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Current Fraud Trends - Nonprofit and Government Entities


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Auditing (Governmental) - Technical

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ACPEN Industry Institute |  Accounting and Auditing |  Yellow Book
Faculty:
Jennifer Louis, CPA
Course Levels:
Basic
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

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Description

Nonprofit entities and governmental entities have a high degree of public accountability. This course will examine the most common fraud schemes and provide multiple examples of how to prevent or detect these schemes.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Recall real-world frauds occurring in not-for-profit entities and governments
  • Describe useful fraud prevention tools
  • Explain how real-world frauds were detected

Major Subjects
  • Best practices for fraud prevention and detection
  • Common fraud schemes in nonprofit and government entities including cash misappropriation, payroll fraud, vendor fraud, falsified billings, improper use of credit cards or purchase cards, the redirection of cash and non-cash contributions, personal use of assets, the redirection of grant benefits, other grant related fraud, travel and expense reporting fraud

Course Materials

Faculty

Jennifer Louis, CPA's Profile

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President

EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP


Jennifer has over 25 years experience in designing and instructing high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical and “soft skills” topics needed for professional and organization success.  In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization’s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis.  Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years.  Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and audit process consulting firm later acquired by Thomson Reuters.  Over her six years at AuditWatch, Jennifer served many roles.  She began her career at AuditWatch as Vice President of Product Development.   Jennifer also served as an instructor and consultant for the firm’s Audit Productivity Improvement Program (a comprehensive program enabling accounting firms to enhance audit quality and improve audit efficiency), as well as various other training courses.  Later, Jennifer was primarily responsible for working with clients to design high-caliber, customized training programs.  She led the Training Services Division, which includes AuditWatch University (“core-level” staff training for new hires to managers) and related offerings.  She also co-authored the Guide to Value-Added Auditing (Thomson/Practitioners Publishing Company, Fort Worth, TX, July 2001).

Before joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial/Operational Audit Manager at AARP.  While at AARP she served as one of their specially trained facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing and leading strategic meetings and trainings.

Jennifer was also an Audit Manager at Deloitte, in Washington, DC.  During her five years with Deloitte, she was a frequent local and national instructor.  Jennifer also served as an instructor for the firm’s national “Train the Trainers” program. 

Jennifer graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA-Accounting.  She is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is licensed to practice accounting in the Commonwealth of Virginia and North Carolina.Contact Jennifer via email at jlouis@emergentgroup.net, or via LinkedIn


Dates

Thu, May 08, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Wed, May 21, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PDT
Tue, Jun 03, 2025 - 04:00pm to 05:50pm PDT
Sat, Jun 07, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:50am PDT
Wed, Jun 25, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Wed, Jul 09, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PDT
Thu, Jul 24, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PDT
Tue, Aug 05, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:50am PDT
Sat, Aug 23, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Fri, Sep 05, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PDT
Thu, Sep 18, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PDT
Tue, Oct 07, 2025 - 03:00pm to 04:50pm PDT
Thu, Oct 23, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Tue, Nov 04, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PST
Wed, Nov 19, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PST
Sat, Dec 06, 2025 - 07:00am to 08:50am PST
Wed, Dec 17, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:50am PST
Fri, Dec 26, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PST
Wed, Jan 07, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PST
Tue, Jan 20, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:50am PST
Fri, Feb 13, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:50am PST
Wed, Feb 25, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PST
Tue, Mar 03, 2026 - 04:00pm to 05:50pm PST
Sat, Mar 21, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:50am PDT
Tue, Apr 07, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Wed, Apr 22, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PDT
Mon, May 11, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PDT
Thu, May 21, 2026 - 07:00am to 08:50am PDT
Fri, Jun 05, 2026 - 09:00am to 10:50am PDT
Sat, Jun 13, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:50pm PDT
Tue, Jun 23, 2026 - 01:00pm to 02:50pm PDT

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites None
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For Accountants who have a need to be aware of current fraud trends impacting nonprofits and governments
Original Recording Date 04/2025
Course Developer EMERGENT SOLUTIONS GROUP
Date Added to Catalog 03/2025
Yellow Book Yes

Additional Information

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Instructional Delivery Method

Group Internet Based


Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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