Protiviti Offers Educational Event for Dallas Finance, Internal Audit Professionals to Provide Strategic Insight into Top Business Challenges, Best Practices

WHAT:

Protiviti (www.protiviti.com), a global consulting firm, is hosting an educational event for Dallas finance and internal audit professionals designed to help them address some of the biggest challenges that businesses face today, while earning eight accounting and auditing Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. Open to all levels and functions, Guidance through Powerful Insights is a one-day learning and networking event that will feature sessions with Protiviti experts and guest panelists from local C-suites.

Sessions will explore such topics as:

● Emerging IT trends and technologies – CIO panel
● Shared services performance improvement
● Hot boardroom issues – CAE panel
● Identifying fraud risk
● What the PCAOB's agenda means for your company
● Hot topics in financial reporting
● Secrets to your company's success in a rapidly changing environment
● Critical capabilities and professional development needs for finance professionals – CFO panel

WHEN:

Friday, Sept. 7, 2012

7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. CDT: Registration and continental breakfast

8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CDT: Sessions (lunch will be provided) 

WHERE:

Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center

5410 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway
Dallas, TX 75244

WHO:

Speakers and sessions will include:

● Susan Haseley, managing director, Protiviti, moderates Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Panel Discussion: Hot Topics from the Boardroom

● Dan Reyero, managing director, Protiviti, moderates Chief Information Officer (CIO) Panel* Discussion: Emerging IT Trends and Technologies 
* Panelists will include Mark Stone, senior VP and CIO, Safety-Kleen (petroleum services); Ed Marx, CIO, THR (healthcare); Darrin Whitney, senior VP and CIO, Genband (telecommunication manufacturing); and Bill Owens, CIO, Union Drilling (energy)

● Ryan Senter, managing director, Protiviti, moderates Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Panel Discussion: Finance Capabilities and Needs

● Jay Thompson, managing director, Protiviti, presents Secrets of a Successful Company in a Rapidly Changing Environment

● Bob Hirth, member of PCAOB Standing Advisory Group and managing director, Protiviti, presents The PCAOB Agenda for 2012 and Beyond: What It Means for Your Company

● Pam Verick, director, Protiviti, presents Fraud Audits: Identifying Indicators of Fraud Risk

● Ryan Senter, managing director, Protiviti, presents Shared Services Performance Improvement: Taking Your Organization to the Next Level of Efficiency and Effectiveness

● Russ Collins, managing director, Protiviti, presents Hot Topics in Financial Reporting

HOW:

Registration fee is $95 per person; register four participants and the fifth person can attend for no charge. To register for this event, please visit: www.protiviti.com/events.