Forensic accounting can uncover fraud

The person over there, the who sits right near you at your office, is the one you’d least suspect to be stealing from the company. But maybe that’s the one who should be watched more carefully than anyone else.

Michael McCartney, who owns computer forensics company DIGITS LLC, works cases involving embezzlement or stealing trade secrets. And when the evidence trail leads to an employee who was copying the information from a company computer, business owners often tell him that the culprit, “was the last person I suspected...