Southeastern business ethics lecture to feature forensic accounting specialist
Monday, March 27, 2017 
by: Rene Abadie
HAMMOND – Recognized forensic accounting expert Kelly Richmond Pope will be the featured
speaker at Southeastern Louisiana University’s annual ethics lecture sponsored by
the College of Business.
The lecture, titled Ethics Town Hall, will be held Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m.
in the Student Union Ballroom. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Pope is the creator and executive producer of the award-winning documentary “Crossing
the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crime,” an educational white-collar
crime documentary. She has conducted forensic accounting seminars worldwide for universities,
corporations, and governmental entities, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission.
A certified public account, she is an associate professor in the School of Accountancy
and Management Information Systems at DePaul University in Chicago and worked in forensic
practice at the accounting firm KPMG on anti-money laundering engagements, insurance
fraud investigations and fraud risk management projects.
Pope is also the founder of Helios Digital Learning, an education media and training
firm that specializes in helping students and professionals strengthen their ethical
decision-making abilities. Her latest documentary, “All the Queen’s Horses,” chronicles
the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history and was selected to participate in the
Tribeca Film Institute Industry Market forum in 2016.
A writer for Forbes.com and the “Washington Post,” Pope’s research has been published
in the “Journal of Business Ethics,” “CPA Journal”, and “WebCPA.” She co-authored
the book “A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics: Using Psychology to Prevent, Detect and
Deter Fraud.” She holds a doctorate in accounting from Virginia Tech University.
