Business Investigations
Employee Background Investigations
Hiring is never easy, everyone puts their best foot forward in the interview process, and references are hard to check and it is even harder to verify the person on the other end of the phone is who they say they are. The stakes are high, once you make a decision this person that you have never met before represents your business and the brand that you have worked hard to develop. You will spend time training and money equipping them for the job, hoping they are a good fit for your company. If you make an uninformed decision, the consequences can be disastrous.
Having Midlands Private Investigations review your candidates before you make a final decision on employment can save you and your business time and money. We can check arrests, court records, lawsuits and social media for negative findings. We can verify all the information that they have provided to you as part of the hiring process is true and accurate, and find the information they are keeping from you. References can be checked and verified for accuracy.
The background investigations can be as deep or as shallow as your business needs. We will work with you to craft the right investigative package for you, getting all the information you need and none of the things you don't. You have enough to do in your business, let us make the hiring process easier so you can get back to doing what you do best.
Fraud Investigations
As your business grows you have more and more to keep track of, numerous employees, vendors, accounts, and contractors. Having so many people in and out of your business makes keeping track of their comings and goings almost impossible. When inventory or even funds start to go missing, it becomes a daunting process to figure out where the fraud is occurring. Is the problem customers shoplifting your supplies, or do you have a dishonest employee who are helping themselves when you aren't around? Are your vendors short-changing the deliveries so that what you have on paper and what you have in reality never match up?
We can investigate your business and help you look behind the scenes to see what is going on. From installing covert surveillance cameras, refining your loss prevention process, to interviewing suspect employees, we will leave no stone unturned in finding the source of the fraud in your business and helping you remove it to maximize your profits. Each investigation is unique and will be carefully crafted to give you the most benefit while minimizing any disruption to your business. Contact us today to get your business back on track.
Forensic Accounting
While you are running and growing your business, someone must keep track of the finances behind the scenes. That person might be a family member, a part time bookkeeper you hired to help out or a private accounting firm you pay for the service. Whomever is performing the function for you has a huge responsibility, keeping your numbers in order can be the difference between running a profitable company and bankrupcy.
Sometimes errors can be made in good faith, an addition error, forgetting to make an entry in the proper account, all perfectly explainable. However if you have enough of these errors the effect will soon be felt on your bottom line. A dishonest bookkeeper is a much larger problem. Making up fictitious invoices to syphon cash off, wholesale thefts of your hard earned profits, these can go on for months or years before anyone catches on.
By having our team audit your books you get a fresh set of eyes on your finances. Our team brings together the knowledge and experience of working complex criminal investigations with the financial acumen of licensed CPA's to find the errors in your books and determine if they are the result of sloppy work or if their is a systemic scheme to defraud you and benefit themselves. At the end of the investigation you will receive a detailed report of our findings and our continued services if the matter is brought to civil or criminal court. Either way you will know for certain that every penny you earn is yours moving forward.
