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Category · Fraud Detection
Common fraud indicators
Potential indicators include duplicate payments, unusual vendors, altered records, missing documentation, related-party transfers, unexplained cash movement, or ledger entries that do not match source documents.
Indicators are not proof; they are investigative leads that justify targeted tracing, custodian interviews (as directed by counsel), and supplemental discovery requests.
Asset tracing and embezzlement
The analysis may trace funds across bank accounts, compare accounting entries to source records, reconstruct transaction history, and prepare schedules of suspected misappropriation.
Embezzlement investigations often converge on segregation-of-duty failures, override controls, and suspicious journal entry patterns concentrated in a small user population.
How counsel uses the analysis
Findings may support discovery requests, deposition questions, mediation exhibits, expert reports, rebuttal analysis, or testimony on financial patterns and records.
For a deeper red-flag checklist, read the companion article on signs of financial fraud in a business.
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