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<div>Northeastern Society of Orthodontists,
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<div>Prosperident is collaborating on an exciting new product soon to be launched. We are looking for quotable quotes about embezzlement that we can use, and we are offering some prizes for winning entries.</div>
<div>Finish the sentence below for and send your answer to <a href="mailto:requests@dentalembezzlement.com" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana,geneva,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #fff100; text-decoration: underline;">requests@dentalembezzlement.com</a>. </div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">By William Hiltz MBA CET<br></span></div>
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<div>I have been investigating frauds committed against general dentists and specialists for over a decade.</div>
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<div>Several years ago I was approached by a specialist at the trade show of a dental convention. He had attended my fraud presentation that day and wanted to talk. He regaled me with his determined effort to find the “smoking gun”, that irrefutable piece of evidence that would prove an employee was stealing. The specialist told me that he had spent over 80 hours self-investigating his practice. He detailed steps taken during this self-investigation and was confident that, after reviewing hundreds of transactions, his office was fraud free.</div>
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<div>I advised him that his conclusion may be wrong. In a confident way, he challenged me to show him why his self-investigation could be flawed. I think he believed he had handed me an impossible task, because he was expecting me to need to review financial reports, audit logs and computer data from his practice and all of that information was located several hundred miles away.</div>
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This article originally appeared in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>The Profitable Dentist</i></span>, Summer 2012, <a href="http://theprofitabledentist.com" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana,geneva,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #fff100; text-decoration: underline;">http://theprofitabledentist.com</a>
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<div>Listen to Dr. Mark Costes interviewing Prosperident Supervising Investigator Wendy Askins on embezzlement -- <a href="http://truedentalsuccess.com/blog/category/podcast/" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana,geneva,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: #fff100; text-decoration: underline;">click here</a></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Will security cameras covering my front desk stop embezzlement?<br></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">I get asked this question a lot when I am speaking to groups of dentists, so I decided to share the answer, and the reasons behind it, with you.</span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">I have seen some consultants advocate cameras to counter embezzlement; their arguments center around deterrence and increased possibility of detecting a thief. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">While I think front-desk cameras may be a good idea for other reasons (such as catching couriers who, finding your front desk unattended, take the opportunity to steal something), their impact on embezzlement is minimal. <br></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">The first thing I'll mention is that we deal with hundreds of embezzlement matters each year, and I can't remember a thief ever being caught on camera in one of our investigations, despite working in a number of offices where cameras were present.<br></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">I think there are two reasons why cameras are ineffective at stopping embezzlement. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;"><b>1. </b> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Monitoring is virtually impossible.</b></span> I've often said that cameras have value for events when the time of the event can be approximated. If a monitor is stolen from your reception area, it is possible to determine within a short time window when that took place, so it is easy to review video footage.<br></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;">However, embezzlement can happen at any time, so the amount of video to watch is huge. <span style="color: #000000;">If your office
is open for 35 hours per week, and you need two cameras to properly
cover the front desk activity, you are capturing 70 hours of video per
week. When are you going to watch it all? Even sped up by a factor of
5, you would need to devote 14 hours per week to watching this video,
which is a commitment that I'm pretty sure most dentists will not make.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">2. Thieves Adapt. If you have an undetected embezzlement taking place and you install cameras, a thief will plan how to continue embezzling without being caught on camera. And judging from what we see, they are very likely to succeed.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">So what does work in controlling embezzlement? Since the majority of embezzlers display at least two "embezzlement-like" behaviors, the best detection tool available is our Embezzlement Risk Assessment Questionnaire. You can get yours <a href="https://gum.co/ERAQ1" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;color:#a1410d;text-decoration:underline;">here</a>.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #000000;"><br><span style="color: #000000;">Thanks, as always for reading.</span></span></div>
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