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Professor of Accounting, Dr. Alan Lord, is spending his spring in Romania as a Fulbright Scholar. He is teaching research techniques to doctoral students and international financial accounting issues to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Lord is an expert on the global model curriculum for information systems auditing and control, so he is assisting Romania’s largest business school, the Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest, in adopting the curriculum model there.

Over the next few months, Dr. Lord will be sharing some of his experiences from Romania and they will be presented in journal form.

May 18 - Fulbright Scholar Sees Sights in Poland

While I have been teaching at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, I recently had an unusual Fulbright Scholar experience. My wife and I, Dr. Martha Turner of Tiffin University in Ohio (which has an MBA program affiliated with the University of Bucharest) were on a personal sightseeing visit in Warsaw, Poland. When returning to our hotel we noticed the building housing the offices of the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission Offices.

We stopped in for a visit and were warmly greeted by Andrzej Dakowski the executive director. I was able to discuss the Fulbright program with Mr. Dakowski and to share stories about my wonderful experiences in Romania. Mr. Dakowski was able to then forward his kindest wishes to all of the staff of the Romanian U.S. Fulbright Commission.

Here is a picture of me in sightseeing clothes, along with Mr. Dakowski

April 13-14 - Alan Lord Presentation at Ovidius University

I made two presentations to students and faculty members of the Faculties of Letters and Economics at Ovidius University in Constanta, Romania. A Faculty in Romania is an organization unit within a university that is roughly equivalent to a College organization within a university in the United States. A little known fact in the USA is that Constanta (or Constanta in English) is the largest port on the Black Sea and the fourth largest port in Europe (behind Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Marseilles). The city has a long history as it was originally founded by the Greeks and known as Tomis. Archaeological evidence dates the city to settlements that existed in the sixth century BC, and there is an excellent archeological museum today in Constan?a that presents relics from these times.

Pictured is Dr. Lord and Adina Ciugureanu, Dean of Letters

On Monday I met with students that were interested in graduate education in the USA and, in particular, at Bowling Green State University. I presented information about the programs in the BGSU College of Business Administration but because most of the students were from the Faculty of Letters at Ovidius, I discussed educational opportunities within other graduate programs at BGSU and, particularly, those within the College of Arts and Sciences.

On Tuesday, I presented a lecture entitled “Fraud Prevention and Detection” that is based upon a course that I developed for Master of Accountancy students at BGSU. The lecture was well received by the approximately forty students and faculty members in attendance. As a part of my Fulbright experience, I have been travelling to several universities around Romania to present this lecture and to talk about Romanian students’ educational opportunities in the United States and BGSU.

March 31 - Fulbright Scholar Presents at Romanian Educational Meeting

Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Alan Lord, Professor of Accounting at BGSU was one of two international guest speakers at the first major educational event of 2009 hosted by the Romania Chapter of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA®).

The presentation by Dr. Lord, a CPA and a CISA, was entitled, “ISACA Membership Benefits: Are you taking advantage of all the opportunities to benefit from ISACA?” Dr. Lord is currently in Bucharest as a Senior Fulbright Scholar working with the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. His presentation presented highlights of all of ISACA’s membership benefits including K-NET, COBIT, Val IT, E-Symposia, the ISACA Career Centre, Publications, and the CISA, CISM and CGEIT certifications.

Dr. Lord has been a featured speaker for ISACA chapters in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas as well as at several international ISACA conferences and meetings. He has been involved with ISACA® at the international level since 1995 and is currently a member of the Editorial Committee for ISACA’s Information Systems Control Journal.

Following Dr. Lord’s presentation Mr. Gary Bauer, Director – Forensic & Dispute Services for Deloitte Central Europe (Balkan Region), presented several important topics with regard to the prevention, detection, and investigation of fraud. His presentation focused on issues related to occupational fraud which is fraud against and employer by employees. Bauer established the Forensic & Dispute Services group at Deloitte in the Balkans (in Romania) in 2003 and, prior to that, worked in Poland for three years with Deloitte.

Bauer led investigations in 12 countries in Central and Eastern Europe in which he has deployed various types of forensic technology for data mining, imaging and interrogation. The forensic team that he leads also assists banks and other financial institutions in the implementation of fraud monitoring solutions and transaction monitoring solutions.

According to Dr. Lord, the educational meeting was very successful with a turnout of more than 90 professionals.

Pictured at the American Chamber of Commerce in Romania is executive director Anca Harasim and Dr. Lord

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