Help your students understand the growing significance of fraud in today's accounting world as the latest edition of this engaging text teaches how to identify, detect, investigate, and prevent financial fraud. FRAUD EXAMINATION 4E closely examines the nature of fraud using memorable business examples and captivating actual fraud including recent developments in e-business fraud. Students explore how technology is increasingly involved in fraud and how it can be used to detect fraud as well as what the legal options are for victims of fraud. Significant new discussion of forensic analysis expands students' understanding of the field, while a fresh, clean design increases readability and student appeal. New learning features and strong end-of-chapter exercises draw attention to the most important information and drive critical thinking.
Key Features
- Proven end-of-chapter materials: Actual fraud cases drawn from first-hand experience providing intriguing opportunities to apply concepts, while additional end-of-chapter exercises offer helpful practice and review.
- Strong emphasis on fraud detection, prevention, and investigation: A variety of information on preventing, detecting, and investigating fraud examines the nature of fraud perpetrators and why they commit fraud. Students learn to recognize the warning signs that fraud may occur as well as how to use technology most effectively to search proactively for fraud.
- Authors' expertise in forensic accounting, fraud examination, and technology combines talents with innovative experts in fraud investigation technology to fill this edition with a wealth of intriguing cases and first-hand examples drawn from today's business.
New to this edition
- Discussions of recent fraud cases are used throughout the text including the Madoff Ponzi scheme (Chapter 15), Satyam financial statement fraud cases (Chapter 11), and firms involved in the subprime lending crisis (Chapter 11 e.g., Lehman Brothers) and others. New updates are also provided such as the third party company liability Enron case in Chapter 18 has been resolved since the last edition. The text is updated with the resolution of the fraud and how it impacts current fraud law.
- The latest types of fraud that exist today and explanations on the technology that is most effective in detecting these forms of fraud are included. Chapter 17 includes new cases and examples that represent new technologies such as cloud-based storage like Amazon S3 and application platforms like Google App Engine and Facebook are included. These technologies present new challenges to fraud detection and prevention that were not present in other editions. New cases help students familiar with mobile platforms and social networks see fraud from these perspectives.
- Improved readability and accessibility with new boxed features: Exciting new features, such as "Stop and Think," "Caution," and "Remember This" boxes emphasize important information for students and encourage readers to pause and consider the implications of chapter concepts.
- Chapter 10 incorporates recent research on using verbal and non-verbal indicators to detect deception.
- Chapter 11 includes updated statistical data from the recently released (May 2010) COSO study on financial statement fraud and builds on the prior edition by more fully discussing strategic reasoning.
- Chapter 12 includes more information on non-financial performance measures including a new table that lists several potential non-financial performance measures.
- New information on money laundering: Chapter 16: Bankruptcy, Divorce, and Tax Fraud are updated with the latest information on money laundering from the fraud field.
Contents
Part I: INTRODUCTION TO FRAUD.
- 1. The Nature of Fraud.
- 2. Who Commits Fraud and Why.
- 3. Fighting Fraud: An Overview.
Part II: FRAUD PREVENTION.
- 4. Preventing Fraud.
Part III: FRAUD DETECTION.
- 5. Recognizing the Symptoms of Fraud.
- 6. Data-Driven Fraud Detection
Part IV: FRAUD INVESTIGATION.
- 7. Investigating Theft Acts.
- 8. Investigating Concealment.
- 9. Conversion Investigation Methods.
- 10. Inquiry Methods and Fraud Reports.
Part V: MANAGEMENT FRAUD.
- 11. Financial Statement Fraud.
- 12. Revenue- and Inventory-Related Financial Statement Frauds.
- 13. Liability, Asset, and Inadequate Disclosure Frauds.
Part VI: OTHER TYPES OF FRAUD.
- 14. Fraud Against Organizations.
- 15. Consumer Fraud.
- 16. Bankruptcy, Divorce, and Tax Fraud.
- 17. e-Commerce Fraud.
Part VII: RESOLUTION OF FRAUD.
- 18. Legal Follow-Up.
- Appendix.
- Bibliography.
- Glossary.
About the authors
- W. Steve Albrecht is the Andersen Alumni Professor of Accountancy in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. He has done extensive research on business fraud and ethics, resulting in the publication of more than 100 articles in professional and academic journals, several awards, and having one of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners headquarters named after him. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from BYU and MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and Certified Fraud Examiner. Dr. Albrecht has consulted with numerous organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, the United Nations, FBI, and other organizations, and has been an expert witness in over 35 major fraud cases.
- Chad O. Albrecht, assistant professor at Utah State University, received his Ph.D. from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and currently teaches forensic accounting and ethics. His research focuses on international fraud and corruption from a humanistic perspective. His research articles have appeared in numerous journals and have been quoted in multiple news outlets. Previous to his doctoral studies, Dr. Albrecht worked as a licensed stockbroker for the Bank of Montreal. He currently serves as associate editor of Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, a peer-review journal by Emerald Publishing.
- Conan C. Albrecht, associate professor of Information Systems at Brigham Young University teaches enterprise development, middleware, and business programming. Albrecht researches computer-based fraud detection techniques, e-commerce platforms, and online group dynamics. He has published several articles on fraud detection and information theory in numerous academic and professional outlets. He is currently developing an open source framework for computer-based fraud detection. The core of this research is detectlets, which encodes background and detection information for specific fraud schemes. He hopes the system will eventually serve as the foundation of a large, online repository of detectlets about all types of fraud in the next few years.
- Mark F. Zimbelman is an accounting professor and Selvoy J. Boyer Fellow at Brigham Young University (BYU). He teaches classes on auditing and fraud examination and focuses his research exclusively on fraud. His research has been published in numerous academic journals and has worked with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors in writing various publications on fraud. Dr. Zimbelman received his CPA license and worked for more than six years as a financial statement auditor and, later, as a controller in industry. After obtaining his Ph.D. he worked with KPMG in their fraud and forensics practice. This opportunity provided hands-on experience investigating violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, financial statement fraud, vendor fraud, and embezzlement.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 696 pages
- Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 4 edition (February 2, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0538470844
- ISBN-13: 978-0538470841
- Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 1.1 x 10.1 inches
- List price: $187.99