Digital Marketing Partner Organizer

16th September, 2016 - Hotel Le Meridien, Bengaluru

ABOUT THE SEMINAR: Today India has clearly become the epicenter of the global business geography and one of the attractive business destinations for both and foreign and domestic companies. Such investor attraction and influx of money in the Indian business have also led to compounded fraudulent activities in and around the business system. Also the development in technology has further resulted in newer methods and mechanisms of perpetrating fraud.

Organizations of all kinds and sizes are increasingly threatened by fraud. Embezzlement, kickbacks, check fraud, financial statement fraud and vendor billing schemes are just a few of the countless economic crimes committed by employees and outsiders.

In the recent past, India has witnessed some large corporate frauds including the Satyam scandal, NSEL scam and the Saradha Chit Fund scam. These frauds have shocked the business world and shook the investor confidence harming the business sentiments. Of late, regulatory authorities have started taking very stringent actions against such fraudulent activities.

In today's tumultuous business environment and increasing focus by regulators/ government, organizations have begun to comprehend the negative effects of uncontained risk. Unfortunately many professionals tend to underestimate the role of fraud in the scope of their professional duties.

The need of the hour is for a strong anti-fraud stance and proactive, comprehensive approach to combating fraud. As organizations increase their focus on risk, they should take the opportunity to consider, enact and improve measures to detect, deter and prevent fraud across all ambits.

Achromic Point present Corporate Fraud Conclave 2016 to help participants with relevant insights on why frauds happen and how one can be effectively create a culture of ethics and accountability within the organization.

The participants will also learn about the mechanism for protecting the organization with fraud prevention and detection strategies while increasing the confidence of shareholders and clients.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING:

• Gain insight from experienced practitioners into the challenges that affect the fraud risk environment today

• Learn best practices you can incorporate into your own anti-fraud strategy

• Learn about regulatory and legislative landscape of corporate frauds

• Understand how to build an effective internal control system to detect and prevent fraud

• Learn how to create an anti-corruption corporate culture

• Learn how to conduct an effective fraud risk investigation

• Interact with industry best consultants on various contemporary fraud detection methods like digital forensics and dataanalytics

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: • Chief Audit Executives

• Audit Directors and Managers

• Chief Risk Officers and Chief Ethics Officers

• Internal and External Auditors

• Chartered Accountants/ Cost Accountants/

• Company Secretaries

• Fraud Risk/ Management Assurance professionals

• Head of Internal Audit and Internal Audit Managers

• General Counsels and Legal counsels

• CFOs and Finance Directors

• Independent Directors

• MDs and CEOs

• Chief Compliance Officers

AGENDA

SESSION 1: Understanding Corporate Frauds (What is Fraud, Why does fraud happen ?, Key Trends in Corporate Frauds)

SESSION 2: Role of Internal Audit in Fraud Risk Management

SESSION 3: Emerging Trends in Fraud Detections & Prevention in light of Companies Act 2013

SESSION 4: Case Studies

SESSION 5: Data analytics for Detecting and Preventing Fraud (IT and digital tools for detection, prevention and investigation of Frauds, Data analytics to Detect Fraud patterns and irregular transactions/ schemes, Establishing an early warning system to predict potential frauds using modern day technology)

Speaker's Profile

Viswanadh Kuchi PartnerB.K.Khare & Co

Viswanadh is a Partner with B.K. Khare & Co. During his Fifteen years of post qualification working experience in India and abroad, he helped large and mid size corporate clients across industries in India and abroad. He is primarily responsible for leading engagements on lnternalAudit, Internal Finance controls (IFC), Enterprise Risk Framework, Governance Risk and Compliance, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Information systems audit, Fraud detection and Forensic services. He believes in adding value to the clients, innovating methodologies and enhancing the overall capability of the team.

Rajashree Rastogi Senior Associate Aarna Law

Rajashree Rastogi is a Senior Associate at Aarna Law, law firm based in Bangalore with ofices also in Delhi. She read law at the Government Law College, Mumbai and enrolled as an Advocate in 1999. Rajashree was a partner with a Bombay law firm and later relocated to Bangalore. Rajashree has has appeared before several High Courts and the Supreme Court and domestic arbitral tribunals. Her practice area include litigation, dispute resolution, company law, constitutional law, intellectual property, real estate and technology law amongst others. Rajashree has contributed to publications such as Getting the Deal Through. She has been named in the Legal 500 journal.

Shri K.S.N ChikkerurAdditional Director of Police (Retd)

Suprabhat N M Managing Director & National Leader-Forensic ServicesProtiviti India

Suprabhat is a Managing Director & National Leader-Forensic Services at Protiviti India. He is based at Mumbai and has over 20 years of professional experience across Technology, Data Analytics and Forensic Investigations and has worked with a vast array of clients in India, Middle East and South East Asia; predominantly in the banking and financial services sector. Suprabhat has led several forensic assignments providing services related to Anti Money Laundering (AML) Investigation, Forensic Accounting & Review, Corporate Fraud Investigation, Development of Fraud Risk Mitigation (FRM) Framework, Forensic Image Analysis (document & email reviews) and Anti-Bribery & Corruption Training.

Anup Vijay Kulkarni ConsultantJ Sagar & Associates

Anup Advises on areas relating to Corporate Secretarial & Compliance under various applicable corporate laws including Foreign Exchange Regulations; Foreign Direct Investment; setting up of subsidiaries of Foreign companies / Special Purpose Vehicles , in India; in-bound and out-bound investments; setting up of liaison offices in India of Foreign companies; and, statutory registrations under various laws, regulatory compliances under RBI and SEBI. He has undertaken Audits such as legal due diligence, due diligence audits as per RBI Guidelines, CDSL & NSDL Audits, Concurrent Audits of Depository Participants, Secretarial Audits and FEMA Audits. He has had the Professional experience of convening and conducting meetings of Directors & Shareholders; and has had direct interaction with various government and statutory authorities at all levels including local offices of RBI. Anup is an Associate and a Faculty member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), Bangalore Chapter. . He also acts as a Speaker in various training programs organized by ICSI

Payal R AgarwalDirectorDeloitte

David GeorgeManagerDeloitte

Manoj Khanna Partner-Forensic ServicesKPMG India

Manoj is a Partner and leads the Forensic practice in South of India at KPMG. He is Chartered Accountant and has over 20 years of work experience across diverse sectors. Manoj has extensive experience assisting clients prevent, detect and respond to incidences of fraud and misconduct issues. Manoj has conducted a wide variety of forensic engagements in India and overseas on matters involving bribery and corruption (FCPA & UK Bribery Act), financial statement frauds, diversion and siphoning of funds and embezzlement and asset misappropriation etc. Manoj has conducted some of the most high profile forensic engagements in India, some of which have been covered extensively in the press. Manoj has also advised a number of companies on their compliance and fraud risk programs.

Amit RoyAssociate Director PWC

Amit is an Associate Director and is a part of Forensic Practice based out of Bangalore. He has over 10 years of experience in audit and investigations, while working in diverse sectors such as IT and ITES, consumer and industrial markets. He specialises in investigation assignments including internal investigations, forensic accounting inves-tigations, FCPA investigations. He has also assisted several clients in conducting fraud risk assessment of their key processes. He was part of the teams that has conducted various investigations into allegations of corruption and personnel profiteering by senior management of leading MNCs. He has conducted several fraud risk assessment as well as FCPA due diligence for companies across different industry sectors and obtained a diversified understanding of the fraud risk profile specific to various sectors.