Brian Ballou, Ph.D., CPA, has actively taught, researched, and
worked with executives in enterprise risk management and reporting in varying
capacities since 1999. His graduate-level enterprise risk management and
reporting course is one of the only courses of its kind in the United States and is taught utilizing a corporate governance perspective. He has
conducted executive education courses on enterprise risk management and reporting
since 2001. He also has taught, researched, and worked with executives in
governance-oriented, business risk based auditing approaches since 1998,
including extensive seminars conducted for KPMG throughout the United States each summer since 1999, an upcoming textbook utilizing a global enterprise
risk management approach to auditing, and membership on the AICPA Risk
Assessment Task Force. He also has taught and published articles relating
to fraud investigation and forensic accounting. His articles and
instructional cases in the area have been published in academic and
practitioner journals. Dr. Ballou has received grants related to risk
management from the Economic Development Administration. balloubj@muohio.edu
Dan L. Heitger, Ph.D., has actively taught, researched, and
worked with executives in enterprise risk management and reporting in varying
capacities since 1999. His undergraduate and graduate level accounting
courses emphasize performance measurement modeling and corporate sustainability
reporting as a means for addressing accountability concerns for key decision
makers and stakeholders of an organization. He co-founded Indiana
Executive Systems, an organization that provides executive education across a
variety of business topics for large international organizations. Through
his company, Dr. Heitger has taught executives from over 20 different countries
on a variety of topics related to governance, risk management and reporting, as
well as on fraud investigation and forensic accounting. His articles and
instructional cases in the area have been published in academic and
practitioner journals. Dr. Heitger has received grants related to risk
management and reporting from the Bureau of National Affairs. heitgedl@muohio.edu
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