ACFE SA Regional Event: Eastern Cape, 19 March 2024 (Online) | ACFESA - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners South Africa on Glue Up

ACFESA - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners South Africa

The South African Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE SA) is a recognised South African professional body, representing and governing fraud examination professionals in South Africa.

The South African Chapter represents the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which is the world's largest anti-fraud and white-collar crime organisation and premier provider of training and education in these industries. Our members are committed to reducing white-collar crime worldwide and inspiring public confidence and objectivity within the profession.

Event Details

Join us online at the ACFE SA Eastern Cape event on 19 March 2024 for a 2-hour training session dedicated to ethics! Earn 2 CPE points and expand your knowledge. Don't miss out!

Agenda

March 19, 2024

Main Schedule

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ethics – Doing the right thing even when nobody is looking!

The presentation will cover: Descriptions & Definitions of Ethics; Sources of Ethics (e.g. parents/home, school, workplace etc.); Fundamental Ethical Principles; Ethics & Corporate Governance; Ethical Threats & Dilemmas; Ethical Management Models & Approaches; Requirements & Processes for Ethics Units/Functions; and Discussion Points to Ponder On.

Dion Hucker

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Ethics vs Governance

This session will in a very practical and entertaining way demonstrate the interplay between ethics and governance. How the fraud triangle can be used to analyse human behaviours and how it could be used to develop controls that limit unethical behaviour.

Andries Louw

Speakers

Dion Hucker

Sole Proprietor at Adv. Dion Hucker Forensic and Compliance Consulting Services

Andries Louw

Chief Director Transversal Audit & Risk Mangement of EC Treasury

Adv. Dion Hucker is an admitted (non-practising) Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, a former Senior Public Prosecutor, and a Specialist Prosecutor (economic, white-collar and complex statutory crimes), with more than 13 years practical experience in criminal litigation and the administration of criminal justice. In addition to the aforementioned 13 years’ experience, Dion headed the Eastern Cape forensic and special investigations component of Grant Thornton between 2001 and 2006, prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Manager in 2006. He was promoted to Senior Manager at PwC in 2008. He left PwC in May 2018. He is currently an independent compliance and forensic consultant. He was also previously employed as the Manager: Legal, Risk and Compliance at Amatola Water between August 2019 and October 2020 on a fixed-term contract.

He has extensive experience in managing and conducting forensic and special investigations with particular emphasis on National, Provincial and Local Government institutions (public sector), and has received training provided by the Office of the Auditor-General relating to the conducting of forensic assignments during August 2003.

Dion has consulted to a variety of public and private sector clients on a number of compliance, labour and risk-management-related issues, including participation in speaking engagements and preparing articles, presentations and discussion documents.

In addition to his legal, forensic and consulting experience, Dion has also presided over, investigated, or led evidence on behalf of employers in a number of disciplinary matters in both the public and private sectors.

His areas of expertise include:
● Prosecution or investigation of economic and statutory crimes;
● Labour law and disciplinary matters;
● Public Sector Procurement (compliance, fraud, fraud/corruption prevention, PPPs & B-BBEE);
● Fraud Prevention & Anti-Corruption Risk Management;
● Training of Forensic Investigators;
● Assisting public sector institutions with PFMA/MFMA or related compliance issues;
● Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) awareness & legal compliance; and
● General legal/statutory compliance

Andries has a National Diploma in Telecommunications Technology and B.Com qualification, also have an MBA degree from the University of Stellenbosch and completed his articles in Telkom SA in 2002. In addition, he is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Associate General Accountant.

He has a career that stretches over more than 35 years, from managing the outsourcing of numerous divisions in Telkom SA, being the CFO of the Universal Services and Access Agency of South Africa, to being one of the founding employees of Neotel (Now called Liquid Telecom) as Head of Supply Chain Management. In 2012 he joined the Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury as the Head of the Transversal Supply Chain Office.

Over the last 8 years, Andries worked as the Chief Director Transversal Audit and Risk Management unit, which includes the Provincial Forensic Audit directorate.

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Event Details

Agenda

March 19, 2024

Main Schedule

Speakers

Dion Hucker

Andries Louw