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Employee Embezzlement Investigation

We find the theft fast, before the statute or the money disappears.

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Staff You Trusted … Trusted Themselves More

Ghost checks. Skimmed cash drawers. Fake vendors. Every embezzler leaves receipts, but only a forensic accountant knows where to look.

Exactly What We Examine

  • Cash & Deposit Anomalies
  • Payroll Ghosting & Fake Employees
  • Purchasing Kickbacks with Phantom Vendors
  • Inventory Adjustments after Hours
  • Credit-Card Abuse & Out-of-Policy Expenses
  • Hidden Bank Accounts & Dummy Entities

Methodology Timeline

We run rapid analytics on cash, deposits and journal entries to spot the first smoke; duplicate vendors, ghost employees, or unexplained inventory variance.

Clients upload or email scans of bank statements, accounting records, and vendor invoices. We reconcile every line item against bank records, credit-card statements, and payroll entries to capture a complete paper trail, no hardware imaging required.

Follow the money from company accounts to concealed cash cards, personal Venmo or offshore wires, and reconstruct the exact embezzled amount. 

Receive an executive memo plus fully-source-linked PDF; stand behind a forensic CPA who is deposition-ready and has never been Daubert-challenged.

Results Delivered for Clients

HOA Dues Theft

Management company was stealing homeowner’s dues from absent homeowners. Management company transferred funds directly from HOA bank account into their account. HOA collected on insurance policy due to fraud, management company was referred to the State for prosecution. 

Employee Embezzlement

Longtime employee was stealing customer payments on AR. Forensic tracing of timestamped reports and customer receipts clearly showed how employee was working the scheme. Employee took plea deal with DA.

Industry-Sourced Insight: ACFE Fraud Statistics

According to the “Occupational Fraud 2024: A Report to the Nations”

  • Organizations lose 5% of revenue to fraud each year
  • Median loss per case is $145,000
  • Typical fraud case lasts 12 months before detection
  • The longer a fraudster has worked for an organization, the more costly their fraud
  • More than half of occupational frauds occur due to lack of internal controls

With losses this huge nationwide, every missing dollar hurts, see how defensible evidence flips the odds and protects what’s yours.

What documents should I gather before the free call?

Pull the last two years of bank statements, general ledger exports, check registers, payroll reports, vendor invoices, and any suspicious emails. Digital copies are fine, just keep the originals unaltered.

Is the investigation billed hourly or flat-rate?

We work exclusively at a transparent $250 per hour. 

Can the examination proceed if the suspected party refuses to cooperate?

Yes. We use subpoena-ready asset-tracing techniques, third-party bank records, and other forensics techniques that do not rely on the subject’s consent.

Got suspicious slips or missing cash?

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