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Instructor
Jo Erven
Instructor
Amanda “Jo” Erven is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and the President and Founder of Audit. Consulting. Education. LLC. Jo’s firm specializes in progressive internal audit, risk, fraud, and ethics consulting along with providing impactful training courses to organizations. Jo is also a full-time, accounting faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver as well as the Director of Internal Audit Education for the University. Jo’s educational background includes both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting from the University of Georgia. She started her career in public accounting at one of the Big Four firms, experienced a traditional accounting role at a multinational oilfield services corporation, and directed an internal audit function at an international financial services organization. Jo has written and published three books, is a member of many professional organizations, and personally advocates and fundraises for women and men surviving and thriving through breast cancer. After finding out she was positive for the breast and ovarian cancer gene mutation (BRCA1), Jo underwent multiple preventative surgeries (6 surgeries in 22 months!), including a full hysterectomy and a double mastectomy. She believes knowledge is power and encourages others to take action in their personal AND professional lives.
What went wrong at companies like Enron, Wells Fargo, Yahoo, BP, and Volkswagen? There likely was a breakdown somewhere in the audit functions (internal or external), but the real underlying problem was NOT audit and most important, the solution does not rest in “doing more audits.” The real breakdown was in the integrity and ETHICS of the organizations. It was the leadership failure of the managers, executives, and the Board. In this session, we will dive into organizational integrity and how you can help create and sustain an ethical culture.
In this session, we will review a series of major misconduct and fraud cases as well as the mission statements of several, what I refer to as, “in the news” companies. We will use these lessons to formulate real solutions that internal auditors and management can apply to ethics processes and policies within your organization.
All Internal Auditors and others interested in learning what they can do to influence ethical behavior at their organizations.