The steps to take when an employee comes forward with a fraud tip, whether the allegations are false or not. By Tracy Coenen, Contributor to CFO.com You think your company has a robust compliance program to prevent financial-statement fraud, asset […]
Recently I wrote about an internal investigation I did for a company which received a whistleblower complaint, sent to executives, the board of directors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Upon receiving notification that allegations of fraud were being made […]
The steps to take when an employee compes forward with a fraud tip, whether the allegations are false or not. Tracy L. Coenen – CFO Magazine You think your company has a robust compliance program to prevent financial-statement fraud, asset […]
In July, critics attacked Groupon (GRPN) and it use of a made-up accounting measure management called Adjusted CSOI. I suggested that the company made up the measure to exclude many of the company’s expenses to make the company look more […]
I was recently quoted in CFO Magazine for an article on creating an ethical culture within companies. Below are a few excerpts, including my comments. In December, the federal government cited a “lax corporate control environment” at Alcatel, which extended […]
As the United States goes back to normal, following our remembrance of September 11, 2001, one of the most offensive bits of “normal” continues at airports. We, the citizens of the United States, allow the Transportation Security Administration to shame, […]
The path from Marquette undergraduate to forensic accounting expert was an unexpected one for Tracy Coenen. But she hadn’t counted on a chance semester of Financial Criminal Investigations and the impression left by her professor, a former IRS special agent. […]
Doris Hajewski – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A year and a half after the embezzlement of $34 million from Koss Corp. was discovered, former accounting employee Julie Mulvaney is negotiating with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle the regulatory agency’s […]
It’s hard to believe that our elected officials and the people they appoint to important jobs can be this stupid. But it’s true. They are. Recently, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated in a interview on MSNBC that food stamps and […]
The big buzz this week is an article in Rolling Stone regarding the SEC’s policy of destroying documents related to Matters Under Investigation (MUIs) which do not result in any agency action being taken. At first blush, it may appear […]
