Forensic Accounting Services, LLC
Piecing Together Financial Puzzles®
Economy improving? Property crimes under control. I personally don’t think so. Just in the last few days, I have determined that you can’t take your eyes off of anything, regardless of past practices. What has changed? Last week during a Boy Scouts meeting, as the meeting was underway, my son’s boy scout uniform (just back from having patches sewn on) …
Spending months of time, energy and funds investigating an employee theft and embezzlement, only to have the individual responsible receive a non-jail sentence, can be very frustrating to the victim of the crime. Often the decision to pursue criminal charges is based in part on the likelihood of whether the police will investigate it, the prosecutor will prosecute it, and …
Another day, another friend with a personal financial crisis. The latest, a friend who had unauthorized activity perpetrated through illegal access to his debit card. I received this latest request for advice and assistance from a friend through FaceBook, of all places. Turns out someone obtained his debit card information, and withdrew the funds from his checking account. He was already working with …
Lately we have been inundated with calls for new matters involving thefts and other financial matters. Just having finished writing up another embezzlement investigation, there remains one for me to document and two in progress waiting on the last pieces of information. Two more are waiting to be started. We just completed 8 to 9 cases of theft or embezzlement, …
My son’s boy scout troop did their annual door to door candy bar sales last evening, a beautiful night for walking neighborhoods as boy scouts, talking to people, picking up folks newspapers for them, and asking them if they would purchase a candy bar for one dollar to support the troop and their programs for the next year. After hours …