Financial Statement Fraud Casebook: Baking the Ledgers and Cooking the Books
- 7h 2m
- Joseph T. Wells
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2011
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.
About the Author
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.
In this Book
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Keep on Trucking
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Too Good to Be True?
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Trust Us…We Wouldn't Lie to You—Independently and Objectively Research Every New Client
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Rotten from the Core
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The Broken Trust
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The Perfect Family Business
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Auditor's Loyalty
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Easy Come, Easy Go
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Organized Crime is Not Just for the Usual Suspects
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The Spinster and the Investment
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This Might Sound Familiar…
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Pulling the Strings
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A Tale of Two Books
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The Family Man behind Bars
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Net Capital Requirements
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Delaying the Inevitable
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Power and Corruption in the Publishing Industry
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It Starts and Ends at the Top
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The Triple-Three
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What is 1 + 1? What Do You Want it to Be?
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Take Two
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Wade's WMD
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Fraud under the Sun—A Case Study of Account Manipulation in the Renewable Energy Sources Industry
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Franklin County Contractors—A Case of Concealed Liabilities
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The Fall Man
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The Happy Life
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A Very Merry Fraud
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Missing Ingots
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When Silver Spoons are Not Enough—A Case Study of Financial Statement Fraud
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Sales Commission and Fraud Perpetration—A Case Study of financial statement fraud for higher sales commission
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Like Two Sides of the Same Coin
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A President Illuminated
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Trouble in Tallahassee
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Glossary
