that a fact is material if there is "a substantial likelihood that the . . . fact would have been viewed by the reasonable investor as having significantly...

This training event covers the two different subsections of the PCAOB Auditing Standard 1300. PCAOB Auditing Standard 1301: Communications with Audit Committees requires the auditor to communicate with the company's audit committee regarding certain matters related to the conduct of an audit and to obtain certain information from the audit committee relevant to the audit. PCAOB Auditing Standard 1305: Communications About Control Deficiencies...

We are seeing a growing trend of RFPs being issued with a preference for contractors with an approved purchasing system. This shift has resulted in many requests for us to address trends and issues that we are observing with Contractor Purchasing System Reviews ("CPSRs"). Please join DHG's Mike Mardesich, Cheryl Ritondale and Jill Pettibone as they discuss top CPSR related trends they have seen over the past year. During this complimentary web...