Author: ACFE Hawaii

At our March luncheon, we welcomed IRS Special Agent Derek Tubania, who shared examples of cases he has worked on, including techniques used to discover and investigate fraud.  He graduated from the University of Hawaii and has been an IRS Special Agent for 20 years. While he has focused mainly on income tax cases, he also shared his experiences in cases involving money laundering and structuring cases.

Our January luncheon featured Bill Kauppila, who talked about Fraud and Forensic Accounting. An adjunct professor at Chaminade University, he teaches Forensic Accounting & Fraud during the winter quarter (January to March). He spends the rest of the year in Seattle, Washington, where he teaches at Seattle Pacific University and maintains a personal consulting practice. He has been in the auditing profession since 1968.