GSCPA Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation »

Laurie will be speaking at the GSCPA North Atlanta Chapter Business Appreciation Night meeting on January 21, 2010, along with Victor Hartmann, FBI special agent.  Mr. Hartmann will be talking about financial statement fraud, health care fraud, mortgage fraud, and other current issues.  Laurie will present some case studies of small business fraud that she [...]

Parenting Time Deviation »

We’ve received a lot of questions about parenting time deviations for Georgia child support, including

Does parenting time really matter?
How is the deviation calculated?
What happens in cases of 50/50 joint custody?
Can child support be increased based on parenting time as well as decreased?

Here is a general response/discussion of the parenting time deviation and how it works [...]

Child Support Self-Employment Calculator Training »

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, Laurie will travel to Macon with Jill Radwin and Elaine Johnson from the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts to provide training for trainers for the Office of Child Support Services on use of the new Self-Employment Calculator and related issues.

100+ Women Against Domestic Violence »

Laurie was mentioned in an article by Sally Litchfield in the Marietta Daily Journal on Wednesday, January 13, as host of a fundraiser for the YWCA of Northwest Georgia.

Smart Woman Interview »

Laurie and Lisa were interviewed on Jan. 13 for a consumer television show targeted to women called Smart Woman.  They are producing a show about the value of using a forensic accountant in the divorce process.  Margot Swann from Visions Anew also was interviewed.   Thw show will eventually be broadcast on television stations across the [...]

Reading Between the Dollar Signs »

Whether you are a loan officer considering a new business loan, an owner of a business reviewing reports from management, an investor considering an investment in what appears to be a lucrative proposition, or a franchisor monitoring a franchisee, you need to know the warning signs of falsified financial statements. The Journal of Accountancy recently published [...]

Check Washing – Simple yet Costly »

One category of check fraud is check washing. It accounts for over $815,000,000 in losses per year. The practice began in the 1980’s and police and federal agents report in over 90% of the cases, the perpetrators were methamphetamine addicts or “speed heads”. In the worst instances, they have established networks or crime rings to conduct their operations.
The [...]

Rules of Unengagement »

Contributed by:   Stearns-Montgomery & Proctor – Family Law Attorneys
If you have watched any television over the holiday season, you have undoubtedly been subjected to the seemingly never-ending barrage of jewelry commercials portraying husbands and boyfriends surprising their wives and girlfriends with fine rings, bracelets, necklaces, etc. Of course, the jewelry companies are hoping to convince [...]

Welcome to our Blog! »

Welcome to our new Blog, with links to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. It’s a new venture for us and one that we are excited about. Our goal is to provide content that will be interesting and useful for our clients and prospective clients in the areas of fraud and forensics, divorce, legal news and views about [...]

CPA Responsibility to Detect Fraud »

We’ve worked on many fraud investigations over the years, from very small companies to large, publicly held companies.  Each situation is unique, of course, and different factors contribute to fraud in individual situations.  One of the common factors that has been present in every situation in which we have been involved is that the company had a [...]