Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0470890460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Helpful for forensic testing using Excel and Access" according to Drake Mandrake. I found this to be a helpful book. The data analysis tests in Forensic Accounting can be used as high-level reasonableness tests to determine whether private or public sector data is free of fraud, errors or biases. While the tests can't guarantee that everything is clean and correct, they will detect the larger and more obvious errors. The author starts wit. Kurt S. Schulzke said Palantir stone for auditors & forensic accountants. No auditor or forensic accountant really knows the craft without absorbing Mark Nigrini's highly readable, entertaining and insightful tome, Forensic Analytics. The book's major contribution is a suite of mathematical tests dubbed the "Nigrini Cycle," an amazingly easy tool for quickly zeroing in on possible waste, fraud, and inefficiency in A/R, A/P, travel. Forensics for Purchasing Card Administrators Dr. Nigrini's book on forensic analytics is nothing short of amazing especially for those of us that haven't used statistics or analysis since high school or college. I'll admit that when I first received the book I was disappointed that there was only one chapter (18) that deals specifically with purchasing cards (PCards). However, as I began to read the bo
These tests are relevant to your organization, whether small or large, for profit, nonprofit, or government-related.Demonstrates how to use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint in a forensic settingExplores use of statistical techniques such as Benford's Law, descriptive statistics, correlation, and time-series analysis to detect fraud and errorsDiscusses the detection of financial statement fraud using various statistical approachesExplains how to score locations, agents, customers, or employees for fraud riskShows you how to become the data analytics expert in your organizationForensic Analytics shows how you can use Microsoft Access and Excel as your primary data interrogation tools to find exceptional, irregular, and anomalous records.. For each test, the original data is shown with the steps needed to get to the final result. The tests range from high-level data overviews to assess the reasonableness of data, to highly focused tests that give small samples of highly suspicious transactions. Discover how to detect fraud, biases, or errors in your data using Access or ExcelWith over 300 images, Forensic Analytics reviews and shows how twenty substantive and rigorous tests can be used to
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