Principles of Fraud Examination - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470128836 ISBN 13: 9780470128831

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008

Synopsis

A university edition of the Corporate Fraud Handbook, this book has been created to provide the most authoritative treatment available on Fraud Accounting. Like no other book on fraud, this book explains fraud schemes used by employees, owners, managers, and executives to defraud their customers and illustrates each scheme with real-life case studies submitted to the ACFE by actual fraud examiners who aided in the case resolutions. It shows the reader how to spot the "red flags" of fraud, how to comply with recent regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, and how to develop and implement effective preventative measures.

About this title

About the Author

JOSEPH T. WELLS, CPA, CFE, is the founder and Chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and a former adjunct professor of fraud examination at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes, researches, and lectures to business and professional groups on fraud-related issues and is frequently quoted in the media. He has won top writing awards from both Internal Auditor and the Journal of Accounting magazines, and he is a winner of the Innovation in Accounting Education Award presented by the American Accounting Association. For his landmark research in fraud detection and deterrence, Mr. Wells has been inducted into the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Business and Industry Hall of Fame and named to Accounting Today's list of top 100 most influential people for the last nine years in a row.

From the Back Cover

Skimming, larceny, corruption, and fraud . . .
And how you can stop them!

Call them the CSI experts of the financial world. Accountants play a central role in the detection and deterrence of fraud in all its notorious forms, and Joseph Wells Principles of Fraud Examination has become the go-to manual for students interested in the forensic side of accounting.

Written by the founder and Chairman of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Principles of Fraud Examination, Second Edition goes beyond the numbers to examine the complex human behaviors hard to identify and quantify factors, such as greed and deception that lead to fraud. A fascinating read, thanks to juicy real-life case studies and entertaining insights into the complex social factors behind fraudulent behavior, this book will give you a broad understanding of what fraud is, how it is committed, and how it can be prevented, detected, and resolved.

You ll learn how to:

• Spot and stop skimming; billing and payroll schemes; check tampering; expense reimbursement and register disbursement schemes; corruption; and more
• Understand financial statements and identify fraud
• Plan an investigation, collect evidence, interview witnesses, organize and analyze documentary evidence, and write a report

This new edition has been updated and expanded to reflect new and revised accounting standards and laws. It also features updated statistics from the 2006 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, reflecting the latest data on perpetrators, victims, costs, and methods of fraud schemes.

Will you win the glory of preventing the next Enron? Who knows? But armed with the knowledge and methodologies outlined in Principles of Fraud Examination, Second Edition, you will have the knowledge and methodologies to save companies and clients the cost and the agony of fraud.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470128836
• ISBN 13: 9780470128831
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Wells Joseph T.