Dr. Mark Nigrini to present at ISACA Toronto Seminar on Benford’s Law and Continuous Monitoring
Toronto, Ontario, Canada – November 14, 2011 - CaseWare, an industry leader in technology solutions for professionals in audit, governance and finance announced that Dr. Mark Nigrini, renowned expert on Benford’s Law, will be presenting to the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Toronto chapter on Benford’s Law and Continuous Monitoring (CM).
The event will be held at The Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, Ontario on November 17th, 2011 (1pm EST). The seminar will look at how Benford’s Law can be applied to fraud detection and how Continuous Monitoring complements Enterprise Risk Management initiatives and COSO’s Internal Control Framework, in the context of enabling an environment for highly effective internal controls.
Mark Nigrini, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey where he teaches auditing and forensic accounting. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B Com (Hons) from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch. His Ph.D. in Accounting is from the University of Cincinnati where he discovered Benford's Law. His dissertation was titled The Detection of Income Tax Evasion through an Analysis of Digital Distributions. Mark has published papers and articles on Benford’s Law, auditing, and accounting in numerous academic journals such as The Journal of the American Taxation Association and practitioner journals such as The Internal Auditor. Mark's most recent book Forensic Analytics addresses methods and techniques for forensic accounting investigations.
For more information on the event, visit https://isaca.toronto.on.ca/ed.v.aspx?Eventid=199&v=u
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