• Tracy Coenen on Finance Friday for the FOX5 morning show in Washington D.C., talking about red flags of financial fraud in marriage and her book, Find Me The Money.

  • While consumers generally hate income tax returns because of their complexity, they can be invaluable sources of information in divorce proceedings. Not only do they provide insight into prior years’ earnings, they can also point to assets and sources of […]

  • In this short video, Tracy talks about some of the services a forensic accountant could provide in a bankruptcy case. These services could include: Tracing of funds through bank accounts Looking for hidden income and assets Evaluating expenditures to determine […]

  • When a spouse knows that divorce is in his or her future, there are obvious steps to be taken. Securing a competent divorce attorney is one, and thinking about the division of assets and income is another. Yet when it […]

  • If you haven’t heard by now, internal fraud is expensive, costing companies an average of 5% of revenues each year. Employees are in an excellent position to steal the company blind. Particularly for those in upper management, access to assets […]

  • When the IRS believes a taxpayer has unreported income, they will use alternative methods to attempt to determine the true income. One of those methods is the Expenditures Method. Tracy Coenen explains the basic methodology in this video. Note that […]

  • Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert is bombarded every week by consumers who want to ask him, “What about this MLM?” You see, the marketers of multi-level marketing companies have gotten very savvy. They know that plenty of us have […]

  • Forensic accounting and fraud investigation are hot specialties in the accounting world. Experts agree that the need for fraud detection services is growing, creating opportunities for small and midsized firms that are looking to start or expand a forensic accounting […]

  • If you’re new to the world of forensic accounting (also called investigative accounting), this video will give you an idea of the types of cases a forensic accountant might work on. There is quite a variety in the work, but […]

  • >Spousal support and child support can be calculated using a number of different factors. The relative importance of the factors may be laid out in local rules, but often the factors are simply listed and defined with little other guidance.  […]