Ralph Q. Summerford will serve as the keynote speaker for the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (FICPA) 2017 Valuation, Forensic Accounting & Litigation Services Conference on Jan. 5-7, 2017. His session is entitled “Fraud: Pathways to Deception and Diversion,” and he will discuss how fraud can be discovered and presented through examples of high profile cases. Mr. Summerford, the 2010 recipient of the Donald B. Cressey Award, was selected by the conference’s veteran planning committee to serve as the keynote speaker.

The longstanding, elite two-day conference is taking place in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and attendees will receive CPE credit. The event is designed for CPAs with an interest in business valuation, litigation services and forensic accounting. For more information on the conference, click here.