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.
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Skimming, larceny, corruption, and fraud . . .
And how you can stop them!
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.
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.
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This Is the Textbook version of Corprate Fraud,
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This book is excellent and very readable. It is the textbook version of Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection by the same author which costs less. So unless you are using this in class or teach from it get the Corporate Fraud Handbook...it costs less. Either way you won't be sorry for having the book. It is worth it.
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Excellent overview of Fraud Examination,
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I needed this book for a required Forensic Accounting class at my college. I have to say, it was one of the more interesting textbooks I have ever read. This text incorporates a lot of case studies, which is interesting. The author is also extremely well known in his field, and his knowledge is very evident. I especially liked the way the text was organized, with an overview of the type of fraud, and then details about how the fraud is committed, and then a detail of what type of internal controls would have prevented or detected the fraud. Most chapters also have a list of computer tests you can run to detect fraud, which I imagine could be very helpful for the business owner/accountant. I think this text would be perfect for not only a college setting, but for anyone currently working in business that is worried about fraud in their organization.
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This was a required book for class. The book is well written, easy to understand and the chapter discussions reinforce the material studied. I plan on purchasing several other books on fraud by this author for my reference library as well as retaining this one.
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payroll register, employee master file, vendor master, procurement card, customer master file, wayside plant, route deposits, auditing standards, receiving log, financial statement schemes, cash larceny schemes, fraud theory approach, payee schemes, shell company schemes, multiple fraud schemes, expense reimbursement fraud, register disbursement schemes, check tampering schemes, noncash misappropriations, forged endorsement schemes, inventory larceny, expense reimbursement schemes, receivables skimming, ghost employee scheme, forged maker scheme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Fraud Survey, Percent of Cases, Crazy Eddie, Invoice Payment, Sales System Register, Title Category Description Data, Art Metal, All Employees, Invoice Sales Register, Linda Reed Collins, All Inventory, Jerry Harkanell, On-Hand Inventory, Paid Invoice, Coated Sales, Bailey Books, Harry D'Arcy, Eddie Antar, Sale System Register, Melissa Robinson, Shipment Register, All Locations, United States, Bob Walker, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Browse Sample Pages:
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payroll register, employee master file, vendor master, procurement card, customer master file, wayside plant, route deposits, auditing standards, receiving log, financial statement schemes, cash larceny schemes, fraud theory approach, payee schemes, shell company schemes, multiple fraud schemes, expense reimbursement fraud, register disbursement schemes, check tampering schemes, noncash misappropriations, forged endorsement schemes, inventory larceny, expense reimbursement schemes, receivables skimming, ghost employee scheme, forged maker scheme Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Fraud Survey, Percent of Cases, Crazy Eddie, Invoice Payment, Sales System Register, Title Category Description Data, Art Metal, All Employees, Invoice Sales Register, Linda Reed Collins, All Inventory, Jerry Harkanell, On-Hand Inventory, Paid Invoice, Coated Sales, Bailey Books, Harry D'Arcy, Eddie Antar, Sale System Register, Melissa Robinson, Shipment Register, All Locations, United States, Bob Walker, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Browse Sample Pages:
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