Fraud Diary - Marie Fulle and Comerica Bank
This is the story of Marie Fulle, the ex-bank manager of Comerica Bank who embezzled over $1 million from a customer over the course of one year.
Mar 17, 2022•5 min
SkyStem
SkyStem
The SkyStem Podcast is a place where we ponder topics around finance and accounting, including the people, process and technology that drive the back-office function. We explore ideas relating to process improvement, technology, corporate governance and fraud. SkyStem LLC is the maker of ART – a SaaS solution that helps CFOs and Controllers shorten the month-end close.
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Flashing Insight: 20 Years of SOX
2022 marks 20 years since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2022 was established. How do retail investors feel about it and how has compliance / audit functions fared?
Feb 23, 2022•4 min
Fraud Diary - Peter Armbruster of Roadrunner Transportation
This is the story of Peter Armbruster, the former CFO of Roadrunner Transportation, who executed a complex securities and accounting scheme that resulted in $245 million of shareholder losses.
Feb 14, 2022•5 min
Fraud Diary - Kevin McInnis of Merida Group
This is the story of Kevin McInnis, former CEO at Merida Group, who orchestrated a $150 million healthcare fraud scheme.
Jan 28, 2022•5 min
Fraud Diary - Kevin Miller and Co-Conspirators
This is the story of Kevin Miller, Eam Peng Chou, Mean Peach, Chonnathason Has and Thi Ho, who stole $2.4 million from a Maryland-based company over the course of three years.
Nov 01, 2021•4 min
Fraud Diary - Luckin Coffee
This is the story of Luckin Coffee, the Wall Street darling that was ultimately found to have falsely inflated revenues by $300 million.
Oct 19, 2021•5 min
Fraud Diary - Maryann Stoffel
This is the story of Maryann Stoffel, a 70-year old woman who misappropriated ~$650,000 from the Vermillion Township in Dakota County, Minnesota.
Sep 07, 2021•7 min
Fraud Diary - Zachary Horwitz
This is the story of Zachary Horwitz and his production company, who allegedly orchestrated a pyramid scheme that raised $690 million dollars.
Aug 10, 2021•5 min
Streamlining Month-End Reconciliations Through Automation - Stock Yards Bank & Trust
SkyStem’s Head of Sales and Support, Nancy Wu, and Stock Yards Bank & Trust's Corporate Controller, Derek Slone, explore his team's progression from a manual reconciliation process to one that is automated and modernized.
Jul 19, 2021•46 min
Fraud Diary - Suraj Samaroo
This is the story of Suraj Samaroo, who defrauded IKEA out of $400,000 by processing unauthorized customer refunds.
Jul 06, 2021•6 min
Fraud Diary - Interview with John Kurtzweil
John Kurtzweil joins the SkyStem Podcast to discuss his experience working as the Corporate Controller of MiniScribe in the late 1980's around the time a massive fraud was discovered to have been perpetrated at the company.
Jun 14, 2021•42 min
Fraud Diary - MiniScribe Corp
This is the story of MiniScribe Corp, whose employees perpetrated massive fraud in the mid to late 1980s.
May 12, 2021•9 min
Fraud Diary - Rita Crundwell (Part 2)
This is the story of Rita Crundwell, who stole $53 Million from the City of Dixon, Illinois over the course of 22 years (Part 2 of 2).
Apr 26, 2021•9 min
AFP & SkyStem - Month-End Close Automation with Linda Harris (Ichor Systems)
The Association for Finance Professionals (AFP) sits down with Nancy Wu at SkyStem and Linda Harris at Ichor Systems to discuss modernizing the month-end close process at Ichor Systems. As featured in AFP Conversations podcast.
Apr 26, 2021•30 min
Total Accountability Through Month-End Close Automation - CountryMark
Headquartered in Indianapolis, CountryMark is an agricultural cooperative firm in the crude oil and oil refinery business. Nikki Collier, Director of Accounting & Finance for CountryMark, joins us in this webinar to share her experience in automating month-end close and reconciliations to modernize the process and provide much-needed organization and accountability to the mature organization.
Mar 29, 2021•49 min
Fraud Diary: Rita Crundwell (Part 1)
This is the story of Rita Crundwell, who stole $53 Million from the City of Dixon, Illinois over the course of 22 years.
Mar 16, 2021•9 min
Fraud Diary: Tangoe & Management
Today's case involves a company called Tangoe, an IT Expense Management Company, that was accused of accounting fraud by the SEC along with four of its high ranking executives: Albert Subbloie, Gary Martino, Donald Farias and Thomas Beach.
Feb 11, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Fraud Diary: Sheila Jameson
This is the story of Sheila Jameson, who embezzled $1.8 million from Enersys over the course of 11 years.
Jan 19, 2021•8 min
A Controller's Journey into Month-End Close Automation - Aquarion
SkyStem’s Head of Sales and Support, Nancy Wu, and Aquarion’s Corporate Controller, Deb Kirven, explore the challenges facing today’s finance and accounting function. Deb and Nancy journey through Aquarion’s decision to evaluate and adopt month-end close automation while touching upon topics such as cloud solutions, change leadership and consensus building.
Nov 25, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Reduce Risk Through Month-End Close Automation - Lake Health
Established over 100 years ago, Lake Health is a leader in community health care in Northeast Ohio and the largest private employer in Lake County. Join Lisa Mothersbaugh, Director of Accounting at Lake Health, as she shares her team's journey to modernize the close and reconciliation process with the goal of improving overall work quality and reduce financial statement risk.
Nov 25, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Winning Back Time Through Month-End Close Automation - AMRG
AM Retail (Part of G-III Apparel Group) operates retail stores for Wilson Leather, G.H. Bass & Co., Calvin Klein Performance, Karl Lagerfeld Paris, and DKNY. Join Charlie Kettering, Finance Director at AM Retail, as he shares his team's vision for modernizing month-end close. Charlie and his team, over the course of one month, turned a manual reconciliation process into one that is electronic, and in the process, successfully saved two weeks of man hours per quarter.
Nov 24, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Saving Time Through Modernizing Month-End Close - Kemba Credit Union
Kemba Credit Union was established in 1934 to serve employees of the Kroger Company. Today, it has over $1 Billion in assets and offers a plethora of banking, lending, investing, financial planning and insurance solutions to its members. It aims to provide its members with the best that technology has to offer. Join Janet Oiler, Controller at Kemba Credit Union, as she shares her team's exploration into month-end close and reconciliation automation, and how modernizing this process has impacted ...
Nov 24, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 2
A Better Month-End Close - 121 Financial
At the end of every month or quarter, credit union finance professionals tackle the close process, or the preparation of the credit union’s financial statements for publication. It requires extensive research and reconciliation on the part of the finance team, and completing these tasks manually can be challenging. Nancy Wu, head of sales and customer support for SkyStem, says many credit unions experience pain points in their close processes. This is where automation tools can help to streamlin...
Nov 06, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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