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Defending IRS Cash Based Audits – Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Case for Using a Forensic Accountant

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Why a Forensic Accountant? Using a forensic account is essential in developing a strategy to handle and defend the findings of a cash-based audit. However, before delving into how they can assist counsel and the client, it’s essential to define what a forensic accountant is.

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What Auditors Do

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However, my role is not just to teach the material but to excite them about accounting as a profession and auditing in particular and share my pride in the vital role auditors play in our ecosystem. In its simplest form, auditors provide an opinion on an organization’s financial statements. Ethics is not a buzzword.

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Unmasking Fraud: How Forensic Accounting Protects the Hospitality Industry

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As a result, forensic investigations play a pivotal role in uncovering fraudulent schemes and identifying potential perpetrators, and, by way of collaborating with our internal control assessment team, suggesting preventive measures to mitigate risks. Forensic accountants are brought in to investigate issues in various facets.

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Defending IRS Cash-Based Audits – Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Computing Income

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As discussed in our previous article, The Case for Using a Forensic Accountant , confronting the prospects of a cash-based audit is fraught with potential traps and exposure to civil and criminal penalties, including incarceration. This makes the forensic accountant part of the defense team. Cash has a destination.

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Fraud Investigation for Small Firms

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The growth in forensic accounting and fraud investigation specialties has led accounting firms of all sizes to expand their practices to these areas. Is it as easy as it sounds to add forensic accounting to your firm’s competencies? It is a simple decision to start providing accounting services.

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Reconstructing Books and Records For a Tax Audit

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These are some of the most dreaded words an individual or business will ever hear from a state or federal tax auditor. Most of all, they create a need for documentation. That means documentation must be produced to support the amount of each expense and the business purpose of the item. Digging Up the Documents.

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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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The hallmark of a great auditor is not just understanding debits and credits, but understanding how the client makes money and the economics and the cash flows,” added Maginnis. “A Young people today have the opportunity to marry a personal passion with the type of organization that needs accounting services,” said Maginnis. “It