Guest Blog: Sunset Cocktail Cruise in Baltimore

Guest Blog: Sunset Cocktail Cruise in Baltimore

There is so much to see and experience in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and so little time. So, what a better way to experience all that Baltimore’s harbor has to offer then taking a cruise? The Maryland Chapter has made arrangements for attendees of the ACFE Global Fraud Conference and their guest to tour Baltimore’s Harbor with a “Sunset Cocktail Cruise” aboard Baltimore’s premier cruise ship, the Spirit of Baltimore.

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Middle Tennessee Chapter’s 19th Annual Fraud Conference

Middle Tennessee Chapter’s 19th Annual Fraud Conference

I recently attended the Middle Tennessee Chapter’s 19th Annual Fraud Conference, March 9-10 at the One Century Place Conference Center in Nashville. 

More than 250 attendees from around the state were at the event which featured presentations by ACFE Regent Tiffany Couch, CFE, CPA/CFF, former Regent Don Mullinax, CFE, CIA and ACFE faculty member Walter Manning, CFE.

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Guest Blog: Taking a Risk on a New Venue

Guest Blog: Taking a Risk on a New Venue

In early 2013, the Austin Area Chapter was using its fourth restaurant in eight years, a local fried seafood restaurant, for our lunch and full-day fraud education events. Over the years we had steadily grown from a monthly lunch attendance of about 20 members up to about 50 members per event, and occasionally we were hitting spikes of attendance of up to 70 or 80 members at a time.

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Sell-Out Crowd at Colorado Conference

Sell-Out Crowd at Colorado Conference

The Colorado Chapter presented its 2014 Annual COCFE Fall Fraud Training Conference, October 16-17 at the Arvada Center outside Denver. Chapter President Gary Schwartz, CFE, and Vice-President Ken King, CFE, worked hard to bring a diverse slate of speakers to the sell-out crowd of more than 210 attendees that included visitors from Kansas, Wyoming and New Mexico.

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