Rider to Host Forensic Accounting & Technology Conference on May 7

Rider University’s second annual Forensic Accounting & Technology Conference on Monday, May 7 in the Bart Luedeke Center will feature topics such as fraud investigation, the auditing expectation gap, forensic accounting technology, accounting litigation support, and data mining tools and techniques.

Sponsored by Rider’s Center for Business Forensics, the day-long conference will feature experts from industry, law enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service discussing the key issues in their respective fields.

The conference is specifically for accountants in business, industry and academia, forensic accountants and attorneys, internal and independent auditors, and technologists involved with security and investigation.

The session leaders are:

Paul E. Zikmund, principal of Fraud and Forensic Services at SolomonEdwardsGroup, LLC, Philadelphia, PA. Zikmund provides fraud investigation, detection and prevention services to clients. He will present an interactive fraud case study, and will take attendees through the fraud investigation process – developing a fraud theory, writing the report, collecting evidence and interviewing.

Gary B. Rosen, CPA, CFE, Wilkin & Guttenplan, East Brunswick, NJ. A shareholder of Wilkin & Guttenplan, Rosen specializes in servicing hundreds of Common Interest Realty Association (CIRA) and other real estate clients. His client base also includes closely held businesses and emerging growth companies. He will lead a panel discussion on the auditing “expectation gap,” which refers to the difference between what public and financial statement users believe the responsibilities of auditors are and what auditors believe their responsibilities are.

James Glynn, computer investigative specialist for the IRS and a 1985 Rider accounting graduate. Glynn will discuss forensic accounting technology. In a fraud investigation, computer forensics can be as important as the audit. Seminar topics will include computer evidence acquisition, handling and preservation, and analysis.

Donald E. Conway, principal, The Mercadien Group, Princeton, NJ. In this session, Conway will examine warning signs of white-collar fraud. He will begin with what the investigator needs to know about the target, and present an action plan for collecting this information.

Charles Ouslander, Esq., assistant prosecutor, Hunterdon County, NJ. Ouslander will discuss data protection and privacy law. This session covers the legal liabilities and duties of individuals, governments and businesses regarding the creation, compilation, use, dissemination and retention of all forms of data.

Darryl Neier, partner, Forensic Accounting/Litigation Support, Sobel & Company, Livingston, NJ. Accountants have long provided assistance to attorneys and corporations. In this session, Neier will present what is considered a “litigation support specialist,” how to become one, and/or retain the services of a litigation support specialist as a testifying expert or consultant.

William Amadio, director of Rider’s Center for Business Forensics and professor of computer information systems, will present a session on data mining. Attendees will practice with data mining tools and techniques. They will examine a dataset based on an article recently published in “Fraud Magazine,” a publication of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

For further information about the conference, contact Dr. Amadio at 609-896-5254 or amadio@rider.edu, or contact Dr. Larry Prober, professor of accounting at 609-895-5525 or prober@rider.edu.