Mother’s Day tea to benefit charity

The Mother’s Day Tea and Silent Auction will be Saturday at Fifi’s Restaurant, Ninth and Iowa streets. There are two seatings scheduled, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., with a silent auction at both. The event is sponsored by Women’s Transitional Care Services. Tickets are $30.

Each seating and auction will last for an hour and a half. The tea will consist of snacks ranging from fruit to rich desserts and Fifi’s tea. Items in the silent auction include floral arrangements, plants, gift certificates, a paint kit, membership to health clubs, wine, Lawrence coloring books, portrait necklaces, garden step stones, a television, quilts, artwork and more.

WTCS will use the funds to continue to provide emergency shelter to women and children, a 24-hour crisis line, advocacy on behalf of the women and children receiving services, community support groups, speakers for community education and its volunteer training program.

Fraud researchers gather for conference

Top researchers and workers in financial statement fraud will gather Friday and Saturday at a Kansas University conference.

The conference, organized by the KU School of Business, includes discussions on auditors’ detection of fraudulent financial statements, challenging in implementing new fraud standards, new auditing tools and changing auditors.

“In light of recent events and harsh criticism leveled at the public accounting profession, this is a particularly timely topic,” said James Heintz, director of the department of accounting and information systems at KU.

The biannual conference, the Deloitte and Touche/University of Kansas Symposium on Auditing Problems, has been held every other year since 1972.