Two of our partners (Susan Vos and Dave Barber) are Certified Fraud Examiners as issued by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”).
Susan has performed litigation support in conjunction with misappropriated assets within a not-for-profit, partner disputes, and family trust fiduciary performance. She has performed agreed-upon procedures in an estate dispute and supervised and performed forensic investigations. Susan has spoken to groups regarding fraud prevention and detection and has experience performing and supervising fraud investigations and reviews of internal controls. Susan is a founding member of the local Southern Arizona Chapter of the ACFE.
Susan has more than 13 years of public accounting experience, providing a wide variety of audit, accounting, and consulting services to businesses, individuals, nonprofit and governmental organizations. Specific industries served include not-for-profit, manufacturing, health care, charter schools, and pension plans.
Dave has performed investigative procedures in conjunction with client trust accounts and provided reports and information to the Arizona State Bar Association. He has performed litigation support in conjunction with misappropriated assets, partner disputes, and in conjunction with an insurance settlement and lost profits. He supervised forensic investigations and served as a contracted investigative reviewer for the Arizona State Board of Accountancy.
Dave has more than 30 years of public accounting experience, including 17 years of public practice in Arizona providing a wide variety of audit, accounting, consulting and income tax services to businesses, individuals, nonprofit and governmental organizations. Specific industries served include construction, manufacturing, health care, public utilities, and pension plans.
Dave has spoken to business groups regarding fraud prevention and detection, assisted defense attorneys in IRS and other criminal matters, has experience performing and supervising fraud investigations and reviews of internal controls, provided written testimony in Illinois Commerce Commission regulatory hearings regarding various utility company matters, performed agreed-upon procedures on behalf of third parties to test specific elements of financial statements and review financial viability of companies, performed business valuation services in conjunction with a divorce proceeding, participated in investigation of embezzlement of funds from a credit union, directed and performed financial and compliance audits of the State of Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office and the Illinois Department of Central Management Services. Testified before the Illinois Legislative Audit Committee on findings of the audits.
At RCM, we pursue our work on your behalf with a commitment to professionalism and a promise to present what we find, without implication as to guilt or innocence.
