Wells Financial Statement Fraud Casebook

Baking the Ledgers and Cooking the Books
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-07704-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

A comprehensive look at financial statement fraud from theexperts who actually investigated them
This collection of revealing case studies sheds clear insightsinto the dark corners of financial statement fraud.
* Includes cases submitted by fraud examiners across industriesand throughout the world
* Fascinating cases hand-picked and edited by Joseph T. Wells,the founder and Chairman of the world's leading anti-fraudorganization ? the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)? and author of Corporate Fraud Handbook
* Outlines how each fraud was engineered, how it was investigatedand how the perpetrators were brought to justice
Providing an insider's look at fraud, Financial Statement FraudCasebook illuminates the combination of timing, teamwork and visionnecessary to understand financial statement fraud and prevent itfrom happening in the first place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Joseph T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Chapter 1 Keep On Trucking (Ralph Wilson).
Chapter 2 Too Good to Be True? (Carolyn Conn).
Chapter 3 Trust Us . . . We Wouldn't Lie to You(Stephen Pedneault).
Chapter 4 Rotten from the Core (Paul Pocalyko and ColleenVallen).
Chapter 5 The Broken Trust (Aaron Lau).
Chapter 6 The Perfect Family Business (AlejandroMorales).
Chapter 7 Auditor's Loyalty (Jyoti Khetarpal).
Chapter 8 Easy Come, Easy Go (Brad Mroski).
Chapter 9 Organized Crime Is Not Just for the Usual Suspects(David Shapiro).
Chapter 10 The Spinster and the Investment (EricSumners).
Chapter 11 This Might Sound Familiar . . . (James M.Brown).
Chapter 12 Pulling the Strings (Jay Dawdy).
Chapter 13 A Tale of Two Books (John Beard).
Chapter 14 The Family Man Behind Bars (Antonio IvanAguirre).
Chapter 15 Net Capital Requirements (Kevin G.Breard).
Chapter 16 Delaying the Inevitable (JoLynnRunolfson).
Chapter 17 Power and Corruption in the Publishing Industry(Kenneth Biddick).
Chapter 18 It Starts and Ends at the Top (KimiharuChatani).
Chapter 19 The Triple-Three (Leonard Rang'alaLari).
Chapter 20 What Is 1+ 1? What Do You Want It to Be? (RobertBarr).
Chapter 21 Take Two (Matthias Kopetzky).
Chapter 22 Wade's WMD (Michael Spindler).
Chapter 23 Fraud Under the Sun (Oscar HernandezHernandez).
Chapter 24 Franklin County Contractors: A Case of ConcealedLiabilities (Patricia A. Patrick).
Chapter 25 The Fall Man (Nearchos A. Ioannou).
Chapter 26 The Happy Life (Tamer Fouad Gheith).
Chapter 27 A Very Merry Fraud (Clive Tomes).
Chapter 28 Missing Ingots (Prabhat Kumar).
Chapter 29 When Silver Spoons Are Not Enough (Walter Paganoand Deborah Kovalik).
Chapter 30 Sales Commission and Fraud Perpetration (Tarek ElS.M. El Meaddawy).
Chapter 31 Like Two Sides of the Same Coin (PatrickWellens).
Chapter 32 A President Illuminated (Theodore G. Phelps andCindy Park).
Chapter 33 Trouble in Tallahassee (Dr. Tim Naddy).
Glossary.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. 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 Accountancy magazines, and 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, Dr. Wells has been inducted into the American Institute of CPAs Business and Industry Hall of Fame and named to Accounting Today's list of top 100 most influential people for nine years in a row.