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Cynthia Cooper (accountant)
American Author, Speaker, Consultant
For the basketball player of the same name, see Cynthia Cooper-Dyke.
Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant who formerly served as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. In 2002, Cooper and her team of auditors worked together in secret and often at night to investigate and unearth $3.8 billion in fraud at WorldCom[1] which, at that time, was the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history.
Cooper was named one of three "People of the Year" by Time magazine in 2002.
Education
Cooper earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Mississippi State University and a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Alabama. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).[2]
Career
Cooper worked for the Atlanta offices of public accounting firms Biography of mahatma gandhi!