Each of you will make one PowerPoint presentation on one of the topics listed below. There is a maximum of two presentations per day. Topics and dates are assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis. Send me an e-mail to confirm the date and topic.

Your presentation should be at least 7 minutes long and no longer than 10 minutes.

Your grade is based 40% on the technical content of your presentation and 40% on the style of your presentation. Another 10% credit is given for submitting a draft of the file for early review. Full credit will be given for the final 10% if you have your file e-mailed to me by the assigned time.

• Technical Content -
• Did your talk cover the major issues related to the topic?
• Did you stay focused and avoid going into unrelated discussions?
• Begin with an introduction that summarizes major points.
• Conclude with a brief summary or other comment.
• Style -
• Voice is loud and clear.
• Eye contact with audience. Do not stare at screen.
• Avoid reading the entire presentation.
• Move away from podium.
• Appropriate use of PowerPoint: slide color scheme and background; transition between slides; animation; clip art; avoid wordy slides.
• Stay within 7 - 10 minute range.
• Appropriate dress.
• Please see me if you have any questions about the above.

The following are topics that can be presented. Only one person per topic per class.
 
 

Topic	Taken
	2:00 pm class	3:30 pm class
IIA Manuscript Topic - List of topics Fraud, with an emphasis on Internet fraud and cons. Fraud, with an emphasis on causes of fraud. Fraud or ethics, with an emphasis on earning management Auditing Through Analytics Preventing Cyber Attacks Cyber Forensic Investigations Top Ten Dot Cons Protecting Data in laptops, PDAs and Cell Phones.
Note: other manuscripts can be on fraud related topics with a different emphasis.
From the SEC
Avoiding Internet Invest Scams	Zarr	Polston
Affinity Fraud: Investment Scams that Target Groups	Howard
Fraud
Trump Hotels - Misleading Earnings Release	Marjiya	D'Amico
Investor Better.  Guaranteed returns. More Information on this topic
Revenue Recognition - Regina Vacuum Cleaner Co.	Liekis
Phantom Inventory - Phar Mor	Marc	Luo
Irrational Ratios - ZZZZ Best	Crawford	Foote
Six Key Factors Leading to Fraud	Ball	Mollerdino
Twenty Pressures to Manage Earnings	Rzeszutko	Phillips
Top Ten Dot Cons	Sison	Halverson
Inflated Revenues - Informix Corp.	Kidd
From the producers of Phantom of the Opera: Livent
Investment Losses: Pier 1
Summarize: Fraudulent Finacial Reporting: 1987 - 1997		Regna
Internal Control
Protecting Data on Laptops, PDAs, and Cell Phones	Kirbach
Cyber Forensic Investigations	Churchill	Tegtmeir
Preventing Cyber Attacks	De Paulo	Bowers
Sept 11 Disaster Recovery   More info on this topic	Cashdollar
Fraud Assessment Interviews. Here is another resource.	Hofreiter
Misc
Accounting in 2015	Foster
Assessing the Reliability of Information Obtained Through the Internet	Vojack
Give a review of this website: www.futurecpa.org	Behrns	Adamczyk
SEC Fair Disclosure Regulation	Ford

Here are the dates for presentations. Two person maximum per class per day.
 
 

Date	2:00 pm class	3:30 pm class
Feb 11	1. 2.	1. 2.
Feb 18	1. 2.	1. 2.
Feb 25	1. 2.	1. 2.
Mar 4	1. 2.	1. Mollerdino 2.
Mar 6	1. Kirbach 2. Hofreiter	1. 2.
Mar 11	1. Rzeszutko 2.	1.  2.
Apr 1	1. Sison 2. De Paulo	1. Phillips 2.
Apr 3	1. Churchill 2. Marc	1. 2.
Apr 8	1. Behrns 2. Crawford	1. Halverson 2.
Apr 10	1. Foster 2. Marjiya	1. Bowers 2.
Apr 15	1. Howard 2. Vojack	1. Luo 2. Adamczyk
Apr 22	1. Ball 2. Cashdollar	1. Regna 2. Tegtmeier
Apr 24	1. Zarr 2. Ford	1. Foote 2.
Apr 29	1. Kidd 2.	1. Polston 2. D'Amico
May 1	1. 2.	1. Qaiser 2.