Our firm also provides accounting services designed to uncover various types of fraud and defalcation such as employee theft. Our firm staff includes a licensed CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics). We are often called on to trace cash receipts and disbursements related to divorcing spouses and other matters. Divorces may also involve issues of asset commingling and the determination of separate property erroneously converted to marital property. Small businesses sometimes engage us to review the propriety of transactions involving shareholders and partners. Trust beneficiaries are sometimes concerned about amounts and types of distributions, the classification of trust income and/or expenses and the benefits available to the trustee. Courts and lawyers often refer to us taxpayers who have failed to file income tax returns for many years and need to reconstruct their records.
Although it goes without saying that our CPA/Client relationship is confidential and private, each forensic engagement is treated with the utmost sensitivity and concern. When an engagement is not part of an on-going prosecution, we are always alert to the possibility of, and are prepared to participate and testify in, criminal proceedings arising from such an engagement.