Fraud & Forensics

The pervasiveness and cost of corporate fraud, employee misappropriation of assets, and financial statement abuse is a huge problem in American business today.  Because of the nature of corporate fraud, companies need a specially trained expert with experience in investigation, detection and prevention techniques to thwart fraud.

Our team of experienced and credentialed forensic accountants can help you prevent and investigate fraudulent activity with our fraud prevention & detection and computer forensics services.

 Fraud Prevention & Detection

Fraud prevention processes, policies and controls are designed to stop fraud before it occurs eliminating the need for detection. Our fraud team can design a fraud detection and prevention plan that will help you:
Segregate duties Perform an independent audit
Create a process of checks and balances Perform a complete weakness assessment
Develop a procedures manual Develop a conflict of interest policy

Here are some of the services and tools you have access to with the Brown Smith Wallace fraud team.

• Fraud Risk Assessments
• Fraud Investigations
• Fraud Prevention Review
• Continuous Monitoring Programs
• Fraud Diagnostic Tools
• Anti-corruption Fraud Prevention Toolkit
• Fraud Detection & Prevention Scorecard
• Fraud Prevention Check-up

Computer Forensics

The extent of our digital society is requiring you to have the ability to investigate suspicious activity found on computers. IT risk ranges from financial fraud to hackers gaining access to your data.  IT forensics is the process of recovering and analyzing deleted, cached, and hidden data from IT equipment. Our professional IT forensics team has the ability to analyze a wide range of devices from laptops to mainframes. These three areas include the scope of our services:

• Forensic Incident Response
• Forensic Litigation Support
• Incident Response Process Improvement

When you engage Brown Smith Wallace to investigate suspicious computer activity, our computer forensics investigation follows this Fraud & Forensic Eight Step Process: