The Controllers Role in Data Analytics and Big Data
June 10, 2025
Webinar
1.5 CPE
Instructor
Lynn Fountain
The Controllers Role in Data Analytics and Big Data
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Instructor
Lynn
Fountain
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Lynn Fountain
Bio
Lynn Fountain, CGMA, CRMA, MBA
Overland Park, Kansas
Lynn Fountain has over 35 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance and she has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. She currently is engaged in her own consulting and training practice and has trained internationally. Ms. Fountain is a discussion leader for the AICPA for numerous classes as well as conducting her own various training courses. Topics include fraud and forensic courses for both profit and not-for profit, internal controls for large and small entities, COSO 2013, ethics, and risk management and various leadership courses.
Ms. Fountain is the author of three separate technical books released in 2015. The first book entitled “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation and released in April 2015. She will be a featured presenter at the Institute of Internal Auditors International convention in July 2016 conducting a half-day training on her book, “Raise The Red Flag”. Her second book “Leading The Internal Audit Function” was released in October 2015 by Taylor & Francis Publications. This book serves as the initial launch for a series of leading practice internal audit and information technology publications. In addition, her third book “Ethics and the Internal Auditor’s Dilemma” was released winter of 2016.
Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CGMA, CRMA credentials and CPA certificate.
www.lynnfountain.net
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Today’s economy and all of the digital enhancements have impacted the way companies engage with their customers as well as how the company manages their internal practices. The business control function needs to keep pace. The rising importance of analytical capability is critical when defining the role of the modern controller. Execution of analytics can vary but there are still key questions that must be asked. What are the options and what we need to understand to decide the best way forward? This course focuses on the value that can be brought by the Controller when becoming involved with data analytics powered by technology and also Big Data. The digitized world we live in has made it important for the Controller function to evolve and take on this advanced task.
Learning Objectives
Explore the Controller’s increasing role in data analytics
Discover and examine the surge in Big Data
Explore and evaluate the process of Big Data Analytics
Examine the benefits and challenges of Big Data Analytics
Identify sources of Big Data Technology
Explore examples of big data use for analysis
Recognize and review the overall impact of Big Data
Identify actions the Controller can take to accelerate data analysis