Book description
A comprehensive look at financial statement fraud from the experts who actually investigated them
This collection of revealing case studies sheds clear insights into the dark corners of financial statement fraud.
Includes cases submitted by fraud examiners across industries and throughout the world
Fascinating cases hand-picked and edited by Joseph T. Wells, the founder and Chairman of the world's leading anti-fraud organization the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and author of Corporate Fraud Handbook
Outlines how each fraud was engineered, how it was investigated and how the perpetrators were brought to justice
Providing an insider's look at fraud, Financial Statement Fraud Casebook illuminates the combination of timing, teamwork and vision necessary to understand financial statement fraud and prevent it from happening in the first place.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Keep On Trucking
- Chapter 2: Too Good to Be True?
- Chapter 3: Trust Us . . . We Wouldn't Lie to You
- Chapter 4: Rotten from the Core
- Chapter 5: The Broken Trust
- Chapter 6: The Perfect Family Business
- Chapter 7: Auditor's Loyalty
- Chapter 8: Easy Come, Easy Go
- Chapter 9: Organized Crime Is Not Just for the Usual Suspects
- Chapter 10: The Spinster and the Investment
- Chapter 11: This Might Sound Familiar . . .
- Chapter 12: Pulling the Strings
- Chapter 13: A Tale of Two Books
- Chapter 14: The Family Man Behind Bars
- Chapter 15: Net Capital Requirements
- Chapter 16: Delaying the Inevitable
- Chapter 17: Power and Corruption in the Publishing Industry
- Chapter 18: It Starts and Ends at the Top
- Chapter 19: The Triple-Three
- Chapter 20: What Is 1 + 1? What Do You Want It to Be?
- Chapter 21: Take Two
- Chapter 22: Wade's WMD
- Chapter 23: Fraud Under the Sun
- Chapter 24: Franklin County Contractors: A Case of Concealed Liabilities
- Chapter 25: The Fall Man
- Chapter 26: The Happy Life
- Chapter 27: A Very Merry Fraud
- Chapter 28: Missing Ingots
- Chapter 29: When Silver Spoons Are Not Enough
- Chapter 30: Sales Commission and Fraud Perpetration
- Chapter 31: Like Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Chapter 32: A President Illuminated
- Chapter 33: Trouble in Tallahassee
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Financial Statement Fraud Casebook: Baking the Ledgers and Cooking the Books
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470934418
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