Budgeting is one of the most critical control mechanisms in the entire organization. Unfortunately, within this area, there is a significant amount of gaming and manipulation that can easily mislead not only the executives and the board but everybody in the organization.
In addition, it can have significant impacts on the strategic planning and execution of the organization. That is a concern that cannot be ignored. Risk assessment and understanding of the audit concerns is imperative.
Learning Objectives:
Mr. Duckert is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Enterprise Risk Management and data-analytics based approaches to auditing and risk assessment.
He is the author of "Data-Centric ERM: Common Sense That Isn't Very Common”. He possesses 9 professional certifications and is the sole developer and owner of a data-centric proprietary approach to risk assessment and management. These methodologies are applied to ERM and to enterprise risk methodologies for Internal Auditing in organizations of all sizes
Mr. Duckert was educated at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and obtained an MBA in Accounting in 1989, a BBA in Accounting in 1978, and a BA in Economics in 1971. He is in demand to speak frequently at national and international conferences.
The company he founded, Virtual Governance Institute, along with his co-founder, is the creator of THE three professional certifications for audit and risk professionals in the field of data analytics. They are CERMDA (Certified in Enterprise Risk Management Data Analytics), CCARDA (Certified in Continual / Continuous Audit & Risk Data Analytics), and CFADA (Certified in Fraud Auditing & Data Analytics).