• What Does This Forensic Accountant Do?

    I spend lots of time telling people what I do in my role as a forensic accountant. Put simply, I do fraud investigations (often for the victim, but sometimes the accused hires me), divorce financial analysis, and damages calculations for […]

  • Focus on Fraud (Marquette Justice for Fraud Victims Program)

    I was delighted to be a part of the cover story for the fall issue of the Wisconsin Institute of CPAs (WICPA) magazine CPA2b. The article, Focus on Fraud, profiled the Justice for Fraud Victims Program at Marquette University. The […]

  • Blog Star

    The internet offers infinite space in which to carve out a piece of blogger stardom. INSIGHT – The Magazine of the Illinois CPA Society – November/December 2010 By Christine Bockelman When CPA and financial fraud expert Tracy Coenen started her […]

  • Former Koss Executive Pulls Off “Complex” Fraud

    Nearly a year after she was arrested, Sue Sachdeva will be sentenced for stealing $34 million from the Koss Corporation.Sachdeva, a former executive at Koss, will be sentenced in federal court Thursday.

  • Short On Ethics

    American Journalism Review By Cary Spivak Two Web sites that investigate business fraud are funded by short selling—placing market bets that the stock of companies they write about will go down. It’s an approach that makes journalism ethicists very uncomfortable. […]

  • World of Forensic Accounting Unveils How Companies Are Cheated Out of Millions

    Millions of dollars are missing from a Milwaukee company, and an employee is charged with stealing a staggering sum of money. How deep the fraud goes is something investigators are still deciphering. FOX6 gives you a look at how they […]

  • Marquette University Alumni National Awards

    College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management Entrepreneurial Award Tracy L. Coenen, Arts ’93, Grad ’96 Tracy Coenen may not know where the bodies are buried, but she knows how to follow the numbers. When it comes to […]

  • Accountants Who Focus on Fraud

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel By Rick Romell Tracy Coenen was a criminology major at Marquette University when a class on investigating financial crimes sparked her interest in forensic accounting – a field she had never heard of until then. She started […]

  • Koss Embezzlement Highest of ’09

    Rich Kirchen – Business Journal of Greater Milwaukee Sue Sachdeva clearly had gained the confidence and trust of Koss Corp.’s top management and she allegedly used that relationship to commit possibly the nation’s largest corporate embezzlement case of 2009. The […]

  • Women of Influence: Where Are They Now?

    An Update of Our Women of Influence Alumni Today the winners of the 2009 Women of Influence Awards, given by The Business Journal, were honored at an awards luncheon. Today’s publication included some past winners of the award.