Financial Fraud

Protect your small business by using dual controls on finances. Never have one person writing, receiving and reconciling your business accounts. If you don't have the staff to add a second person, consider using an automated banking service. Also, eliminate paper checks. The more checks there are circulating, the greater the chance they may be intercepted, duplicated or manipulated.

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Financial Fraud II

If you must use paper checks in your business, establish internal procedures to review signatures and only use laser printed checks with security features. Secure the signature plates or severely limit access to any digitized signatures. And secure the checks themselves somewhere else-behind lock and key.

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Background Checks

Up to one-third of job applicants lie on their resumes. While colleges and universities will readily verify degrees and dates, many companies will only supply you with minimal information on previous employees. If you want to dig deeper…criminal background checks, for example, you might want to hire a firm that does that sort of thing..

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Trade Secrets

Trade secrets are information about your business not known to the general public…formulas, business plans and designs, for example. They are protected by state and federal laws. But the protection's not absolute. Trade secrets can be discovered through reverse-engineering. Do all you can to protect trade secrets, but it still may be not enough..

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