{"id":240,"date":"2006-06-30T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=240"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:40:25","slug":"books-crooks-rooks-internal-corporate-fraud-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/books-crooks-rooks-internal-corporate-fraud-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Crooks &#038; Rooks: Internal Corporate Fraud Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I spent three days in the Atlanta area providing training for the Georgia CPA Society. One of the topics I presented was an in-depth session on internal investigations, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/speaking\/books.htm\">Books, Crooks &amp; Rooks: Internal Corporate Fraud Investigations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few pointers for companies attempting to do internal investigations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create an investigative policy that helps determine when to do a full-blown investigation.<\/li>\n<li>Assemble a team of competent professionals, and appoint a captain for the ship. The team should include an experienced fraud examiner, corporate security, a management representative, outside consultants for specialties such as computer forensics, and legal counsel.<\/li>\n<li>Establish a game plan. What is the scope of the investigation? What is our budget? Who does what?<\/li>\n<li>Follow good procedures. Maintain the chain of custody of evidence, keep information confidential, and keep track of important dates in the investigation.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that the results of your investigation may someday end up in a court room. Document your findings accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I spent three days in the Atlanta area providing training for the Georgia CPA Society. One of the topics I presented was an in-depth session on internal investigations, called Books, Crooks &amp; Rooks: Internal Corporate Fraud Investigations. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}