Read about how local attorney and Alston & Bird partner, Scott Hilsen, found time to write a novel based on a true crime case that he spearheaded. Scott Hilsen is also one of the featured speakers at the GSCPA Forensic & Accounting Conference on September 16, 2011. Click here to view and/or download the conference [...]

March, 2011 – Atlanta, GA – We’ve all heard of white collar crime, but new trends such as red and even pink collar crime will be explored at an upcoming conference for fraud-fighters. The 5th Annual Fraud & Forensic Accounting Education Conference will be held June 2-4, 2011 on the Savannah Riverfront. Georgia Southern University’s [...]

Laurie is pleased to be scheduled to speak at the 5th Annual Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference sponsored by Georgia Southern University’s Forensic Accounting Program and the CPA firm of Porter Keadle Moore, LLP. The conference is targeted to Certified Fraud Examiners, CPA’s Certified in Financial Forensics, fraud educators, students and other professionals interested [...]

Loved this article about working with experts, published by the American Bar Association.   As an expert, I find that I am able to contribute the most to a case when I am brought into the case early and am treated as a member of the team! For more like this, join the Georgia Society of [...]

The article below is based on a real case; however, names have been withheld and certain facts changed to protect confidentiality of the parties. Every month, the Treasurer of a non-profit organization prepared a neat package to support the monthly financial reports. She made notes on the bank statements as to the nature of each deposit [...]

Read the GA Society of CPA’s Forensic and Valuation Services Section May 2010 Niche News.

During April, IAG members Laurie Dyke and Michele Bruce teamed with Jim Hart of The Lightfoot Group to help Southern Polytechnical State University (SPSU) students prepare for a mock fraud trial. SPSU Professor Bill Beecken reports: “[On April 28th, 2010], three volunteers from the Pickens County legal community (Attorneys John Capo and Scott Poole and Magistrate [...]

One of the most challenging aspects of being a financial expert witness is presentation of complex analysis to an audience unfamiliar with the subject matter and prone to distraction, such as judges and juries.  Almost nothing puts a trier of fact to sleep faster than a bunch of numbers. Numbers are more effective than most [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]