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Richard B. Lanza (CPA, CFE) President of CRP, LLC, helps
companies identify their hidden financial assets, mostly using
technology and referring them to specialists. He has close to
two decades of experience in audit technology and recovery
auditing, becoming a leading authority in these areas. His free
website, www.findmillions.net, helps companies to identify cost
recovery and prospective savings in all areas of their business.
Prior to his current position, he
added value to Toys "R" Us by improving the efficiency,
effectiveness, and cash flow of the accounts payable function.
Rich also assisted in the planning and execution of the
Sarbanes-Oxley project. Prior to Toys "R" Us, he headed the
Program Management Office, reporting to the Chief Operating
Officer at the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, where he sewed a culture of project management into
the fabric of the organization. On his last major project, Rich
worked to coordinate various fraud-reduction initiatives to
maximize their benefit for the AICPA and financial markets. His
efforts were acknowledged in the recent audit standard, SAS99
"Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit". Prior
to joining the AICPA, Rich served as a Vice President-Audit
Technology at AuditWatch where he was an ACL and IDEA trainer.
He has also been an Internal Audit Manager for Lafarge and
Disclosure and has served in the audit department at KPMG Peat
Marwick. Rich received his undergraduate degree in public
accounting from Pace University. He is a certified member of
both the AICPA and ACFE.
He is the author of 13 publications
and training courses in audit software and has over 75 articles
for major audit and accounting publications. These written
materials include Proactively Detecting Fraud Using Computer
Assisted Audit Reports that he wrote as a research project
for the Institute of Internal Auditors. This work led to him
receiving the Outstanding Achievement in Business award from the
Associated of Certified Fraud Examiners. He also just finished
a practical publication of the cash recovery industry for John
Wiley entitled Cost Recovery: Turning Your Accounts Payable
Department into a Profit Center. Rich was also recently a
key contributor to the IIA’s Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG)
Fraud in an Automated World and ISACA's Data Analytics -
A Practical Approach research whitepapers.
Rich has worked for companies
ranging in size of $30 million to $30 billion and in all, has
helped them save money through the use of technology and
recovery auditing.
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