Hovland Forensic

Employee Embezzlement Investigation in Colorado

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

Staff You Trusted … Trusted Themselves More

Ghost checks. Skimmed cash drawers. Fake vendors. Employee embezzlement is one of the most common financial crimes affecting Colorado businesses, and every embezzler leaves receipts. 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”

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

Hovland Forensic conducts employee embezzlement investigations for businesses throughout Colorado, including Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, Pueblo, and Grand Junction, as well as clients nationwide..

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