Synopsis
"Forensic accounting" is a growing area of practice in which the knowledge, skills and abilities of advanced accounting are combined with investigative expertise and applied to legal problems. Forensic accountants are often asked to provide litigation support where they are called on to give expert testimony about financial data and accounting activities. In other more proactive engagements, they probe situations using special investigative accounting skills and techniques. Some even see forensic accounting as practiced by skilled accounting specialists becoming part and parcel of most financial audits--an extra quality control step in the auditing process that will help reduce financial statement fraud. CCH's Forensic and Investigative Accounting (9th Edition) is a complete and readily teachable text on today's most timely accounting topics. Written by three top accounting and forensic teachers, this text covers all the important underpinnings, as well as the substance of forensic accounting. It covers both litigation support and investigative accounting, examining the practical aspects of these two areas, as well as many of the newer technological areas. Forensic and Investigative Accounting explains and demonstrates how an effective forensic accountant needs a solid understanding of accounting, investigative auditing techniques, criminology, and courtroom procedures, as well as excellent communications skills, both written and oral. In today's litigious and highly regulated climate, all accountants--external, internal, forensic consultants, and corporate accountants--must possess this knowledge base and develop these techniques. This intriguing text provides unparalleled guidance to help develop the mindset and the skillset to meet the evolving challenges facing accountants today. The 9th Edition includes new fraud schemes, numerous new eyewitness and spotlight stories, and new forensic techniques and tools, such as timeline analysis, link analysis, invigilation, genograms, proof of cash, entity charts, and full-and-false inclusion tests. This edition brings the reader up to date with the latest cybercrime activity and cases, and it documents the latest corruption schemes and explains how to find and prevent them.
About the Author
D. Larry Crumbley, Ph.D., CPA, MAFF, CRFAC, CFF, FCPA, RFI, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Accounting, Louisiana State University. He has published more than 375 articles in accounting journals and authored more than 65 books, including 13 educational novels, including The Big R: A Forensic Accounting Action Adventure and Trap Doors and Trojan Horses: An Auditing Action Adventure. He is the long-time editor of the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly (40 years) and founding editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting: Auditing, Fraud & Risk. Professor Crumbley was a member of the AICPA's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Services Subcommittee Fraud Task Force and was on the Fraud Deterrence Board of National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. He serves on the Advisory Board of the American Board of Forensic Accounting. He was the organizer of and first president of the Forensic & Investigative Accounting section in the AAA. He is the editor of the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting. Dr. Crumbley Is listed by the NACVA as an Industry Titans-- The Financial Consulting Profession's Most Influential. He has traveled to more than 140 countries and lectured in many of these countries. Edmund D. Fenton, Jr., DBA, CPA, CMA, CRFAC, CFF, is the Haile/US Bank Professor of Accounting in the Department of Accounting and Business Law at Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Fenton received his DBA degree in accounting and taxation from the University of Kentucky, and his M.B.A. from Murray State University. He has published numerous taxation and forensic accounting articles in such periodicals as the Journal of Accountancy, Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, The Tax Adviser, Taxes The Tax Magazine, Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, Oil Gas & Energy Quarterly, The Ohio CPA Journal, and the ABA Journal. He has written chapters in several professional resource books, including Handbook of Financial Management for Banks and The Handbook of Estate Planning. He is also a co-author of The Big R: A Forensic Accounting Action Adventure. Dr. Fenton is on the editorial board of the Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting, and has testified as an expert witness in business damage cases. Dr. Fenton has led eight study abroad trips for students in the business field, has held an adjunct teaching position at Liaoning University of Technology, and established a student/faculty exchange agreement with Vietnam National University - University of Economics & Law.
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