(By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar, CFE, Founding Partner of Behavioral Forensics GroupTMLLC MONEY Magazine of March 2018 carries the following article on page 22: The Insane Amount Millionaires Say They Need To Be Happy. (Research shows the more you have, the more you think you need) The article recounts that researchers from the Harvard Business […]
(By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar, CFE, Founding Principal – Behavioral Forensics GroupTM, LLC) The September, 2017 edition of Corporate Counsel magazine reported the results of a survey done by Deloitte Consulting of corporate General Counsel executives: “Survey: GCS Fear Workers Will Let Lapses Slide” (p.10) The survey was released by Deloitte Consulting’s Don Fancher, […]
Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti, ACA, CPA/CITP/CFF/CGMA, CIA, CFE, CFSA, CGAP, CGFM, CRMA, CRP, MAFF, Founding and Managing Principal of Behavioral Forensics GroupTMLLC, has been invited to speak in June at the annual Consultants Conference of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA), in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Ramamoorti’s presentation is titled, “Beliefs, Behaviors, and […]
(It is in rewards and compensation systems) (By Dr. Joseph W. Koletar, CFE, Founding Principal of Behavioral Forensics GroupTMLLC) (NOTE: Our previous posting briefly suggests that rewards structures within companies sometimes encourage fraud, especially when business is going bad. This posting by Dr. Koletar picks up where that posting ended by more deeply defining the […]
Inaugural Education Program for the Behavioral Forensics Group (Daven Morrison with Jack Bigelow, Vic Hartman and Joe Koletar) Last month we spent a weekend with the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) in San Diego. In our inaugural Behavioral Forensics Group seminar our team had the delightful opportunity to share our concepts and […]
(By Jack Bigelow) With the passing of the holiday season, the nation’s brick-and-mortar retail companies are deep in the winter of their discontent. The discontent stems from a business model that appears to be in peril from on-line competitors that are blitzing the retail market, riding the crest of a sea change in consumer buying […]
(Blog Curator’s Note: With this posting, we end a lengthy hiatus in postings on this blog, for reasons cited in the previous posting. It is appropriate to return to some basic thinking about fraud as we resume. Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti is founder of this blog, and the posting below is based on his definition of […]
To our bringingfreudtofraud followers: We are back! Our blog site has been dormant during construction of (and eventual integration with) our new web site, behavioralforensicsgroup.com. But we are now back and you will soon see fresh new postings on all matters regarding why people commit fraud. The Curator
(By Jack Bigelow) 60 years ago, our nation was stunned by Sputnik. The Soviet Union caught the United States by surprise when it launched the first human-made satellite. Sputnik became the trigger-title for starting an intense period of national introspection, concluding that U.S. attention to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (now known in academic circles […]
Behavioral & Computer Forensics: A New Interpretation of Human-Computer Interactions (Blog Posting Part II) (By Sri Ramamoorti and David Sems) In an earlier post at this blogsite, we noted that computers and software are, in themselves, tools of massive utility for communication and productivity. We also observed that they are empty of value and and […]