Add Christmas and the associated financial pressures into the mix, and I suspect this unfortunate trend of employee theft and fraud may continue into 2011.

Name suppression has been lifted for an accountant who fiddled a payroll system to give himself a $10,000 payrise.

How do you avoid "unpaid consulting"?

John Gray, the former accountant for collapsed finance company National Finance 2000 has been sentenced to 18 months prison for theft and false accounting. He was granted bail while he appeals his sentence.

The Ashburton-based auditor of Sth Canterbury Finance, Byron Pearson, has been censured and fined $38,000 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

The FBI is planning further raids on hedge funds suspected of involvement in an insider trading scam, as a three-year investigation enters its final stages, with prosecutors aiming to make arrests and lay charges within the next few weeks.

The SFO has laid eight charges against Malcolm David Mason and another individual over corrupt property transactions involving the ACC.

The possibility of a credit rating downgrade for NZ reflects global concerns, and is 'more of a warning' says Finance Minister Bill English.

I thought the "recruitment cowboys" had disappeared. Not the case.

In '86 we had America's Cup fever and a share boom, now we've got neither.

Auckland businessman Martyn Scott has been remanded in custody after today pleading guilty to stealing $1.4m from a family-owned company.

Financial confidence levels have dropped back to 2009 levels, says a new survey.