Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge. + Website

The definitive must-have guide for the forensic accounting professional Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge is the unique innovative and definitive guide and technical reference work for the financial forensics and/or forensic accounting professional including nearly 300 forensic tools techniques methods and methodologies apply to virtually all civil criminal and dispute matters. Many of the tools have never before been published. It defines the profession: The Art & Science of Investigating People & Money. It defines Forensic Operators: …financial forensics-capable personnel… possess unique and specific skills knowledge experience education training and integrity to function in the financial forensics discipline. It defines why: If you understand financial forensics you understand fraud but not vice versa by applying financial forensics to all aspects of the financial community. It contains a book-within-a-book Companion Section for financial valuation and litigation specialists. It defines foundational financial forensics/forensic accounting methodologies: FAIM Forensic Accounting Investigation Methodology ICE/SCORE CICO APD forensic lexicology and others. It contains a Reader Lookup Table that permits everyone in the financial community to immediately focus on the pertinent issues. This work is the only financial forensics/forensic accounting methodology also published by the United States Department of Justice. It redefines the standard for all dimensions of the financial forensics and forensic accounting profession and is written to address the entire financial community comprised of Originators (CFOs controllers accountants analysts etc.) Users (auditors valuators attorneys judges lenders investors internal auditors consumers bankers professors board members executives journalists etc.) and Regulators (civil including IRS IMF SEC; and criminal including FBI and state and local law enforcement; Interpol counterterrorism and military. Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge is: The only codified financial forensics/forensic accounting methodology known to exist; The only codified methodology comprising civil criminal and dispute methodologies within the same framework; The only codified methodology supported by optional Internet-based software that continually updates content with newly discovered and developed forensic tools techniques methods and methodologies and actual reports; The only codified methodology to contain actual report content (BLINDED) for many different forensic matters including alter ego damages fraud fraudulent transfer marital dissolution valuation etc.; The only codified methodology to contain a comprehensive Forensic Inventory of tools techniques methods and methodologies; The only codified methodology to address virtually every type of entity i.e. privately-held publicly-held governmental charitable NPO NGO etc.; The only codified methodology applicable to the US and global financial community; The only codified methodology that comprises an embedded training tool for beginning intermediate and advanced financial professionals; The only codified methodology suitable for immediate adoption as firm-wide and agency-wide best practices technical and training standards. The great majority of the content has not been previously assembled and published and duplication of other publications has been purposely avoided to prevent redundancy. The two principal authors have trained literally thousands within the financial community in various aspects of the content during the last several years. The attendees have included virtually all entity types including federal state and local government and law enforcement e.g. SEC FBI. The feedback has been universally positive and prompted the construction of this book. The contributing authors include public and private practice attorneys academics law enforcement and publicly-held and privately-held financial professionals. They are practitioners first and foremost and heavily experienced in instructional settings.

Hardcover: 560 pages

Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 6 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0470880856

ISBN-13: 978-0470880852

Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 1.6 x 10.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds