Managing Travel and Entertainment Expense
Lynn Fountain Overview:
This course provides insight into how to bring control and intelligent management to your company's T&E expenditures by bringing people, process and technology to bear along with best practices.
Why should you Attend:
Learn how to effectively manage corporate travel and entertainment expense in today’s world.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Recognize the role of technology in managing travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses
- Identify automated expense tools
- Identify methods for evaluating T&E expenses
- Discover policy thoughts on T&E expenses
- Discover safeguards for T&E expenses
Who Will Benefit:
- Professionals in the office of the CFO
- CEO/CFO
- Board Members
- Internal Auditors
- Compliance Professionals
- Operational professionals
- Finance Professionals
Speaker Profile
Lynn Fountain has over 45 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance. Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies. In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees. The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.
Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.