Step Up Anti-Fraud Efforts As Business Improves Everyone has goals when they first start. In the beginning, people keep track of every little item, maintain perfect records and watch their employees like they were under a microscope. In fact, that person probably could account for every paper clip. ...
Forensic Accounting – Hidden Secrets On Your Tax Return Painting A Lifestyle Picture Through The Income Tax Returns During the course of a fraud investigation, one of the most important financial documents that a forensic accountant can obtain is a tax return. These documents paint a financial...
Identity Theft Is A Growing Problem California attorney Mari J. Frank vividly remembers the telephone call she received that turned her life upside down. Thieves gather private information about an individual and create “an evil twin”. Some pose as telemarketers and solicit information b...
Investigating Money Laundering Schemes Audit investigators should become familiar with the various fraud schemes associated with taking illegal money and disguising it as legitimate income. According to studies conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s, Fraudsters often devise com...
Email & Phone Scams Using The IRS Name The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers to beware of several current e-mail and telephone scams that use the IRS name as a lure. The goal of the scams is to trick people into revealing personal and financial information, such as Social Security, bank ...
What To Do When You Suspect An Employee Is Stealing From The Company Few HR dilemmas are as sticky as dealing with the possibility that an employee is stealing from the company. You need to handle it with almost surgical precision to guarantee the company does not overstep its bounds and expose itse...
Defenses To Stop Inside Jobs of Employment Theft If you’re like most small businesses, your biggest security mistake is planning for threats only from the outside (customers, clients, vendors, etc.) —not from those near and dear to you (EMPLOYEES). Fraud is five times more likely to be committed...