Blog Archives: 2014

The Top Five Things You Need to Know to Prepare for the New Tangible Property Regulations

Posted December 18th, 2014 & filed under Blog.

By now you have likely heard about the new tangible property regulations. These new rules, which were a decade in the making and are almost 400 pages long, are expected to affect every taxpayer that uses tangible property in its business.

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Fraud Lessons Learned – The Barry Minkow Case

Posted November 21st, 2014 & filed under Blog.

International Fraud Awareness Week is drawing to a close. In the spirit of understanding history so we are not doomed to repeat it, I would like to share one more post this week.

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The Rise of Forensic Accounting

Posted November 20th, 2014 & filed under Blog.

This week is International Fraud Awareness Week.  The business of fraud has been going on for ages, but the general practice of forensic accounting was only really formalized about 100 years ago. 

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Set the Tone, Don’t Break It

Posted November 19th, 2014 & filed under Blog.

Earlier this year, I attended a workshop where the discussion leader used this music video to demonstrate the power of social media. The more I thought about it,

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Ponzi – The Man and the Scheme

Posted November 18th, 2014 & filed under Blog.

A common fraud scheme that typically makes the news is known as a Ponzi scheme.  Have you ever wondered why a Ponzi scheme has that name?  Did you know that it was named after a famous fraudster named Charles Ponzi?

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