Focus on Internal Control - Is your Company Ready for the New COSO?

• Key changes between COSO 1992 and the proposed 2013 COSO draft
  • Implications for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and Section 404 and 302 attestations
• Analysis of how those changes will impact compliance efforts requirements
• Understanding the new tools and templates provided by the COSO foundation
• Benefits and challenges of the new framework
• Management's requirement for understanding COSO 2013
• Review of PCAOB December 2012 report on its review of Public Firms and their work on internal control over financial reporting
  • Implications for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Lynn Fountain, is a Kansas CPA and also holds her MBA. Ms. Fountain has over 30 years of experience in the business profession, which includes public and industry accounting, leadership, compliance, governance and internal and external auditing combined.

She is the founder of Fountain GRC Services, a consulting practice specializing in aspects of Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, Enterprise Risk Management, Fraud, Governance and Compliance. She is an experienced trainer and speaker. Part of her work with Fountain GRC Services is delivering high quality training for multiple seminar and conference groups as well as individual companies and Corporate Boards. In addition, she successfully organized and executed a successful Kansas City Risk Based Seminar in April 2010 that featured 14 high profile e-suite speakers from the Kansas City business community. In August 2011, she was named as one of the “Women to Watch for 2011” by the KSCPA and in 2012 was a nominee for the Kansas City Business Journal’s Women in Business. She obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University.