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Do accounting errors & fraud really affect small businesses?... ABSOLUTELY!

Accounting errors and fraud undermine financial decisions, result in monetary losses and in some cases even force companies to close. Read the TRUE STORIES below to see how REAL small businesses are affected by errors and fraud every day.

True Story Round-up for April 21

A bookkeeper for Hackney’s restaurant has been charged with embezzling more than $180,000 over nearly two years.

A woman faces 10 felony charges after police say she wrote unauthorized checks to herself and took money from her employer.

Bookkeeper used credit cards from a business to pay his own personal expenses without authorization and also used [...]

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True Story Round-up for April 12

A doctor noticed that he had suspicious transactions on his business account. He contacted his accountant, and upon an audit of several years of finances, they discovered that some of the suspicious activity had been occurring since 2009.

A former bookkeeper for two Louisiana companies has pleaded guilty to embezzling more [...]

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True Story Round-up for April 4

A former bookkeeper is was behind bars after police say she embezzled more than $25,000 from an electrical contractor.  Records show she bought groceries, went to eat at various restaurants, and even bought airline tickets, rental cars and went to beauty salons all on the company’s dime.  She even set up [...]

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True Story Round-up for March 29

As our bookkeeper, he was able to bury his theft in ways that indicated mismanagement or poor performance on the part of his co-workers. To exact this level of deceit is unconscionable.

The former bookkeeper for a local petroleum interest group has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for embezzling nearly [...]

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True Story Round-up for March 22

Twenty year bookkeeper steals $2.3 million.  She made false entries in the company books indicating that the checks were being paid to various transportation companies and other entities.

State Police have arrested a woman accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from a recreational vehicle company where she worked as its bookkeeper.

A woman [...]

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True Story Round-up for March 15

An independent contract bookkeeper for several businesses, allegedly embezzled more than $80,000 from at least one of her local employers while working as a part-time bookkeeper.

A woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $240,000 from a local company over the course of seven years.  She would create false entries in the bookkeeping [...]

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True Story Round-up for March 8

A woman suspected of stealing nearly $70,000 from her former employer was arrested.

A woman who stole more than $400,000 while working as a bookkeeper at a central New Jersey firm has been sentenced to five years in prison.

In addition to the financial loss and  obvious breach of trust issues, the offenses had a [...]

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True Story Round-up for March 1

A woman faces possible prison time stemming from charges that she stole nearly half a million dollars from a law firm where she was employed in order to support her lavish lifestyle.

A 58-year-old woman who stole more than $400,000 and lost it all gambling, has been sentenced to three years in prison.  She [...]

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True Story Round-up for February 22

A woman faces up to 15 years in prison for stealing nearly $400,000 from her employer over a 6-year period.

Couple Pleads Guilty To Fraud In Bozeman Dairy Case.  Used multiple techniqes to steal more than $1,000,000.

A 43-year-old woman has been accused of embezzling more than $13,000 from a Billings company where she worked as a [...]

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True Story Round-up for February 15

A financial bookkeeper for an architectural firm siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars from her company for personal expenses.

A federal grand jury recently indicted a woman for embezzling from the landscape company where she worked and for not reporting the stolen income to the IRS.

A former bookkeeper of a Modesto real [...]

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