Speaking
Francine McKenna is an experienced speaker who can present on a variety of subjects.
Typical topics include:
- The role of the external auditor
- Careers in the accounting industry and accounting education
- Corporate governance and the Audit Committee
- Internal audit – Roles and Responsibilities
- IT Audit
- The intersection of finance/accounting and technology
Her biography can be found on the About Francine McKenna page.
Her speaking style is energetic, full of examples and anecdotes from her rich and varied career, irreverent, and no-holds-barred. Her presentations embrace diversity and multiculturalism and can include stories of her experience as a female professional in Latin America and as an expatriate. Francine customizes every presentation to address the audience at hand and can present in English or Spanish.
Francine can cover technical topics such as regulatory and legal updates in detail, as well as give a business-oriented overview of accounting topics such as IFRS, XBRL and fair value. Her audiences have included professionals in areas such as:
- Finance and accounting
- Business school professors and their students, especially accounting and MBA students
- Technology, IT audit and IT security
- Internal and external audit
- General business and investment management
- Attorneys specializing in securities litigation and class actions
She has also presented extensively on careers for finance, accounting, and audit professionals at all levels.
Email Ms. McKenna for her speaking fee information (fmckenna at mckennapartners dot com).
I was on TV February 11 talking about MF Global! My segment starts at the 13:00 minute mark.
Upcoming
June 4-6, 2012, Washington DC, Compliance Week Annual Conference. I will be moderating several panels in service to the conference organizers and covering as usual for re: The Auditors and others as appropriate.
July 8-11, 2012, covering The Institute of Internal Auditors 2012 Annual Conference, Boston Massachusetts. Covering for my site re: The Auditors.
Recent Conferences, Webcasts, Interviews and Presentations
May 18, 2012, RT Television, Capital Accounts, I’m interviewed on the accounting behind ‘Hot Tech‘, Facebook IPO, JP Morgan trading loss and MF Global by Lauren Lyster.
May 17, 2012, The Committee for Monetary Research and Education Annual Dinner. My Topic: The Mystery of MF Global: How Hot Money and Hubris Caused The Loss of $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds. Here’s the speech.
May 15-17, 2012, Savannah, GA, Presenting for third year in a row to the Georgia Southern University Fraud and Forensic Accounting Conference. My presentation: Auditors as “Whistleblowers”: The Auditors’ Responsibility to Report Fraud and Illegal Acts.
April 29-May 2, Los Angeles, CA, covered the Milken Conference. Here’s a piece about the incredible lineup of panelists and speakers.
April 4, 2012, CFA Chicago, Step Up Your Due Diligence for the New Environment with Michelle Leder of Morningstar, Inc. author of the blog Footnoted.com.
February 6, 2012, presented “Modeling Fraud: Models Behaving Nefariously”, for the Columbia University Financial Engineering Practitioners Seminar, New York, NY. Here’s the presentation.
November 15-16, 2011, James Madison University, faculty and student visit at the invitation of Professor Tim Louwers. A speech and Q&A for MS in Accounting students was informal. My speech for the Beta Alpha Psi initiation dinner is here.
October 31, 2011, University of Illinois-Chicago, informal speech and Q&A with Professor Ryan Casey’s financial accounting introductory course for MBAs.
October 17-19, 2011, North Carolina State University, faculty and student visit at the invitation of Professor Scott Showalter. My speech is here.
October 12, 2011, Social Media Breakfast Chicago entitled,”Building a Community Around Your Blog From Scratch”.
June 2 2011, Fifth Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference Savannah, Georgia. My speech, “The Skeptical Professional: Requirements and Cases.” This conference is hosted by Georgia Southern University’s Center for Forensic Studies in Accounting and Business
April 1, 2011, American Accounting Association mid-year meeting, Chicago, The Future of the Accounting Profession, and participation in a panel, Defining the Public Interest. Here’s a link to the blog post with the text of my luncheon speech.
March 11, 2011, South By Southwest Interactive, “Investigative Reporting for Bloggers”, with Mashable.com’s Josh Catone and Greg Ferenstein. Here’s a a link to our panel.
January 28, 2011, New York State Society of CPAs, Moderator of a panel, Whistleblowing Under Dodd-Frank, with panelists Sherron Watkins, the Enron Whistleblower, Marion E. Koenigs, Deputy Director, Accountant, Division of Enforcement and Investigations, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and Paul Atkins, Managing Director, Patomak Partners and former Commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
September 15, 2010, New York County Lawyers Association, panelist, “A Crisis of Our Own Design”, with Floyd Norris of the New York Times and Anton Valukas, Chairman of Jenner and Block and author of the Lehman Bankruptcy Examiner Report. Moderated by Judge Elizabeth Stong, Bankruptcy Judge Eastern District of New York.
August 4, 2010, American Accounting Association, Operating an Accounting Blog. Panel participant.
May 14, 2010, The Georgia Southern University Fourth Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Conference, The Skeptical Professional.
April 27, 2010, Video Interviews for The Deal Magazine, Lehman Hearings: Who’s auditing the auditors? and Goldman SEC charges to spark cases against others.
April 20, 2010, Video Interview, Forbes Magazine, Wall Street’s Biggest Bankruptcies – How shareholders lose when auditing firms fall short.
April 19, 2010, IIA Chicago Chapter 50th Annual Conference, Conversations Rule: Employees Drive Your Company’s Brand And Add Risk
January 3, 2010, Davos Debates, Video Entry
July 9, 2009, 2009 Mid-Year Review – Securities Litigation and Enforcement” sponsored by Securities Docket.com Panel participant
June 16, 2009, Maryland Association of CPAs Business Expo, Managing Your Career: Turning Uncertainty Into Opportunity.
Invited in June 2009 to participate in a dream panel on the topic of social media use by the accounting and audit profession at the Maryland Association of CPAs Business Expo. The panel was moderated by Bill Sullivan of the MACPAs and includedEdith Orenstein of FEI, Will Burns of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Alexandra DeFelice of the Journal of Accountancy, andRick Telberg of CPA Trendlines.
The presentation is in six parts on You Tube here, here, here, here, here and here.
May 4th, 2009, Houston IIA Chapter, Lessons From Current Crisis – What’s An Internal Auditor To Do?
April 28, 2009, Video Interview with Matt Davio at MissTrade.com
January 6. 2009, The Securities Litigation Year In Review Webcast, Securities Docket dot com. Ms. McKenna provided an update on class action and securities litigation against the audit firms. The webcast featured several of the leading bloggers in the securities litigation and SEC enforcement world — Walter Olson (Point of Law ; Overlawyered ), Kevin LaCroix (The D&O Diary ); Tom Gorman (SEC Actions ), and Bruce Carton (Securities Docket.) (This webcast will recur on July 9th, 2009 for a mid-year review and Ms. McKenna will participate again.)
December 4, 2008, Quest Session 52070, ”SAS 70 in a Post-Sarbanes SaaS World”
December 2008, DePaul University Information Systems Security Management Program, “A Multicultural Career”
May 14, 2008, The Corporate Counsel.Net, Podcast, “Big Changes Afoot In The Audit Industry” hosted by Broc Romanek.
Additional presentations can be found here.
Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. Look for my column, 