Welcome to the IIA of Fort Worth Chapter
The Institute of Internal Auditors of Fort Worth Chapter is a professional association of internal auditors. Our Chapter meets monthly from August to May. We offer local training, education, and networking via our meetings and events. Please join us for a great lunch, networking opportunities and CPEs. Most meetings are held at the City Club of Fort Worth.
What's Happening at our Chapter?
Our September meeting is a breakfast meeting and will take place on Wednesday, September 18th, with Steve Geophert presenting on Value Added Auditing:
“Value Added Auditing”
Steve Goepfert, CIA, CPA (inactive), QIAL, CRMA Retired Vice President - Internal Audit (CAE), United Airlines
The challenge for Internal Audit to be “value-added” is integral to the success of the function in today’s world. In this session you will learn some of the innovative approaches United Airlines implemented to create and add value to its organization’s bottom-line. Mr. Goepfert will take you on a guided tour of the best practices used by their IA Department to add value and provide top-notch assurance services. This address will highlight specific audit tools and techniques to add value including:
Third-party vendor audits
Employee benefits exams
Construction audits
Officer compensation and expense reviews
Recruiting and retaining the best staff
Using QARs to assess value-added practices
Steve was the Vice President - Internal Audit (Chief Auditor) for United Airlines in Chicago, Illinois until his retirement in October 2013. He assumed the role after the merger of United and Continental in October 2010. He had previously been Chief Auditor at Continental Airlines for 21 years.
He was the 2006-2007 Chairman of the Board for the Institute of Internal Auditors, Inc. (IIA). Steve served on the IIA’s Executive Committee for 6 years (2003-09) and on the global IIA Board for 7 years. He is a past President of the Houston Chapter (1999-2000) and served on its Board for 17 years. Steve also served the global IIA as Chairman of the Professional Certifications Board (PCB) for 4 years (2012-16). In 2012, Steve was inducted into the inaugural class of the IIA’s American Hall of Distinguished Audit Practitioners. He was recognized in 2013 with the Victor Brink award for distinguished service to the IIA.
Steve has held industry audit posts including Chairman of the International Association of Airline Internal Auditors (IAAIA) in 1996 and Chairman of the Air Transport Association of America (ATA) Audit Panel in 2003.
Steve is a member of the Southern Illinois University (SIU) Foundation Board of Directors (2014-present) and joined its Executive Committee and became Chairman of the Finance Committee (oversight for Audit, Budget and ERM) in 2017.
A CIA, CPA (inactive) and CRMA, he started his career with the Big 8 firm of Coopers & Lybrand, where he worked for over 5 years. Steve graduated with highest honors from SIU in 1975 and was selected as the Outstanding Senior in the College of Business. He was inducted into the SIU College of Business Hall of Fame in 2010.
Please follow this link to register.
In October, we have a full day of Fraud training with Scott Langlinais on Friday, October 18th.
And as described in our newletter: the Chapter is offering a 4 hour Ethics seminar on November 13th.
Also, the Dallas Chapter’s Super Conference is taking place this year on Monday, October 28th :
8th Annual Super Conference
October 28, 2019
8am-5pm
Renaissance Dallas Hotel
The Chapter offers neighboring Chapters member pricing ($300) to any individual members in the district that would like to attend their upcoming Super Conference using discount code districtsc19. Group pricing of $250 for 4 or more attendees from the same company will also apply. The Super Conference is a great opportunity to obtain 8 CPE across a variety of topics!
INTERFACE Dallas is coming to Irving on September 11th, 2019, and it is a free of charge conference for IT professional, focusing on the latest developments in this constantly changing information technology environment
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INTERFACE is open for all IT end-users and they like a crowd!
September 11th, 2019
8:30am – 4:30pm
Grand Ballroom
500 W. Las Colinas Blvd.
Irving, TX 75039
Mission
Serve the members through quality continuing professional education and a venue to network with peers.
Serve the Profession by promoting the profession through activities such as Certification, Academic Relations, Research and others.
The Fort Worth Chapter has done it again: another year of Chapter Excellence and another year of Gold Charter!
