Forensic Accountancy, 4th Edition

Author: Professor Benny K B Kwok
Publisher: LexisNexis Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789888864737
Published In: November 2024
Format: Paperback , 400 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Disclaimer:
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Forensic Accountancy (Fourth Edition) provides comprehensive insight into forensic accounting and demonstrates how accountants and finance professionals might perform when acting as advisors, experts or investigators in disputes, litigations, arbitrations or fraud investigations.

In this fourth edition, this definitive title sets a benchmark of best practices in forensic accounting and has been written in concise English, without the unnecessary use of jargon, catering to the needs of those less trained in the specialty and bridging the gap between accountants and legal practitioners. Auditors, bankers, insurers, regulators, litigators, in-house counsels and lay clients will find this book as a route to uncharted territory in accounting, revealing the unspoken messages behind transactions, fund flows and financial documents.

New standards, regulations and legislations have come into light since the third edition. Forensic Accountancy (Fourth Edition) has been completely updated and clarified, and includes a new chapter in money tracing bringing the total to twenty chapters systematically divided into three parts which comprise an overview of principles, brief illustrations of some case and possible applications to other areas.

Chapter 1 Insight Into Forensic Accountancy

Chapter 2 FORENSIC—Guiding Principles for Forensic Accountants

Chapter 3 Expert Opinion Pyramid

Chapter 4 Maintainable Profit

Chapter 5 Business Valuation for Litigation or Dispute Resolution Purposes

Chapter 6 Personal Injury, Medical Negligence and Fatal Accident

Chapter 7 Nature of Fraud and Anti-Fraud Measures

Chapter 8 Money Trail Investigation or Fund Tracing

Chapter 9 Land Resumption Disputes

Chapter 10 Business Interruption Losses

Chapter 11 Distribution Network Disputes

Chapter 12 Estimation of Trade Prices

Chapter 13 Cannibalism Effect—Application in Personal Injuries, Land Resumption Disputes and Website Valuation

Chapter 14 Loss of Use

Chapter 15 Securities Dealer in Liquidation

Chapter 16 Questionable Transactions and Fund Flows

Chapter 17 Quantum Assessment of Inventory Losses

Chapter 18 Investigative Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions

Chapter 19 Pre-employment Screening in Human Resource Management

Chapter 20 Handwriting Analysis

Benny K B Kwok

Professor Benny K B Kwok is a forensic accountant and an expert witness. Qualified more than three decades ago as Chartered Accountant in the UK and subsequently as a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong, Professor Kwok’s career has spanned private and public sectors in Hong Kong and the UK, and was awarded professional designations in affiliated fields of Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Tax Adviser, Chartered Construction Manager and Certified Fraud Examiner during 1990s and 2000s. Professor Kwok regularly produces expert reports in relation to accounting, commercial and financial matters, such as quantification of losses, tracing of fund flows, analysis of transactions and valuation of businesses. Professor Kwok has attended arbitration hearings, disciplinary proceedings as well as trials in Courts, on civil and criminal cases, as an expert witness to testify on his opinion and other associated evidence, and has also served as the single joint expert in civil proceedings under respective orders of Court. Professor Kwok has recently been appointed as an Adjunct Professor of the University of Hong Kong and as an independent non-executive director of a public company listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This book is among Professor Kwok’s other published titles in print worldwide.