Financial statement fraud casebook : baking the ledgers and cooking the books / edited by Joseph T. Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Joseph, author.

Contributor:

Wells, Joseph T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Misleading financial statements.

Fraud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

FINANCIAL STATEMENT FRAUD CASEBOOK: BAKING THE LEDGERS AND COOKING THE BOOKS; Contents; Preface; 1 Keep On Trucking; 2 Too Good to Be True?; 3 Trust Us . . . We Wouldn't Lie to You; 4 Rotten from the Core; 5 The Broken Trust; 6 The Perfect Family Business; 7 Auditor's Loyalty; 8 Easy Come, Easy Go; 9 Organized Crime Is Not Just for the Usual Suspects; 10 The Spinster and the Investment; 11 This Might Sound Familiar . . .; 12 Pulling the Strings; 13 A Tale of Two Books; 14 The Family Man Behind Bars; 15 Net Capital Requirements; 16 Delaying the Inevitable

17 Power and Corruption in the Publishing Industry18 It Starts and Ends at the Top; 19 The Triple-Three; 20 What Is 1 + 1? What Do You Want It to Be?; 21 Take Two; 22 Wade's WMD; 23 Fraud Under the Sun; 24 Franklin County Contractors: A CASE OF CONCEALED LIABILITIES; 25 The Fall Man; 26 The Happy Life; 27 A Very Merry Fraud; 28 Missing Ingots; 29 When Silver Spoons Are Not Enough; 30 Sales Commission and Fraud Perpetration; 31 Like Two Sides of the Same Coin; 32 A President Illuminated; 33 Trouble in Tallahassee; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613176097

9781118077061

1118077067

9781119200994

1119200997

9781283176095

1283176092

9781118077047

1118077040

OCLC:

750173506