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I help organizations identify and understand fraud.
KELLY RICHMOND POPE
AUTHOR, EDUCATION INNOVATOR & FORENSIC ACCOUNTING EXPERT
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My passions are fraud, film and life-long learning.
I am a Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University in Chicago where I teach forensic accounting, managerial accounting, financial accounting and ethical leadership. When I am not in the classroom, I am engaged in fraud and white-collar crime research. I love film and always dreamed of having the ability to merge accounting with filmmaking and so I did.
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Author of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion Fraud Industry (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2023)
International corporate speaker.
Professor of Accounting at DePaul University
Using storytelling for better teaching and education.
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