Cynthia Cooper is an internal auditor and consultant who is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed massive accounting fraud at WorldCom in 2002. Internal Audit is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an organisation’s operations. ... A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or member of an organization who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power and presumed willingness to take corrective action. ... MCI logo MCI, Inc. ...

A native of Clinton, Mississippi, Cooper worked as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. After conducting a thorough investigation in secret, she informed WorldCom's board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through phony bookkeeping. At the time, this was the largest incident of accounting fraud in U.S. history. Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. ...

Cooper previously worked for the Atlanta offices of public accounting firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. She received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Mississippi State University and a Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Georgia, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). A PwC office building (Southwark Towers) in London, England. ... Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is one of the Big Four auditors. ... Mississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi in the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles northeast of Jackson and 23 miles west of Columbus. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ... Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA. In most U.S. states, only CPAs who are licensed are able to provide to the... Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) is a designation awarded by The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). ...

Cooper was named as one of three "People of the Year" by Time magazine in 2002. Person of the Year is an annual issue of U.S. newsmagazine TIME that features a profile on the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Notable Time magazine covers from the dates May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...

See also

• MCI WorldCom
• Bernard Ebbers, former WorldCom CEO
• Scott Sullivan, former WorldCom CFO

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References

• Colvin, G. "Wonder Women of Whistleblowing". Fortune (August 12, 2002).