Expert Evidence – Reported Cases

Fraud, is it happening in your backyard?

With Christmas just around the corner, do you suspect that someone is getting an unwarranted bonus?

Are you a business owner or an employee of an establishment where you have a niggling gut feeling that there is something not quite right about someone or something in that business […]

Fraud
Office Manager sentenced to 4 years jail for fraud
A successful family owned business in Brisbane felt the full impact of fraud in their business from a long term employee.  Mrs Brown (not her real name) pleaded guilty to one count of fraud as an employee to the value of $30,000 or more.
She was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment on […]

Fraud
Mrs Smith (not real name), a now 62 year old woman was found guilty of one count of fraud in the District Court of Queensland at Maroochydore on 5 December 2017.  In sentencing Mrs Smith to five years imprisonment (suspended after 18 months), Judge Robertson commented:
“this was extensive fraud over a lengthy pe […]

Occupational Fraud continues to remain a universal problem faced by all business and government entities against dishonest individuals who have been hired to carry out the organisation’s operations.
Steven Ponsonby, Founding Director of Forensic Accounting Qld advises that fraud is ubiquitous; it does not discriminate in its occurrence […]

Forensic Accounting Qld Joins Movement to Shine a Spotlight on Fraud
International Fraud Awareness Week kicks off 12 November 2017 worldwide
Fraud costs organisations worldwide an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues, according to a study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). The ACFE’s 2016 Report to […]

Media Release from: Forensic Accounting Qld
Cyber Crime – Stay Smart Online 9 to 13 October 2017
Community urged to be aware of Cyber Crime and boost online safety, one step at a time in Stay Smart Online Week.
Forensic Accounting Qld is encouraging Australians to make internet safety a top priority, partnering with Stay Smart O […]

The Background:
The expert evidence of Steven Ponsonby was relied on in the recent decision of  IW & CA Price Constructions Pty Ltd v Australian Building Insurance Services Pty Ltd & Ors [2017] QSC 39. In the decision handed down by Justice Lyons in the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Court found in favour of the Defendant in […]

Forensic Accounting Qld Joins Movement to Shine a Spotlight on Fraud
International Fraud Awareness Week kicks off 13 November 2016 worldwide
Fraud costs organisations worldwide an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues, according to a study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). The ACFE’s 2016 Report to […]

Forensic Accounting – Family Law
Family law, how can this be connected with the recent Olympics, I hear you say.
When I look back on how many family law matters that our firm has been involved in over the years, I’ve noticed that there often appears to be a common thread.  Typically, one of the parties to th […]