About the author

The author is a retired Certified Public Accountant with decades of experience auditing public and private companies. He has designed, documented, implemented, and tested internal control systems for companies large and small, held professional credentials in information systems audit and risk, and served as a senior financial executive.

He also knows financial deception from the inside. He was pulled into the fallout of a Ponzi scheme that ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars, and he paid a steep personal price for not following his own training. These guides are the playbook he wishes he had followed.

He writes anonymously so the focus stays on your case, not his.