A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of moneyWritten for the private sector—where most money laundering takes place—this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly provides an understanding of the mechanisms, tools to detect issues, and action lists to recover hidden funds.Provides action-oriented material that will show how to de...

A fraud investigation is aimed at examining evidence to determine if a fraud occurred, how it happened, who was involved, and how much money was lost. Investigations occur in cases ranging from embezzlement, to falsification of financial statements, to suspicious insurance claims. Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide provides all the tools to conduct a fraud investigation, detailing when and how to investigate. This guide takes the professional from the point of opening an inve...

The Second Edition of The Essential Guide to Internal Auditing is a condensed version of the Handbook of Internal Auditing, Third Edition. It shows internal auditors and students in the field how to understand the audit context and how this context fits into the wider corporate agenda. The new context is set firmly within the corporate governance, risk management, and internal control arena. The new edition includes expanded coverage on risk management and is updated thro...

This one-of-a-kind collection consists of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive picture of the many types of computer fraud how they are investigated, across industries and throughout the world. Topics included are email fraud, on-line auction fraud, security breaches, counterfeiting, and others.

Follow the audit trail as presented to the IIA 42nd International Conference by the author. Guidelines on working paper organization are demonstrated to show the auditor "how to" efficiently document support for operational and effectiveness audit findings. The documenting effort by audit staff expends the major portion of the budget on these complex audits. Significant staff hour savings can be realized by using this ilustrative approach.

There is something wrong when internal audit plans are in effect "audit plans". Such "audit plans" result in fatally flawed internal auditing in organisations. This book introduces new methods of developing internal audit plans to efficiently and effectively determining appropriate priorities for internal audit activities that ensure equitable and full internal audit coverage in an organisation.

The external audit engagement planning methodology is the worst thing that can happen to an internal audit engagement. This book shows (a) what issues to address in opening meetings, how to develop (b) engagement objectives, (c) engagement scopes and (d) engagement work programs and how to allocate engagement resources. It explains the approvals required and why resources are allocated last.

The only book on the market specifically designed to help audit staff stay ahead of inspectorsThis comprehensive, practical, and theoretical guide covers the key ISAs that underpin audit methodologies and the recently revised ISAs that cause practitioners the most concern. It is designed to enhance auditors' understanding of critical ISAs, reducing their dependence on methodologies to mediate and explain ISA requirements. Using plenty of examples, the book helps au...

"1. What is the Expected value of the investment? 2. What is the probability that the investment will be worth less than the original investment? 3. What is the probability that the investment will have more than doubled (is greater or equal to $20,0000)? "

"Background Information, Cantaloupe Grocery Company Cantaloupe Grocery Company was started over seventy years ago by five families.  They opened their first grocery store in Raccoon Falls, Ohio and built the company to over seventy retail grocery stores.  In 2002 they had a labor dispute with the Commercial Workers Union and they franchised their retail stores.  Since then they have built their wholesale business where they now have 120 franchised retail stores.&...

"IT Auditing: Assuring Information Assets Protection" provides a proven approach to assessing IT security frameworks, architectures, methods, and techniques. In terms of content, this publication converts selected audit standards and guidelines into practical applications using detailed examples and conceptual graphics. This publication also allows auditors and security professionals to understand various steps and processes required to adequately initiate, document, and compile informatio...

Uncover hidden fraud and red flags using efficient data analyticsFraud Data Analytics Methodology addresses the need for clear, reliable fraud detection with a solid framework for a robust data analytic plan. By combining fraud risk assessment and fraud data analytics, you'll be able to better identify and respond to the risk of fraud in your audits. Proven techniques help you identify signs of fraud hidden deep within company databases, and strategic guid...