• Financial Statement Fraud Under Fire

    Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF OSCPA Wire – Oklahoma Society of CPAs Newsletter Any natural disaster creates opportunities for fraud and that’s exactly what recent wildfires have done. Dishonest executives have a chance to manipulate their financial statements […]

  • Office Piracy: A Trusted Employee Becomes a Worst Enemy

    Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF On Balance – The Magazine for Wisconsin CPAs – January/February 2006 It felt like my gut had been ripped out. Fifteen years of our lives went down the drain. He took our trust […]

  • Fraud Prevention 101

    Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF Wisconsin Law Journal Reprinted in Kansas City Daily Record and St. Louis Daily Record Fraud is an industry unto itself, causing annual losses to United States companies totaling at least $660 billion. While […]

  • Saving Money With Proactive Fraud Prevention

    Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF Family Ties – Newsletter of UW-Madison Family Business Center Cost-saving measures are often attractive to businesses. If a company with annual revenue of $10 million could eliminate a $600,000 expense, would management be […]

  • Take Steps to Extinguish Fraud

    Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF On Balance – The Magazine for Wisconsin CPAs – September/October 2005 Fire drill training in grade school always included the mantra, “Stop, drop and roll.” This was the prescribed course of action if […]