Fight Against Fraud Dawn Brolin
$7,000,000,000 is a number that should be top of mind for every accounting professional in the United States. Why? Because this is the amount of money businesses, which make up the bulk of accounting firm clients, lose every year due to fraud. It’s a growing problem that Dawn Brolin, CPA, CFE, is committed to helping the accounting profession combat with the launch of FightAgainstFraud.com, a comprehensive online fraud prevention platform and mentoring community.
Brolin, who also operates her own firm, Powerful Accounting, LLC, designed Fight Against Fraud based on the best practices she developed after decades of working in forensic accounting and helping her own clients protect themselves from internal and external fraud. The online program, which can be found at FightAgainstFraud.com, is specifically designed for accounting professionals and includes practice management processes, client fraud prevention assessments and implementation plans, business and personal tax fraud support systems, as well as practice growth mentorship from Brolin.
“The areas of tax and occupational fraud are killing small businesses and as trusted advisors, it is our duty to offer a level of service to our business clients to help minimize the risks of fraud,” said Brolin. “Fraud prevention and management are services that unfortunately, will continue to grow, which is why now is the time for accounting professionals to educate themselves so they have the necessary tools to meet their clients’ needs.”
The Fight Against Fraud program features two membership levels:
1. Basic Membership which is free and gives accounting professionals access to:
- Exclusive fraudcasts (a weekly podcast hosted by Dawn Brolin)
- Discounts on monthly webinars
- Access to the basic fraud assessment
2. The Fraud Squad (mentorship level) membership gives accounting professionals access to advanced continuing education opportunities and branding as a Fraud Squad Member for $249 a month, in addition to:
- Exclusive Fraudcasts and monthly webinars
- Access to the Basic Fraud Assessment
- A continuing education planning program
- Unlimited Slack Q&A group discussion access
- Unlimited Slack Direct Message with Dawn Brolin
- A weekly group discussion on hot topics.
- Access to policies, procedures, and templates including practice management, case work templates, and more.
- Full access to the Fraud Prevention Program for Small Businesses (Coming in 2019). This program can also be white labelled by firms for use with clients.
All Fight Against Fraud members receive discounts on vetted technology solutions from the platform’s Fraud Prevention Partners including TSheets by QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks, Receipt Bank, ADP Payroll Processing, SmartVault, Skyline Cloud Services and CashFlowTool to support their fight against small business fraud.
“Having worked with small businesses for decades, I have seen first-hand the destruction that financial fraud can wreak on a business owner’s livelihood and their personal and professional well-being,” Brolin explained. “That’s why I am passionate about providing my accounting peers with the resources they need to further enhance their role as a trusted advisor to their small business clients while helping them prevent and recover from fraudulent activity.”