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    Disappearing Profits
    Disappearing Profits
    Disappearing Profits
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    Disappearing Profits

    By Dave Guenthner

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    Who’s stealing from your business? What are they taking and how do they do it? How do you stop them?
    According to the Association of Fraud Examiners, the amount of money reported lost to business fraud each year is estimated at 6% to 10% of company revenues. That is over $400 billion dollars per year reported as lost to fraud.
    Disappearing Profits defines fraud, identifies the types of businesses most susceptible to fraud, the employee’s most likely to steal from a business, how they steal and what you can do to stop the stealing.
    If you’ve been in business for more than a year and you have over five employees, you have probably been the victim of some sort of business fraud. The fraud may not have resulted in a significant loss to the company ... yet. The fraud may go undetected for years. Fraud always happens in a company that doesn’t think it can happen to them. If they thought it could, they would do something about it.
    How would you answer these ten questions at your company?
    Do you have a written code of conduct and ethics policy that all employees’ have been trained on and agreed to?
    Do you live by the code of conduct and ethics policy? Are you a good example?
    Do you have a culture that rewards compliance with company policy and punishes non-compliance?
    Do you separate the asset responsibility from the record keeping?
    Do you review the work of your longest tenured, most trusted employees on a periodic basis?
    Do you know every vendor you deal with, why you deal with them and what they provide to the company?
    Do you get a control listing of checks received and compare it to the deposit slip on a daily basis?
    Do you review your credit card statements monthly and verify that all charges are legitimate company expenses?
    Do customers claim they never got the merchandise you invoiced?
    Can inventory write-offs be explained?
    If the answer to one or more of these questions is no, you have an environment that is an opportunity for someone to commit a fraud against your company. The question is not if fraud has or will occur, the questions are who, when and how the fraud will occur.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Guenthner
    Release dateAug 15, 2012
    ISBN9781476027173
    Disappearing Profits
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    Dave Guenthner

    Dave Guenthner is a business executive, consultant, speaker, author and avid golfer. Born and raised in South Dakota, Dave received his Bachelors degree in business and attended law school at the University of South Dakota. Dave resides and golf’s in Omaha, Nebraska. Dave has played the “business course” under par in several different industries and companies in his 30 + year career. He began his career as a Certified Public Accountant and has held senior executive positions in companies in food products, manufacturing, distribution, medical staffing and information technology. Dave co-founded and was instrumental in growing a company, InaCom, from an idea into a $6 billion publicly traded Fortune 500 company. He has worked with companies that have been named numerous times to the Inc. 500 fastest growing private companies in the United States. Dave writes about business and is focused on sharing his experiences to help other executives and companies optimize their business and achieve their growth and profitability goals. When he golf’s, Dave always shoots in the 70’s....the only question is how many holes he has to play before the round is finished.

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      Disappearing Profits - Dave Guenthner

      DISAPPEARING PROFITS

      Business Fraud And How To Stop It

      By Dave Guenthner

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      Published by Dave Guenthner at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Dave Guenthner

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      HOW: BUSINESS FRAUD HAPPENS

      WHO: THE TARGET

      WHAT IS FRAUD

      THE COST OF FRAUD

      WHO COMMITS FRAUD

      WHY EMPLOYEES COMMIT FRAUD

      WHAT AND HOW

      SEVEN WARNING SIGNS

      PROTECTING AGAINST FRAUD

      CONCLUSION

      FRAUD RISK EVALUATION

      CODE OF CONDUCT AND ETHICS

      PERSONAL FRAUD PROTECTION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      HOW: BUSINESS FRAUD HAPPENS

      A while back I got a call from a client. He was angry. There was a tone of shock, denial and disbelief in his voice.

      Dave, I can’t believe it. I’m pretty sure, no, I’m positive one of my employees’, the controller I hired six months ago, is stealing from me.

      I asked, Why do you think that?

      I read about him in the paper. He was called to testify at a gambling trial. In his testimony he said that he had stolen from his previous employer. I asked him if he was stealing from us and he said he couldn’t say that he wasn’t.

      How did he do it and how much did he take? I asked.

      I don’t know how he did it but he said I signed all the checks for the cash that he stole. He claims that he only took a few thousand dollars but given our cash flow lately, it could have been a lot more.

      I went to the client’s office. After talking to the controller and reviewing checks for a few months, a pattern began to develop. The controller made the payroll tax deposits for the company. The checks were made out to the bank and deposited in a special bank account. The controller had opened his own account and was having the President occasionally sign checks for payroll tax deposits that were duplicates. My client wasn’t paying attention and missed what was going on. The controller had stolen over $200,000 from the company

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