About Lynn Fountain

Lynn Fountain, CPA, CGMA, CRMA, MBA has over 40 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance.

Ms. Fountain has held two Chief Audit Executive positions for international companies. She was a member of the senior leadership team for Aquila Inc. in Kansas City, MO, until the sale of the utility in 2008. Between 2008-2011 Ms. Fountain successfully executed her own consulting and training business. In 2011, she was the Chief Audit Executive for an international construction and engineering firm in Kansas City. In this role she was involved in the active investigation of a joint venture fraud. The investigation included work with the FBI and ultimately led to indictment of the perpetrators and recovery of $13M.

In 2012, Ms. Fountain returned to her consulting and training business. Along with her risk management, internal controls and financial accounting consulting work, she delivers training for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Institute of Internal Auditors, Illumeo.com and multiple seminar and training groups.

Ms. Fountain is the author of two separate technical books released in 2015, The first entitled “Raise the Red Flag – The Internal Auditors Guide to Fraud Evaluations” was published by the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation and released in April 2015. Her second book “Leading the Internal Audit Function” was released in October 2015. This book serves as the initial launch for a series of leading practice internal audit and information technology publications. Her third book entitled “Ethics and the Internal Auditor’s Dilemma” was released late 2016. In addition, Ms. Fountain was the author of 11 chapters for the National Association of Accountants certified exam. She is a frequent blogger on the LinkedIn platform and has also had numerous articles published in professional and technical publications.

She has performed as an adjunct instructor for the School of Business for Grantham University and developed the first internal audit curriculum for the School of Business at the University of Kansas. Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials.