Join us for the quarterly Central Indiana Chapter of the ACFE training event and learn more about Forensic Accounting with Brenda Buetow. Brenda will provide attendees with foundational information regarding techniques, auditing, and investigative skills needed to examine and assess financial records. With that foundation in place, Brenda will walk attendees through the use of forensic accounting to investigate allegations of fraudulent acts and prepare for testifying in a court of law as to the findings of the forensic engagement.  Brenda will share case studies of Indiana businesses who fell victim to employee fraud to include intimate details like the source of the allegation, how it was investigated, preparing for depositions, publishing court exhibits and testifying as an expert witness.

The training will finish with a discussion of how forensic accountants can help in international investigations involving Sanctions and Money Laundering, which are on the rise against companies and individuals.  Actual cases will be used again to illustrate techniques in these cases.

Brenda Buetow was a Senior Manager in Crowe Howrath’s Risk Consulting and Forensic Services Group for over 18 years and is currently a Senior Manager with Baker Tilly’s Global Forensic, Compliance and Integrity Services.  She has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of forensic investigation, data analytics, complex financial investigations, interviewing, fraud risk management consulting, and regulatory remediation consulting.  Brenda has provided expert testimony in a multi-year embezzlement case at a non-profit, served as a fact witness in a nursing home embezzlement case, and as a Master of the Court for a complex telecommunications revenue calculation case.  She has assisted clients domestically and internationally requiring vast knowledge of global laws, rules and regulations.

Brenda is a frequent national and international speaker on the topics of fraud prevention, detection, monitoring, investigations, the use of data analytics to enhance investigations, FCPA and other anti-bribery and corruption laws, and AML/terrorist financing.  Brenda has been an instructor for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a presenter and facilitator at the ACFE Global Fraud Conference and has written articles on financial crime-related topics published in various professional publications.