Sharon Rotherham B.A. (Hons) F.C.A. M.I.E.W. has had over 20 years’ experience in accountant, audit and tax matters with a wide variety of firms and their clients ranging from small to medium sized companies.

Sharon is a fellow chartered accountant and a director of Money Matters (Widnes) Ltd, a general accountancy practice. As an individual she undertakes assignments in forensic accounting. She is also a member of the institute of expert witnesses and assists solicitors, barristers and legal teams by giving expert opinion in matters involving the Thefts Acts, Fraud Acts, Companies Acts, Insolvency Act and Social Security Administration Acts as well as evasion of duty or tax, tax credit fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and common law offences, and related confiscation proceedings.

Sharon’s principal strength is employee theft. Her husband is a director of a large retail business in which she acts as Financial Controller and is responsible for internal controls and mitigating risk of employee and customer theft.

Over the last 18 years Sharon has dealt with dozens of employee theft cases and brought successful prosecutions against staff. She has studied the psychology behind employee theft and the various methods of theft from collusion to complex fraud.

Sharon has written magazine articles on the subject of employee theft and is consulted by others in the profession on the subject.