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Spear-Phishing fraud: are you protecting your business from internet attacks?

Menzies

Gavin Cunningham – Forensics Partner The fastest growing fraud risk for business today is remote attack. Usually carried out through your email and internet accessible accounting systems, fraudsters have discovered how to infiltrate systems, intercept key data and manipulate it to get you to transfer sums direct to their bank accounts.

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New Approaches to Audits Gain Ground

CPA Practice

With new solutions like Verified Financial Intelligence (VFI) platforms, firms can digitize information on bank and brokerage statements, check images, and monetary transfers, eliminating the need to undertake painstaking manual work while removing the risk-taking involved in manually verifying accounting transactions.

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Sources of Information for Fraud Investigations

FraudFiles

The best forensic accountants and fraud investigators are able to find additional sources of information to help crack the case. In cases in which a company’s accounting records have been compromised, these source documents are instrumental in reconstructing the finances.

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Working With an Expert Witness

FraudFiles

However, the expert must be much more than just a mathematician, market analyst, economic guru or forensic accountant. Traditional accounting and finance skills are not enough when it comes to litigation. A competent expert witness is vital to cases involving economic damages and other financial calculations.

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How to Manage Your Expenses Effectively

Snyder

Also keep in mind that there are many different kinds of accountants: general practice accountants can handle your taxes; tax advisors can handle things like international taxation; forensic accountants specialize in fraud detection; management advisory firms help companies improve their overall financial performance and so on.

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Dealership Fraud: Post-COVID Risks, Detection and Response

Withum

When these factors are coupled with the poor segregation of duties found in many dealerships’ accounting departments, there is significant vulnerability to fraud; and, Internal controls at dealerships are generally antiquated, not assessed on a consistent basis, and often not followed consistently.

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Testifying in Court as an Expert Witness

FraudFiles

I could refer to myself as a fraud examiner, forensic accountant, or an investigator. This could be a check used in a theft, a report from the accounting system that shows key figures, or a detailed schedule showing the way a particular number was calculated.