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Keeping Debtors Honest With a Solvency Opinion

By: Tony LaNasa

Are you worried your business won’t receive what a liquidating creditor owes it? In most cases, liquidating companies come by their financially distressed situations honestly. But there’s always a chance […]

January Is the Cruelest Month for Retail Return Fraud

By: Tony LaNasa

For many retailers, January isn’t just the first month of the year: It’s “return season,” when customers bring back their unwanted holiday gifts for refunds or exchanges. Return season can […]

How AI and Machine Learning Help Fight Fraud

By: Tony LaNasa

The biannual Association of Certified Fraud Examiners “Report to the Nations” has repeatedly concluded that the longer fraud schemes remain undetected, the greater the losses for the victimized organizations. According […]

What are Your Job Applicants Hiding?

By: Tony LaNasa

Checkster, a reference checking company, has found that 78% of job candidates either misrepresent or consider misrepresenting themselves during the hiring process. And a survey by career advice company ResumeLab […]

Don’t Fall for Invoice Fraud Schemes

By: Tony LaNasa

Middle-market businesses lose an average of almost $300,000 annually to invoice fraud, according to a recent survey by software company Medius and researcher Censuswide. Invoice fraud can be challenging to […]

HW&Co. Supports International Fraud Awareness Week

Fraud costs organizations worldwide an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues, according to a study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Occupational Fraud 2022: A Report […]

Fraud’s New Frontier: NFTs

By: Tony LaNasa

When new technologies emerge, it can take time for the general public to learn how they work. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, first appeared in 2014, yet many people are still […]

When a Valuation Professional Finds Fraud

By: Tony LaNasa

Imagine you’ve got your eye on a business that seems like an attractive investment or acquisition target. It boasts strong earnings, competitive growth estimates and a clean balance sheet. But […]

Preventing “Privileged User” Fraud and Abuse

By: Tony LaNasa

In most companies, employees need a user identity to access work-related hardware and software. Privileges to use certain applications or open certain files usually are provided to workers based on […]

Don’t Let Tax Identity Thieves Steal Your Refund — Or Your Peace of Mind

By: Tony LaNasa

Any form of identity theft can be costly, unsettling, and take months — sometimes years — to fully recover from and repair. But tax-related identity theft can be particularly disturbing […]

Don’t Let Fraud Break the Bonds of Your Family Business

By: Tony LaNasa

According to Family Enterprise USA, 87% of U.S. companies are family businesses, which are responsible for 54% of gross domestic product or $7.7 trillion. Although family businesses are an economic […]

Protect Your Public Company With an Insider Trading Policy

By: Tony LaNasa

Successful stock trading requires access to information — preferably publicly available information. However, some investors attempt to get a jump on the market by using insider knowledge to make buying, […]

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