Episode 190: Becoming Your Own Forensic Accountant with Tracy Coenen

The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast

Kate Anthony

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.4 • 574 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tracy Coenen is a forensic accountant who has been investigating fraud for more than twenty-five years. This year she released the Divorce Money Guide to help people in the process of divorce take control of their finances.

In this episode, Tracy joins me for a conversation about becoming your own forensic accountant. Becoming your own forensic accountant helps you to gain agency, clarity, and understanding—and take back the power of your financial situation.

Show Highlights

Why you might need a forensic accountant: it all comes down to money shenanigans! (6:18)
Don't feel ashamed about anything that happened with marital money - figure out where you are today and take some control back (9:35)
What to do if your spouse refuses to answer questions about finances (12:04)
Get into gathering mode - gather all of the financial information you can (12:50)
Red flags that there might be something amiss with marital finances (15:32)
How to objectively assess any red flags you are seeing (19:36)
Taking agency and control over the finances in your marriage (22:48)
How to know when you need to hire a professional (32:32)
If you understand your money, you can get a better settlement in your divorce (35:09)

Learn more about Tracy Coenen:

Tracy has been investigating fraud for more than 25 years, but she didn't always want to be a forensic accountant. With a dream of one day being a prison warden, Tracy went to Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI to get a criminology degree. A class on financial crime investigations reminded her how much she loved Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid. She continued her criminology degree, but added accounting and economics courses so she could sit for the CPA exam… and here Tracy is, finding money in cases of corporate fraud, high net worth divorce, and other financial shenanigans.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go.
0:17.8	I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of
0:23.3	the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to
0:29.1	hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process
0:35.1	with your sanity and your heart intact. Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So we have a great, great interview today with Tracy Conan.
0:55.8	And Tracy is a forensic accountant who's been investigating fraud for more than 25 years.
1:04.3	This year she has released a product called The Divorce Money Guide, and it helps people who are in the process of divorce
1:12.3	be their own forensic accountants. So if you're sort of like, you know, wondering if your
1:21.7	spouse or soon-to-be-X might be hiding assets, but then you're also like, do I really want to drop, you know,
1:29.4	10 to 40 grand on a forensic accountant? Like, is it even, is it even worth it? Tracy's
1:34.7	divorce money guide helps you walk yourself through the process that a forensic accountant might
1:43.0	take for a fraction of the cost. And if you use the code
1:47.6	DSG, divorce survival guide, use the code DSG, she's offering $100 off. So that's pretty awesome.
1:59.2	Before we get to my conversation with Tracy, who I absolutely adore,
2:04.5	I wanted to tell you a few things about, I know I talk about it all the time, but about
2:11.1	grit and grace, I asked the women who are in it to just, like, what do you think so far? Tell me
2:16.6	what you think so far. And oh my God,
2:18.7	their responses, you guys? Just like, oh, blew me away. One of the women said joining grit and
2:28.1	grace was at this time in my life, one of the best decisions to help me through such a difficult time.
2:33.9	The group calls are amazing and the sense of community, sisterhood, validation, and support is
2:38.5	invaluable. Kate has been outstanding in her wisdom support and calling it out exactly how it is.
2:45.1	Come on, would you expect anything less for me?
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