Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts

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A must-have reference for every business professional, Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, Second Edition is a necessary tool for those interested in understanding how financial fraud occurs and what to do when you find or suspect it within your organization. With comprehensive coverage, it provides insightful advice on where an organization is most susceptible to fraud.

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Great intro for non-accounting professionals.......2007-10-01

No company can thrive without trusted employees, but some die because they trusted employees too much, allowing them to use their positions for illicit gain. The lesson: Trust but verify via accounting controls. Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts offers an effective primer on how financial fraud occurs, demonstrating the critical need for accounting controls. More important, the book lays out the fundamentals of forensic accounting and the fraud investigation process.

The book is an easy read, organized into two sections. Part 1 provides an overview of forensic accounting, illustrating the prevalence of accounting fraud across sectors, and in companies of all sizes. The authors offer real-world examples of trusted employees who betrayed that trust. In many cases, their employers never recovered from the fraud these bad actors perpetrated. This section may leave the reader suspicious of everyone in his or her company's accounting department, which might not be a bad thing, at least initially.

Part 2 constitutes the bulk of the book, which details how to investigate accounting improprieties. All of the required steps are detailed, from the investigative process and interviewing of witnesses to documentation, analysis tools, and more.

Whether you are a senior executive, a middle manager, an investigator, or a small business owner, Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts provides what you need to know to ensure that your organization is not brought to its knees by a criminal in the accounting department.

Great for non-accounting professional!.......2006-10-30

Howard Silverstone has performed well in describing clearly the major accounting cycles and the control points that need to be focused to reduce the possibility of fraud.

Interesting statistics on the characteristics of fraudsters are provided and methodologies used by forensic accountant and lawyers to build their case.

This book is great for non accounting professionals to have an insight on accounting environments but this book does not provide much value for experienced accounting professionals except if they were interested in how their counterpart in forensic accounting perform.

Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, 2d ed.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Accountancy

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Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, 2d ed.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Accountancy
Barbara J. Shildneck
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Title: Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation for Non-Experts, 2d ed.(Book review)
Author: Barbara J. Shildneck
Publication: Journal of Accountancy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 203 Issue: 1 Page: 75(2)

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The Microsoft® Office System is the most popular desktop suite of personal productivity tools and technologies. Because the Microsoft Office suite of tools is so comprehensive, it can be challenging for people in certain professions to understand how to use Office to perform tasks specific to their job. This book focuses on the tasks a personal financial advisor performs every day—rather than the all too common software-centric approach that many other technology books habitually adopt. Other Microsoft Office books on the market are often difficult to understand because they largely address an Information Technology (IT) audience, cover too many professions in a single book, or are so large (more than 800 pages) as to be overwhelming. This book was written with personal financial advisors in mind. In fact, this book was developed by consulting and interviewing industry experts, software trainers, technology experts, and of course, personal financial advisors. The author learned exactly which topics were most troublesome for personal financial advisors, and made sure to explain them thoroughly. This book covers the use of these Microsoft Office System products for personal financial advisors:

-Microsoft® Word 2003

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This book helps personal financial advisors cut through the hard stuff, and makes Microsoft Office work for them. The book comes with free bonus materials:

-Additional Financial Templates

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This digital document is an article from International Law Update, published by Transnational Law Associates on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1042 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In 5-to-4 vote, U.S. Supreme Court develops procedural framework for meeting due process standards with respect to removable aliens held in custody where government is having difficulty in finding nations willing to accept them.
Publication: International Law Update (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Transnational Law Associates
Volume: 7 Issue: 8 Page: ITEM03289003

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Ineffective assistance of counsel in parental-rights termination cases: the challenge for appellate courts.: An article from: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Ineffective assistance of counsel in parental-rights termination cases: the challenge for appellate courts.: An article from: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
Susan Calkins
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, published by University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 25355 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ineffective assistance of counsel in parental-rights termination cases: the challenge for appellate courts.
Author: Susan Calkins
Publication: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Page: 179(57)

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Relatives' rights to care for children: if parents can no longer care for their child and a relative wants to step in, should he or she become a foster ... is easy to achieve.: An article from: Trial

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Relatives' rights to care for children: if parents can no longer care for their child and a relative wants to step in, should he or she become a foster ... is easy to achieve.: An article from: Trial
Carolyn A. Kubitschek , and Darius Charney
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 5683 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Relatives' rights to care for children: if parents can no longer care for their child and a relative wants to step in, should he or she become a foster parent or seek legal custody? The relative must consider each option carefully and understand that neither goal is easy to achieve.
Author: Carolyn A. Kubitschek
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 13 Page: 20(9)

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A coursebook on the legal process for social workers

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A coursebook on the legal process for social workers
Enrique H Peña
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An Empirical determination of the competence of children to participate in child custody decision-making

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An Empirical determination of the competence of children to participate in child custody decision-making
Ellen Faye Greenberg
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Has the citizen of the United States, in the custody of the states' officers, upon accusation of crime against its laws, any immunity or right which may ... July 1st, 1905, by Judge Thomas G. Jones

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Has the citizen of the United States, in the custody of the states' officers, upon accusation of crime against its laws, any immunity or right which may ... July 1st, 1905, by Judge Thomas G. Jones
Thomas Goode Jones
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The hypocrisy of equality in a family law context

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The hypocrisy of equality in a family law context
Anne P Mitchell
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113 PAGE BOOK COMPILED WITH POETRY CONTRIBUTED BY COWBOYS AND FARMERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT REFLECT THE THEME OF FARMING AND THE FARMER AND LIVING AND WORKING ON THE LAND..

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The objective of the Springer Handbook of Enzymes is to provide in concise form data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence. Each volume comprises one enzyme class, sometimes the enzyme classes have to be divided into several volumes. Considerable progress has been made in enzymology since the publication of the first edition (published as "Enzyme Handbook): many enzymes are newly classified or reclassified. In the 2nd edition each entry is correlated with references and one or more source organisms. New datafields are created: "application" and "engineering" (for the properties of enzymes where the sequence has been changed). Altogether the amount of data has doubled so that the 2nd edition will consist of approx. 25 volumes. This collection is an indispensable source of information for researchers in biochemistry, biotechnology, organic and analytical chemistry, and food sciences.

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Quantum annealing employs quantum fluctuations in frustrated systems or networks to anneal the system down to its ground state, or more generally to its so-called minimum cost state. Often this procedure turns out to be more effective, in multivariable optimization problems, than its classical counterpart utilizing tunable thermal fluctuations. This volume is divided into three parts. Part I is an extensive tutorial introduction familiarizing the reader with the background material necessary to follow the core of the book. Part II gives a comprehensive account of the fundamentals and applications of the quantum annealing method, and Part III compares quantum annealing with other related optimization methods. This is the first book entirely devoted to quantum annealing and will be both an invaluable primer and guidebook for all advanced students and researchers in this important field.

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A practical new approach that brings together circuit theory and field theory for the practicing engineer
To put it frankly, the traditional education of most engineers and scientists leaves them often unprepared to handle many of the practical problems they encounter. The Fields of Electronics: Understanding Electronics Using Basic Physics offers a highly original correction to this state of affairs.
Most engineers learn circuit theory and field theory separately. Electromagnetic field theory is an important part of basic physics, but because it is a very mathematical subject, the connection to everyday problems is not emphasized. Circuit theory, on the other hand, is by its nature very practical. However, circuit theory cannot describe the nature of a facility, the interconnection of many pieces of hardware, or the power grid that interfaces each piece of hardware.
The Fields of Electronics offers a unique approach that brings the physics and the circuit theory together into a seamless whole for today's practicing engineers. With a clear focus on the real-world problems confronting the practitioner in the field, the book thoroughly details the principles that apply to:
* Capacitors, inductors, resistors, and transformers
* Utility power and circuit concepts
* Grounding and shielding
* Radiation
* Analog and digital signals
* Facilities and sites
Written with very little mathematics, and requiring only some background in electronics, this book provides an eminently useful new way to understand the subject of electronics that will simplify the work of every novice, experienced engineer, and scientist.

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The Fields of Electronics.......2003-03-11

This is a very helpful book for practicing electrical engineers. It discusses in detail the relationship between basic physics (particularly field theory) and electrical engineering, and shows how a knowledge of practical physics forms the basis for a complete understanding of electrical phenomena. This book fills a gap left by most college physics courses, which are too theoretical to be helpful with practical engineering problems. Five stars.

The Fields of Electronics.......2002-06-14

I really wanted to like this book. Truly. But it fails. Miserably. It does not represent a comprehensive approach to circuit and field theory. What I mean by this is that there is absolutely no method or application of field theory that provides insight into the quantitative design requirements of electronics to be found here. There is some solid construction advice concerning shielding and grounding, but this is probably better covered in the author's previous works. The numerous mistakes, not just typos, should have been caught in editing. The "fields" of schematic circuits... I wish they were laughable.
The graphics are not even good enough to make this pass as a good con job.

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This 1938 novel is off to a rollicking start when Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie Wooster help her dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century cow-creamer. Dahlia trumps Bertie's objections by threatening to sever his standing invitation to her house for lunch, an unthinkable prospect given Bertie's devotion to the cooking of her chef, Anatole. A web of complications grows as Bertie's pal Gussie Fink-Nottle asks for counseling in the matter of his impending marriage to Madeline Bassett. It seems Madeline isn't his only interest; Gussie also wants to study the effects of a full moon on the love life of newts. Added to the cast of eccentrics are Roderick Spode, leader of a fascist organization called the Saviors of Britain, who also wants that cow-creamer, and an unusual man of the cloth known as Rev. H. P. "Stinker" Pinker. As usual, butler Jeeves becomes a focal point for all the plots and ploys of these characters, and in the end only his cleverness can rescue Bertie from being arrested, lynched, and engaged by mistake!

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Audio Version Great Fun.......2007-08-03

The Code of the Woosters, by the inimitable P. G. Wodehouse, is a fun and enjoyable romp with Bertie Wooster and his Man Jeeves. This novel features numerous plotlines, including but not limited to, the battle over a cow creamer, a lost notebook, romantic entanglements, the theft of a policeman's helmet, a potential jail sentence for Bertie, a dictator, and more romantic entanglements. Each plotline is brought to a conclusion by the brilliance of "Plum" the excellent English humorist. The book is full of hilarious one liners and brilliant wit. Amazingly, this novel was first published in 1938, yet it is still full of timely situations.

This novel of classic comedy introduces us to Totleigh Towers and its owner, Sir Watkin Bassett. Several memorable mainstay characters are in this book including Gussie Fink-Nottle, Aunt Dahlia, Madeline Bassett, and Stiffy Bing. Any journey taken with Wooster and Jeeves is time well spent. This classic series endures because the characters are wonderful and memorable. A 5 star fun-filled romp.

In the best traditions of British humour .......2007-07-09

Hi, I'm glad to share my opinion on the book. It's very funny and entertaining. As far as I understand that's what classic British humor should sound like. I would highly recommend this book to everybody who likes this type of literature.

Drive carefully........2007-05-24

Be careful when you listen to this in the car! I laughed so hard at some passages that tears ran down my cheeks. I'm lucky that the oncoming drivers didn't use their cell phones to call for the men in the white coats.....

This reader is perfect for Wodehouse........2002-09-27

This tape, which our library has since lost or destroyed, is terrific. The reader, Jonathan Cecil, is amazing, entertaining and amusing, of course. After discovering this taped book I went on to read all of the Jeeves books, and I rented, borrowed or bought all the taped versions of this series read by Jonathan Cecil. Readers voices are a matter of taste but, for my money, this guy is the best.

Audio version just about perfect.......2001-02-26

There are very few novels that can guarantee five good laughs a page and chuckles during all the spaces between, but the Bertie Wooster/Jeeves novels of P.G. Wodehouse fill the bill. It is even jollier when a good British comedian simply reads the novel to you, as does Jonathan Cecil in the Audio Partners release of the 1938 (1-57270-182-X).

Here on 6 audiocassettes with a total running time of 7 hours is one of the stories you might have seen dramatized on Masterpiece Theatre a while ago. Oh, you know, the one about Bertie having to steal a cow-shaped creamer from Sir Watkyn Bassett for his Aunt Dahlia. Along the way, he becomes entangled in the on again, off again engagement between the newt-loving Gussie Fink-Nottle and the simpering Madeline Bassett, Roderick Spode who heads the Black Shorts (since all the Black Shirts have been bought up by an Italian of the period) and harbors a shameful secret), Stiffy Bynge who wants to marry the local clergyman H.P. "Stinker Pinker," and the local Constable whose helmet has been pinched.

The plot is simple at first and then, as in any good farce, rapidly accelerates into the complexity of a Baroque French clock and with about as much socially redeeming value. We simply sit back and marvel at the mechanism as (to carry on the analogy) Wodehouse's puppet-like characters perform their intricate movements around the hapless Bertie Wooster who not for the first time in these stories tends to lose faith in Jeeves just as that master of intrigue is at his brainiest. All this in the inimitable Wodehouse upper-class British twit jargon and a world every bit as real as that of Damon Runyon and W.S. Gilbert, providing you accept certain premises.

Jonathan Cecil was very badly miscast as Arthur Hastings in two or three Poirot films in which Peter Ustinov played the sleuth. Here he is a gem, reading as he does every word of the novel and acting out every character, male and female, in a different voice. His reading, Wodehouse's literary style and plotting, and all the rest made 7 hours on the exerciser pass pleasantly quickly.

Highly recommended even for more relaxed listeners.

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The Code of the Woosters (Unabridged)
P. G. Wodehouse
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