November 10, 2025

Live Webcast

NASBA 8
•
NYSED 8

CFO - Preparing for Trouble Webinar

November 10, 2025
Live Webcast
NASBA 8
•
NYSED 8

CFO - Preparing for Trouble Webinar

  • Instructor

    Anita
    Layton

  • The need for crisis management and business continuity plans
  • Risk assessment and identification
  • How to develop a crisis management framework
  • Crisis communication strategies
  • Business continuity planning essentials
  • Keys to crisis leadership and decision making in a crisis
  • Understanding fraud
  • Definitions and types
  • How are frauds caught?
  • Where, how, and when to look
  • Common red flags
  • How to reduce your fraud risks
  • What is an investigation and when is it warranted?
  • How to prepare for an investigation
  • Who should conduct it and defining the boundaries
  • When to outsource vs. conduct the investigation internally
  • Evidence collection and preservation
  • The paper and data trail
  • Witness statements
  • Employee rights during investigations
  • Investigative techniques (data analytics, surveillance, interviews)
  • Reporting results
  • When to take the next step – the legal process
  • Explain AI and ML and describe potential finance-related applications for both.
  • Demonstrate the growth of AI.
  • Discuss practical applications and risks for AI and ML, specific for accounting and finance.
  • Bookmark and share examples of ethical policies to help mitigate these risks.
  • Demonstrate prompt engineering tips to yield desired responses from Generative AI tools like Chat GPT, Gemini, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft Copilot.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify potential threats and conduct rapid risk assessments. Develop a comprehensive crisis management plan tailored to your organization. Implement effective communication strategies during a crisis and before. Create a business continuity plan with essential recovery strategies. Lead your organization confidently through crises and make informed decisions under pressure.
  • Identify key fraud indicators and red flags within organizational processes. Implement strategies to establish a strong anti-fraud culture. How are culture and fraud connected? Enhance awareness of fraud risks and prevention techniques. Learn the tools to evaluate and improve internal controls for proactive fraud management.
  • Understand the proper process to conduct an internal investigation. What are some of the risks, legal issues, and pitfalls?
  • Recognize and accept that AI and ML are important new technologies that will impact nearly every organization. Understand the risks, advantages, and the issues of deploying AI and ML. Better understand how to optimize the effectiveness of AI and ML.

Major Topics

  • The need for crisis management and business continuity plans
  • Risk assessment and identification
  • How to develop a crisis management framework
  • Crisis communication strategies
  • Business continuity planning essentials
  • Keys to crisis leadership and decision making in a crisis
  • Understanding fraud
  • Definitions and types
  • How are frauds caught?
  • Where, how, and when to look
  • Common red flags
  • How to reduce your fraud risks
  • What is an investigation and when is it warranted?
  • How to prepare for an investigation
  • Who should conduct it and defining the boundaries
  • When to outsource vs. conduct the investigation internally
  • Evidence collection and preservation
  • The paper and data trail
  • Witness statements
  • Employee rights during investigations
  • Investigative techniques (data analytics, surveillance, interviews)
  • Reporting results
  • When to take the next step – the legal process
  • Explain AI and ML and describe potential finance-related applications for both.
  • Demonstrate the growth of AI.
  • Discuss practical applications and risks for AI and ML, specific for accounting and finance.
  • Bookmark and share examples of ethical policies to help mitigate these risks.
  • Demonstrate prompt engineering tips to yield desired responses from Generative AI tools like Chat GPT, Gemini, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft Copilot.

CPE Credits Available

NASBA 8
NYSED 8
1
Accounting (NASBA) - NASBA
1
Accounting (NYSED) - NYSED
1
Advisory Services (NYSED) - NYSED
6
Auditing (NASBA) - NASBA
6
Auditing (NYSED) - NYSED
1
Bus. Management & Org. (NASBA) - NASBA

Things to Know About This Course

Course Level

  • Intermediate

Professional Area of Focus

  • Accounting (NASBA)
  • Accounting (NYSED)
  • Advisory Services (NYSED)
  • Auditing (NASBA)
  • Auditing (NYSED)
  • Bus. Management & Org. (NASBA)

Prerequisites

None, but participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with basic fraud concepts. Preferably at least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience

Advanced Preparation

None, but participants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with basic fraud concepts. Preferably at least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience

Intended Audience

Corporate financial leaders, corporate financial managers, CEOs, CFOs, controllers, accountants, board members, advisors, and consultants; CPAs in public practice and CPAs in industry; business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals who are interested in enhancing their ability to manage in a crisis, enhance their fraud detection and prevention capabilities and remain current with artificial intelligence to be prepared for the changes today and in the future.

Provider

The Knowledge Institute

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