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What Every CPA Should Know About Scams: Awareness, Prevention & Reporting 1 Credit

Mar 18, 2024, 02:30 PM ET

What Every CPA Should Know About Scams: Awareness, Prevention & Reporting 1 Credit

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Mar 18, 2024, 02:30 PM ET

Learning Objective

  • To define the term Scam.
  • To describe the red flags of Scams.
  • To analyze prevention and mitigation strategies for Scams.
  • To explain action steps for a victim of a Scam. 

Course Overview

CPAs and other professionals are often tasked with dealing with the aftermath of someone victimized by a Scam.

This CPE Auditing webinar chronicles the history of scams and how they have been repurposed to defraud victims today. It explores various case examples. Most importantly, it will describe prevention methods, mitigation strategies, and reporting options.

The speaker Vic Hartman provides unique insights into Scams. He also offers attention-getting case examples to bring the material to life. The presenter is a 25-year veteran of the FBI. He is also an attorney and CPA that specializes in internal investigations in his private practice.

The following are the Highlights of this CPE webinar:

  • Provide the history of Scams.
  • Provides various case examples.
  • Describes who is the most vulnerable.
  • Provides legal remedies and agencies that can help.

This CPE course describes the many facets of modern-day “Scams.” It is packed full of information and practitioner pointers. It does an excellent job of providing awareness so that practitioners can quickly spot Scams. The presentation is not only educational and informative, but it also does an excellent job of capturing the participant’s attention. 

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Course Level

Basic

Instructional Method

QAS Self Study
Group Internet Based

Pre-requisites

None

Advance Preparation

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About Instructor

Victor Hartman - Expert-Led CE/CPE/CPD Courses
Victor Hartman, JD, CPA/CFF, CFE

Principal, The Hartman Firm, LLC

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Vic Hartman is the Principal of The Hartman Firm, LLC, and a member of the Behavioral Forensics Group, LLC. He is a veteran FBI Special Agent of 25 years, an attorney, CPA, author, professor, and practitioner. Vic specializes in internal investigations, forensic accounting, and fraud mitigation consulting.

Vic is active in the forensic accounting and fraud examination community. He teaches a master’s-level forensic accounting course at Georgia State University. He is the author of the book, The Honest Truth About Fraud which he uses in the classroom, webinars, and workshops where he speaks.

He is also the editor of the Fraud Column in New Perspectives, the professional journal of the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, and is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting.

Vic is a graduate of Emory University’s School of Law. His credentials include being Certified in Financial Forensics by the AICPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner by the ACFE. He is a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, and he previously served on the Board of Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta. Vic is a past Board member of the Atlanta Governing Board of the Office of Inspector General. He is a past two-term President of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

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Michael Sowa, CPA (US)

Course materials and presenter provide excellent material and knowledge to help inform audience of situations to be careful of sharing information on phone and online requests.

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Steve Gentry, CPA (US)

This presentation provided good background information on types of scams and preventive measures that can be taken to protect oneself from possibly being a victim.

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