It takes a team to conduct an effective corporate fraud investigation / employee theft investigation

If you are suspicious that an employee had stolen from your company, embezzled money, where do you start to try to resolve the issue?  Many managers / owners will first call their CPA or resource for accounting.  This is a great start.  Trained CPA’s who know how to find fraud can trace issues in the books and build a case of evidence that will likely lead to a suspect or suspects.  Sometimes that CPA will even be fraud certified and have the CFE designation (and there are others).

So now that you have some evidence and a suspect or suspects, does the accountant interview them?  Do you interview them?  Do you call your attorney to interview them?  Maybe one or all of the above.

To conduct the best possible corporate fraud investigation consider hiring a corporate fraud investigator who will work as a link in the chain of the investigation.  The corporate fraud investigator should have training from an organization such as John E. Reid & Associates, Inc., and carry certification to prove it.  But the training alone is really not where the effectiveness lies, it is the experience of conducting not just one corporate fraud investigation but hundreds.

The professionally trained corporate fraud investigator will conduct interviews and move on into interrogations to obtain written confessions.  This is the bow on top of the work that the CPA, management and Law team have all put together, but may not have the expertise to hit home.  A mistake in the corporate fraud investigation can mean no criminal, civil cases can be filed and there is no hope of recovering losses.

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