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Book Description
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.
About the Author
W. Steve Albrecht is the Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management and Arthur Andersen Professor at Brigham Young University. Dr. Albrecht, a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor, and certified fraud examiner, came to BYU in 1977 after teaching at Stanford and at the University of Illinois. Earlier, he worked as a staff accountant for Deloitte & Touche. Prior to becoming associate dean of the Marriott School, Dr. Albrecht served for eight years as the director of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems at BYU. During that time, BYU?s undergraduate and graduate accounting programs were ranked 2nd and 3rd in the United States.Dr. Albrecht received a bachelor?s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He currently serves on the audit committees and boards of directors of three public and two private companies.
Dr. Albrecht is married to the former LeAnn Christiansen, and they have six children and six grandchildren. Chad O. Albrecht is the son of W. Steve Albrecht. He is just graduating from Brigham Young University and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in behavioral decision making. His interest in fraud began when he started attending seminars where is father was teaching about fraud. He has worked as a research assistant for his father writing and researching about fraud.
Fraud Examination,W. Steve Albrecht,Conan C. Albrecht,Chad O. Albrecht,South-Western College Pub,032430160X,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Forensic accounting,Fraud,Prevention,Business & Economics / Accounting / General
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