Forensic Accountant and Professor Kelly Richmond Pope has dedicated her career to confronting the challenges of white-collar crime. A Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University, Dr. Pope uses the most innovative and cutting edge outlets in edutainment to teach forensic accounting, managerial accounting, financial accounting, and ethical leadership. She is currently a co-host of the podcast True Crime with Kathy Lake and Kelly Pope on WGN Radio.
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Forensic Accountant and Professor Kelly Richmond Pope has dedicated her career to confronting the challenges of white-collar crime. A Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University, Dr. Pope uses the most innovative and cutting edge outlets in edutainment to teach forensic accounting, managerial accounting, financial accounting, and ethical leadership. She is currently a co-host of the podcast True Crime with Kathy Lake and Kelly Pope on WGN Radio.
A popular keynote speaker and international lecturer, Pope is a frequent adviser to firms about their compliance programs and training. She speaks regularly to regulators, including the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations, companies such as GE, Kraft Heinz, Allstate, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, and a number of trade associations, including the AICPA and the Government Finance Officers Association. Using her research in forensic accounting and white-collar crime, Pope brings up-to-date facts about how good employees rationalize bad decisions, the importance of internal whistleblowing, and the value of ethical leadership.
Her first feature-length film, All the Queen’s Horses, reveals how the largest municipal fraud perpetrator in the nation’s history embezzled upwards of $53 million. Named HBO’s “Best Documentary of the Year,” the film was featured at a number of film festivals and was a 2014 finalist for a Tribeca Film Institute grant. During its debut week, the film was the #1 documentary on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and Direct TV.
Dr. Pope’s first documentary, Crossing the Line: Ordinary People Committing Extraordinary Crimes, has won numerous national education innovation awards and is used in colleges, universities, and corporations throughout the country.
Pope is the co-founder of Rich Little Girls, Inc., an edutainment curriculum development company. Through DePaul, she co-created Red Flag Mania, an immersive learning experience for students, employees, and business owners to solve real-life cases of fraud.
With the online learning platform Course Hero, Dr. Pope offers her signature workshop on the power of edutainment, “Using an Edutainment Curriculum to Revamp Your Accounting Course.”
Her research has been published in Behavioral Research in Accounting, Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, The CPA Journal, and WebCPA. She is a co-author of The A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics: Using Psychology to Prevent, Detect and Deter Fraud. Pope is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com and has published articles in The Daily Beast, The Washington Post and PBS Need to Know.
She received her doctorate in accounting from Virginia Tech and is a licensed certified public accountant. While working in the forensic accounting practice at KPMG, LLP, Pope focused on anti-money laundering engagements, insurance fraud investigations, and fraud risk management projects.
Dr. Pope was selected by the TED Ed team to develop a teaching lesson on “How People Rationalize Fraud,” while her TED talk “How Whistle-blowers Shape History” tackles the whistleblower dilemma and the need for whistleblowers in fraud discovery.
She is a member of numerous boards, including the Economic Club of Chicago and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Dr. Pope is also a faculty advisor to DePaul National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) student chapter, and a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project.
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Topics
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: IMPROVING BUSINESS, SAVING DEMOCRACY
RATIONALIZING FRAUD: HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE COMMIT EXTRAORDINARY CRIMES
THE WHISTLEBLOWER DILEMMA: JUSTICE OR LOYALTY?
Videos
Videos
EXPLAINED: Money Laundering (Kelly Richmond Pope - Forensic Accountant)
Why do we hate whistleblowers? | Kelly Richmond Pope | TEDxDepaulUniversity
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ALL THE QUEEN'S HORSES
RED FLAG MANIA
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