Fraud Examination

by W. Steve Albrecht

Updated and enhanced to help readers better understand the significance of fraud in the modern accounting world, this provocative text prepares readers to identify, detect, investigate, and prevent financial fraud. It outlines the nature of fraud and the different types of fraud, including the unique e-business fraud that is now possible in today's technological world. Chapter 6 offers expansive, cutting-edge instruction on the role of data analysis in fraud detection as well as two entire chapters on investigating theft and concealment This edition includes an all new chapter on consumer fraud, and Chapter 16 contains new material on tax fraud-providing students with unique insight into fraudulent tax reporting activities. End-of-chapter materials have been enhanced, and the Financial Statement Fraud Standards Appendix at the end of the text has been updated to include information about SAS 99 and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Genres: Textbooks, Accounting, Nonfiction

645 pages, Hardcover

First published July 30, 2002

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I give this 5 stars as far as textbooks go. Albrecht writes an exceptional clear, direct, and easily understandable textbook that happens to also be interesting to the non-expert. In a rare occurrence for textbook writers I would be happy to encounter their work again.

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the more readable accounting texts. I found the subject to be fairly common-sense based. Off to the final this afternoon.

[Eugene Gavrylenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not professional fraud fighter, just interested in. Book provides interesting statistical tricks to find outliers and life example of fraud. There are tests and the end of each chapter.

[V Narayanan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very Nuanced
However difficult to read

The columnar presentation makes it too difficult for me to read

[Kimberly Lacer]

Very interesting.

[Kai · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the chapters in the text can be very dry with too many technical terms.