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An Interview With A Felon - Private Company CFO/CPA Fraud Sends CEO to Prison


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Behavioral Ethics - Non-technical

Average Rating:
   55
Categories:
Accounting and Auditing |  ACPEN Industry Institute |  Ethics |  Industry
Faculty:
Gary Zeune, CPA |  Walt Pavlo |  Peter Pinto - Former CEO Oxford Collections
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:

Dates


Description

Peter Pinto was the CEO of a fast growing collection agency that had top tier banking and financial institutions as clients. Pinto hid fraud from creditors, which sent him to federal prison.

 

Please Note:  This course is not approved for Texas, Florida, Virginia, Washington Ethics or any other state with a state specific ethics requirement.  Contact help@acpen.com if you have specific questions on your state.  

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives

*Understand the pressures that business owners face in trying meet their financial obligations

*Understand how they rationalize decisions rather than face consequences.


Major Subjects

*Pressures faced by business owners

*Aggressive growth strategies and risks that small business owner undertake

*Ways to coach small business owners about making ethical choices

*Motivations of individuals who commit fraud

*Means used by business owners to avoid fraud detection


Course Materials

Faculty

Gary Zeune, CPA's Profile

Gary Zeune, CPA Related Seminars and Products

The Pros and the Cons


Gary Zeune has instructed Strategy Formulation and Implementation in the Executive MBA Program and Accounting and Honors Finance at The Ohio State University. He is also a member of the Education Executive Council and is past chairman of the Education Marketing and Public Relations Committees of The Ohio Society of CPAs. His other memberships include: the American Institute of CPAs, and the Regulation of Public Offerings Committee of the Ohio Division of Securities.

Prior to forming his consulting practice in 1986, Mr. Zeune was an Assistant Vice President of Corporate Finance at The Ohio Company, a Columbus, Ohio investment banking firm. He also spent more than five years in Treasury and Finance at Wendy's International, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, financial and SEC reporting, and corporate finance. He was on the audit staff of Ernst & Ernst from 1973 to 1977; and taught accounting at Ohio University from 1970 to 1973, where he received his bachelors in mathematics and masters in accounting, with honors.


Walt Pavlo's Profile

Walt Pavlo Related Seminars and Products


Walt Pavlo is the president of Prisonology, an educational software supporting law firms and their clients on information about the federal prison system.  He is a contributor to Forbes.com where he writes on white-collar crime and is the co-author of Stolen Without A Gun, which he co-wrote with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg). Mr. Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who has been a part of training programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, major corporations, professional societies and top ranked MBA programs across the country.

Mr. Pavlo earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University and his MBA in Finance from Mercer University.  He is also a Journalist Law School Fellow at Loyola Law School (2014).

 


Peter Pinto - Former CEO Oxford Collections Related Seminars and Products


Peter Pinto is the former CEO of Oxford Collection Agency where he rose from a bill collector to become head of a 400-employee company.  Oxford was responsible for the collections of debts from auto, banking, credit card, education, telecommunication and utility companies throughout the United States.  Peter is a life-long entrepreneur and is currently conducting lectures on his experiences while at Oxford.

 

Pinto has a degree in Speech, Arts and Communications.


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For

CPAs in public practice, business and industry, managing partners, General Counsel,  compliance officers, chief learning officers, risk managers, and regulators


Original Recording Date 04/06/2016
Yellow Book No
Course Developer The Pros and the Cons
Date Added to Catalog 03/29/2016

Additional Information

Complaint Resolution Policy Please contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Refund/Cancellation Policy

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Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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Total Reviews: 55

Comments

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"Great seminar! "

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