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.
Bookkeeper at Whitemarsh firm sentenced in fraud case
A former bookkeeper charged with stealing nearly a quarter-million dollars from his Lafayette Hill employer was sentenced to prison.
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Former Mineola bookkeeper sentenced for bank fraud
According to information presented in court, from April 2006 to April 2008, the bookkeeper for Donovan White Cabinets, devised a scheme to defraud her employer by forging checks issued on the company’s bank account.
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Bookkeeper took $807,000 while at job she ‘truly’ enjoys
After Mary Merten was caught embezzling more than $800,000 from the Kingston law firm where she worked as a bookkeeper, she pulled a move that showed more guts.
Facing a stack of grand larceny and identity-theft charges, Merten wrote this in a letter to the lawyers she stole from:
“I do not want to put you on [...]
Bookkeeper accused of embezzling
Brooke Shafer got a new job with a property management company, spent nearly a year and a half as a bookkeeper and was arrested on allegations that she stole nearly $80,000 – all while another embezzlement case against her worked its way through the courts.
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Bookkeeper pleads not guilty to theft, fraud
The former Cozad High School secretary accused of stealing more than $300,000 from school funds pleaded not guilty Friday.
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Accountant suspected in theft of $100,000
A bookkeeper is suspected of swiping more than $100,000 from a local nonprofit group that links students with scientists, withdrawing some of the cash at a casino ATM.
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Survey: Workplace theft up
A 70-year-old Prairieville woman stood before a federal judge in Baton Rouge last month and admitted she forged a check of her former longtime employer, Deville Construction Co.
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Blue Springs woman pleads guilty of bank fraud, money laundering
A Blue Springs woman on Tuesday admitted to federal charges of bank fraud and money laundering for stealing from a Sugar Creek company where she was a bookkeeper.
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St. Cloud Bookkeeper Accused Of Fraud
Police said the business owner discovered he was unable to account for approximately $200,000 from his business accounts.
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