Forensic Accounting Services, LLC
Piecing Together Financial Puzzles®
Just when I thought I had seen close to everything, and the worse in people… I recently finished an embezzlement case, and since the individual who handled all the financial aspects of this company for the retirement-aged owners was terminated for stealing, the owners turned to a well-known temporary agency to solicit help running their business. Today I received the …
As part of a recent trade show, we purchased a number of stuffed animals, penguins to be specific, to display on our table and our booth. It was an appropriate theme, as we were sponsoring a visit from the local aquarium with their live pengins for the attendees to meet. There were two conferences that day, and several sponsor displays …
Being a fraud examiner, you can never shut things off, and as any good fraud expert knows, observation skills are one of the most important skills you can develop in the fight on fraud. The problem is fraud will find you even when you are not looking for it. Southwest Airlines – well known for their fares, no frills flights …
An article appeared today written by David Katz of CFO Magazine that features an interview he had with me regarding the state of the union on employee embezzlements. Complacency seems to have settled in within some organizations who had well designed and operational internal controls, but over time lost compliance and oversight, leading the the creation of opportunities for individuals …
Some twenty-four years ago (oh my where has the time gone) I met me wife, and a short time thereafter we met a good friend who started talking to us about the importance of life goals – things we wanted to do in your life time. He explained that individuals who have goals and actually write them down are statistically …