Category: Internal Audit

  • Tuesday October 9 2018   This Thursday at 4 00 PM in STEM 1473 A we will have a presentation from San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors. TimHieger CPA HEB Wendy Hetzel CIA Frost Bank Cecilia Vasquez CPA SAWS https://chapters.theiia.org/san-antonio https://na.theiia.org/Pages/IIAHome.aspx  

  • Weekend Sept  2 , 2018 Alicia Padilla admitted embezzling $291,000 from Centro SA last Janiuary. Amazingly she has yet to be arrested and charged. Centro is a city created entity to improve specific parts of down town. A former deputy city manager was in charge. Please read the article. We study fraud cases in ACCT…

  • Tuesday August 28, 2018 Student should consider registering and attending these monthly meetings. https://chapters.theiia.org/san-antonio/Events/Pages/default.aspx The cost is $10 for students. Hiring & Compensation Trends Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 11:45 am – 1:00 pm Old San Francisco (10223 Sahara St., San Antonio, TX 78216) Learning Objectives: This one hour course is designed to provide insight into…

  • I have been alerted to an internal audit intern position at Rackspace. Amazingly this starts in May and runs through December.There are two positions. Please let me know IN PERSON if you are interested.        

  • Weekend January  8, 2016 Total Costs of the Penn State Abuse Scandal are now about $250 Million. We study ethics in Acct 5308 this spring, And internal audit as well as internal control procedures are discussed throughout intermediate accounting.   Penn State has of course, a an Internal Audit Dept. I doubt this potential risk…

  • Tuesday Sept 27, 2016 Jennifer Dirks comments on her experience as a new student member of San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors I wanted to take a minute out of my schedule to briefly write about my experience at the Institute of Internal Auditors’ San Antonio Chapter meeting last week. I was not sure what…

  • Thursday Sept 22, 2016 Three TAMUSA students officially joined the IIA and attended Wednesday Sept 21 CPE presentation of Words Don't Lie bu People Do, Interview Essentials Through Linguistic Lie Detection. National expert Nejolla Korris made a day long presentation on how to detect lies using analytic techniques. Did the person refer to my Wife…

  • Sept 7. 2016 I can't think of a better place to start than learning all about health care, Medicare, Medicaid. Arecent GAO audit found 50 dead people who recovered $9.8 M after they died. Large programs like this are a treasure trove for fraudsters. The programs are so large that the fraudster knows there is…

  • Monday Aug 22 2016 On Wed Sept 21 form  8 30 AM to 5 00 PM the SA Institute of Internal Auditors will sponsor hta day long seminar on Linguistic /Lie Detection. It will be held at the La Quinta at 4431 Horizon Hill Blvd. This is actually on I 10 just north of 410…

  • Wednesday August 3, 2016 Yes it costs $55. With that out of the way, why should you consider attending. It is a great program all about fraud and lie detection. It will be the chance to take your business card of introduction and network with IA professionals all during the breaks between speakers. Remember in…