Audio Conferences

  July 21, 2005 at 02:00PM ET

On average, one percent of outgoing T&E payments —and even more troublesome— 4.8 percent of incoming expense claims from employees are found to contain mistakes, according to the IOMA's A/P Department Benchmarks & Analysis.

The travel and entertainment (T&E) claims process is an area highly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. But, even innocent mistakes can cost your organization money.

Are you controlling your T&E costs? And, as Sarbanes-Oxley regulations enforcement grows more stringent, are you implementing effective audits to manage your company’s T&E expense claims?

Whether you use a highly-automated system or still push paper around, join IOMA and Rich Lanza to learn valuable tips and techniques that will improve your T&E controls and develop a T&E audit process in your organization.

Just in 90 minutes you will get a thorough understanding of:

• Steps to build an effective audit program
  • How large a group should you audit?
  • How to aggregate, monitor and analyze expense data
  • Audit employees' compliance with spending policies
  • Identify errors and fraud sooner to minimize losses and reduce business risk
• Who should be involved in the audit team
• Tests you can perform to highlight errors and fraud in your T&E process
• Developing sound internal controls to prevent issues in your T&E process
• Satisfying the IRS recordkeeping requirements
• Internal T&E policies: How the audit process can improve these

FEATURED FACULTY:

Richard B. Lanza, CPA, CFE, PMP

Rich Lanza (CPA, CFE, PMP) enables organizations in the use of technology to (1) generate cash recoveries, (2) stop profit leaks, (3) move away from control issues, and (4) work towards process improvements. With automated report systems and personalized coaching, Rich helps companies get quality results in minutes. This is done by maximizing the technology companies already have and showing professionals how to become “info magicians”. He is the author of 12 publications and training courses in ACL, IDEA, Access, ActiveData, and Excel and has over 50 articles for major audit publications including being a column editor for the ACFE's Fraud Magazine. While he has over 13 years of experience and is a recognized leader in the use of technology, Rich also founded of auditSoftware.net, a free website devoted to using technology for generating bottom line results.

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