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The Thief in Your Company: Protect Your Organization from the Financial and Emotional Impacts of Insider Fraud Paperback – January 12, 2017

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Fraud can happen anywhere—even in the most successful companies. Most businesses, large and small, lose an average of 5% of their annual gross revenues to insider fraud.

The worst part? The Thief in Your Company is most likely the person you trust the most.

Forensic accountant Tiffany Couch is a sleuth with an adding machine. She has seen theft in many forms, but what sticks with her the most is not the fraud schemes or the dollar losses. It’s the victims who all experience the same emotional devastation that these crimes leave in their wake.

And her warning: It can happen to you.

The Thief in Your Company will educate you and entertain you, pull at your heart strings, and convince you to put her time-tested security blueprint into practice. All types and sizes of organizations will learn how to:
  • Be familiar with and protect against the most common fraud schemes
  • Recognize who the typical fraudsters are
  • Leave the door open for whistleblowers to report suspicious activity
  • Take specific actionable steps if fraudulent activity is discovered
  • Understand the emotional impacts of financial crimes


The impacts of fraud are financially and emotionally devastating. Taking simple actionable steps will help companies recover, gain peace of mind, and take their power back.
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  5. ISBN-10
    161961586X
  6. ISBN-13
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"Employers need to hire those that can be trusted. However, they can be trusted too much. As vividly portrayed in The Thief in Your Company, most (but not all) employees don't take their jobs for the purpose of stealing. But then their circumstances change. In cases taken from her own files, Tiffany Couch---a true antifraud expert---illustrates the myriad of motivations and methods used by dishonest workers to commit fraud against their companies. This book is full of knowledge and is written in a wonderfully engaging style."- Dr. Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, Founder and Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners "As a fraud investigator with over 25 years of experience dealing with all types of fraudsters and the emotional impact they have on business, employees and whistleblowers, I found this book to be very insightful."- Nancy Riley Rich, Supervisory Fraud Investigator for the Federal Government "It's wonderfully refreshing to see someone deal with the emotional impact of workplace fraud. It's an over-looked but very important area of our profession. I read it in one sitting! Fabulous."- Janet M. McHard, CPA, CFE, MAFF, CFF, Founding Partner, McHard Accounting Consulting LLC
"Tiffany Couch is one of the ACFE's most respected members. In this book, she shares practical advice on detecting and preventing many of the internal frauds that organizations fall victim to each day. Her use of actual case examples and personal stories makes the lessons less like a textbook and more like a good "whodunit." It is a great resource for both business management and anti-fraud professionals."- James D. Ratley, CFE, President, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lioncrest Publishin (January 12, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161961586X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1619615861
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

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Tiffany Couch

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TIFFANY COUCH, CPA/CFF, CFE, is Founder and CEO of Acuity Forensics, a Pacific Northwest forensic accounting firm (www.acuityforensics.com). She has dedicated the majority of her 20- year accounting career to investigating complex cases of insider fraud. She is a nationally-recognized expert witness and educator on the topic of fraud and forensic accounting and her expertise has been used by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and Fraud Magazine. For more information, visit www.tiffanycouch.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reading this book could save you a lot of money and grief!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2017
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I liked that the book talked about the emotional side of fraud as well as what to look for & the fraud triangle. A good read for any business owner, especially where segregation of duties is difficult. There are still things the owner can do to protect his company like opening & checking bank statements over personally. I thought the book was written in simple language and easy for a non-accountant to understand. Knowing this information could save an owner a lot of money and grief. I have dealt with fraud and it takes a lot of time, resources and is emotionally draining. It is often times the person that you never thought in a million years would steal from you, but they do and then you have to handle it. This book also talks about how to handle the fraud.
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Jim Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will help protect you and your business from fraud
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2018
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Reading this book and implementing its principles is arguably one of the best investments you can make to protect your business from fraud in its many forms.

The impact of fraud is devastating. The financial losses can erase years of hard-earned value and possibly drive you out of business. The betrayal of trust can even bring stoic professionals to tears.

Tiffany Couch brilliantly weaves her professional stories throughout her insights and lessons making The Thief in Your Company an engaging, interesting and highly valuable read. Along with numerous accounts of fraud and its consequent aftermath, Tiffany provides highly instructive and actionable PREVENTIVE measures so you can begin to protect your business NOW!

Tiffany also provides you with a Ten-Step Checklist of what to do if you find that fraud occurred in your business. BOTTOM LINE: The Thief in Your Company is one of the best investments you can make to (1) prevent fraud from crashing your business and (2) detect fraud asap if it does occur.
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Jose G
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast read
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2021
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It's an ok book. Would be great reference to someone who is new to the accounting or auditing field. If you have been in this industry for a while then this book would just be common sense. Really fast read.
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Alana Gabrielson
5.0 out of 5 stars a must read for all CPAs and buisness owners!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2017
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This book will remain in my bookshelf and will be a reminder to me on how to be an asset to my clients versus just a bill they pay for accounting services. The author show CPAs how to bring the human side to their work. Yes we work with the numbers but behind the numbers are people and their dreams, successes, failures and lives. Thank you Tiffany for writing about how important it is to see our clients first as people and then the engagement. This book will be something each of my staff will read and implement in working at my firm. It will also be a book I recommend every business owner to read and implement in their business. It is well written for non-accountants to understand and also allows the CPA to relate to the experiences Tiffany had with her own clients and experiences. Thank you Tiffany for taking the time to write your experiences and knowledge gained from those experiences with the business world.
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Tom Berkompas
5.0 out of 5 stars "Wise" Criminals
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017
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"...there are foolish criminals who are discovered, and wise criminals who escape. The hiding of a crime, or the detection of a crime, what is it? A trial of skill between the police on one side, and the individual on the other. When the criminal is a brutal, ignorant fool, the police in nine cases out of ten win. When the criminal is a resolute, educated, highly-intelligent man, the police in nine cases out of ten lose. If the police win, you generally hear all about it. If the police lose, you generally hear nothing. And on this tottering foundation you build up your comfortable moral maxim that Crime causes its own detection! Yes—all the crime you know of. And what of the rest?" (Count Fosco, The Woman in White)

If there indeed is such a thing as a "wise criminal" surely the resolution, education and intelligence of the fraudster who takes advantage of the trust of his employer for personal gain qualifies for such a label particularly as it relates to the frequent lack of or late detection of his crimes.

In her excellent book on the topic of "familiar" fraudsters Tiffany Couch classifies businesses and organizations into three categories: those which have been victimized, those which will be, and those which have been victimized but will not be again having learned from their mistakes.

If you find yourself in the first category, you will find solace in Tiffany's poignant stories that the emotions you felt when the betrayed trust was finally exposed are natural and shared by all who are victimized in this way. Your membership card now punched, use Tiffany's suggestions in this book to leverage membership into that third category.

If you imagine yourself a member of the illusory fourth category: those who have not been victims and never will be, you are probably actually in the second category and Tiffany's revelations of typical weak spots in the defense against fraud are ignored at your peril. If you find nothing in this book currently of value to you, don't cast it aside but keep if for that nearly inevitable time in the future when, suffering from the betrayal of trust resulting from your willful ignorance of the information Tiffany provides in this book, you are in need of the consolation of those who have gone before you and you want to know how to keep it from happening again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally Engaging & Informative!
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018
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Fraud, forensic accounting, recovery . . . not necessarily topics that you expect to be page turners, but Tiffany has done it! This book reads like a CSI episode. It is engaging and informative. You will learn not just about fraud, but you'll also learn about the psychology of a fraudster. If you have a business you need to read this book to protect yourself from the financial ramifications of fraud but also the emotional. I'm sending this book to all of my business owner clients!
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Jaye
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for all organizations.
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020
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This book is a nice easy read that give good guidelines, suggestions, and best practices to help protect your organization. Almost every suggestion is almost free and it tells where to start looking for problems or what policy to put in place that an issue should be caught very quickly. Highly recommend, wish we would have came across this book before an employee stole from us.
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