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Financial Statement Fraud Casebook

Financial Statement Fraud Casebook Baking the Ledgers and Cooking the Books

Author: Joseph T. Wells
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470934418
Published In: May 2011
Format: Hardback , 408 pages
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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.
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

Independently and Objectively Research Every New Client (Stephen Pedneault).

Chapter 4: Love Means Different Things to Different People (Bruce Flint).

Chapter 5: Rotten from the Core (Paul Pocalyko and Colleen Vallen).

Chapter 6: The Broken Trust (Aaron Lau).

Chapter 7: The Perfect Family Business (Alejandro Morales).

Chapter 8: Auditor's Loyalty (Jyoti Khetarpal).

Chapter 9: Title to come (Brad Mroski).

Chapter 10: Organized Crime Is not Just for the Usual Suspects (David Shapiro).

Chapter 11: The Spinster and the Investment (Eric Sumners).

Chapter 12: This Might Sound Familiar….(James M. Brown).

Chapter 13: Pulling the Strings (Jay Dawdy).

Chapter 14: A Tale of Two Books (John Beard).

Chapter 15: The Family Man Behind Bars (Antonio Ivan Aguirre).

Chapter 16: Net Capital Requirements (Kevin G. Breard).

Chapter 17: Delaying the Inevitable (JoLynn D. Runolfson).

Chapter 18: Power and Corruption in the Publishing Industry (Kenneth Biddick).

Chapter 19: It Starts and Ends at the Top (Kimiharu Chatani).

Chapter 20: The Triple-Three (Leonard Rang'ala Lari).

Chapter 21: What Is 1 + 1? What Do You Want It to Be? (Robert Barr).

Chapter 22: Sizler Investments (Matthias Kopetzky).

Chapter 23: Wade's WMD (Michael Spindler).

Chapter 24: Fraud Under the Sun: A Case Study of Account Manipulation in the Renewable Energy Sources Industry (Oscar Hernández Hernández).

Chapter 25: Franklin County Contractors: A Case of Concealed Liabilities (Patricia A. Patrick).

Chapter 26: The Fall Man (Nearchos A. Ioannou).

Chapter 27: The Happy Life (Tamer Fouad Gheith).

Chapter 28: A Very Merry Fraud (Clive Tomes).

Chapter 29: Missing Ingots (Prabhat Kumar).

Chapter 30: Title to come (Sarath K. Pakalapaty).

Chapter 31: When Silver Spoons Are Not Enough

A Case Study of Financial Statement Fraud (Walter Pagano and Deborah Kovalik).

Chapter 32: Sales Commission and Fraud Perpetration

A Case Study of financial statement fraud for higher sales commission

(Tarek El S.M. El Meaddawy).

Chapter 33: The Lee Brothers (Patrick Wellens).

Chapter 34: A President Illuminated

A Case Study in Financial Statement Fraud (Theodore G. Phelps and Cindy Park).

Chapter 35: Trouble in Tallahassee

A Case Study of Investment Fraud in the Internet Age (Dr. Tim Naddy, CPA, CFE, DBA (abd)).

Glossary.

Index.
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.