What’s Buried in Your Data? Finding Employee Fraud in Everyday Transactions
Employee fraud analytics starts with a question: What might be hiding in the data your organization already has? A routine payment, a familiar vendor, or an ordinary payroll entry can look different when examined alongside other records.
On October 29, 2026, Aletheia Financial Forensics’ James Rumph, Daniel Herb, and Kendall Crosby will present for the NE Ohio Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in Brecksville, Ohio. The session is open to anti-fraud professionals who want to look more closely at the clues employees may leave in everyday transactions.
What might be hiding in the records?
The Halloween theme offers a memorable way to think about questions worth asking of the data:
- Ghost Employees: Does a person on the payroll have the employment records and activity you would expect?
- Vampire Expenses: Are personal purchases quietly draining organizational resources?
- Zombie Vendors: Why was a deactivated vendor brought back into use, and what payments followed?
- The Big Bad Wolf: Do repeated transactions just below an approval threshold warrant a closer look, regardless of who submitted them?
These are examples of investigative questions, not conclusions. Analytics can help identify patterns that deserve follow-up; the underlying records and context determine what those patterns mean.
James, Daniel, and Kendall will explore fraud clues in payments, vendors, and other everyday transactions, showing how financial forensics and fraud consulting professionals can dig beneath the numbers to decide where to investigate next.
Event details
Presentation: Skeletons in the Data: Digging Up Employee Fraud with Analytics
Host: NE Ohio Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: Sleepy Hollow Golf Course, 9445 Brecksville Rd., Brecksville, OH 44141
Audience: Anti-fraud professionals
Cost and registration deadline: $100 chapter members with early bird registration before October 14, 2026; $130 non-members
Registration: https://acfeneo.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=77&ts=1791297923
About the presenters
See How Aletheia Can Help
If questions about your organization’s transactions extend beyond the presentation, Aletheia Financial Forensics helps clients examine financial activity, investigate suspected fraud, and assess fraud risks. Explore Aletheia’s services to see where the firm’s work may fit your needs.
Dig Into the Data With Us
A payment may look routine until you compare it with other payments. A vendor may look familiar until you check when its account was reactivated. A name on a payroll report may raise a question that the report alone cannot answer.
That is the thinking behind Skeletons in the Data. James Rumph, Kendall Crosby, and Daniel Herb will explore how analytics can bring unusual patterns in payments, vendors, and other everyday transactions into view. Find out why those patterns call for investigation rather than an immediate conclusion. It is a fitting October topic for anti-fraud professionals: the most useful clues are often hiding in records everyone has seen before.
Register for Skeletons in the Data: The event time, cost, and registration deadline are https://acfeneo.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=77&ts=1791297923.
