Case Study: Cooking the QuickBooks

Case Background:  The owner of a restaurant suspected that an employee was stealing money; however, his accounting system, QuickBooks, revealed no missing funds.

Result: A computer forensics investigation determined that an employee had, in fact, stolen money — and then made adjustments in QuickBooks to remove the money from the ledger. The employee had also attempted to use some technical trickery to further cover his tracks. Silverman’s computer forensics team easily saw through these ploys, and the employee was held accountable.