Nigrini, Mark J.
Forensic analytics : methods and techniques for forensic accounting investigations / [electronic resource] Mark J. Nigrini. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 463 pages) : illustrations. - Wiley corporate F & A . - Wiley corporate F & A. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Using Access in Forensic Investigations -- Using Excel in Forensic Investigations -- Using PowerPoint in Forensic Presentations -- High₆Level Data Overview Tests -- Benford's Law: The Basics -- Benford's Law: Assessing Conformity -- Benford's Law: The Second₆Order and Summation Tests -- Benford's Law: The Number Duplication and Last₆Two Digits Tests -- Testing the Internal Diagnostics of Current Period and Prior Period Data -- Identifying Fraud Using the Largest Subsets and Largest Growth Tests -- Identifying Anomalies Using the Relative Size Factor Test -- Identifying Fraud Using Abnormal Duplications within Subsets -- Identifying Fraud Using Correlation -- Identifying Fraud Using Time₆Series Analysis -- Fraud Risk Assessments of Forensic Units -- Examples of Risk Scoring with Access Queries -- The Detection of Financial Statement Fraud -- Using Analytics on Purchasing Card Transactions -- References -- Index.
"The book will review and discuss (with Access and Excel examples) the methods and techniques that investigators can use to uncover anomalies in corporate and public sector data. These anomalies would include errors, biases, duplicates, number rounding, and omissions. The focus will be the detection of fraud, intentional errors, and unintentional errors using data analytics. Despite the quantitative and computing bias, the book will still be interesting to read with interesting vignettes and illustrations. Most chapters will be understandable by accountants and auditors that usually are lacking in the rigors of mathematics and statistics. The data interrogation methods are based on (a) known statistical techniques, and (b) the author's own published research in the field"--
9781118087633 1118087631 9781118087664 1118087666 9781118087688 1118087682 9781118386798 1118386795 1283176378 9781283176378
10.1002/9781118386798 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Forensic accounting.
Fraud.
Misleading financial statements.
Social Science.
LAW--Forensic Science.
Forensic accounting.
Fraud.
Misleading financial statements.
Betrug.
Rechnungslegung.
Wirtschaftsprüfung.
Electronic books.
HV6768 / .N54 2011eb
363.25/963
Forensic analytics : methods and techniques for forensic accounting investigations / [electronic resource] Mark J. Nigrini. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 463 pages) : illustrations. - Wiley corporate F & A . - Wiley corporate F & A. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Using Access in Forensic Investigations -- Using Excel in Forensic Investigations -- Using PowerPoint in Forensic Presentations -- High₆Level Data Overview Tests -- Benford's Law: The Basics -- Benford's Law: Assessing Conformity -- Benford's Law: The Second₆Order and Summation Tests -- Benford's Law: The Number Duplication and Last₆Two Digits Tests -- Testing the Internal Diagnostics of Current Period and Prior Period Data -- Identifying Fraud Using the Largest Subsets and Largest Growth Tests -- Identifying Anomalies Using the Relative Size Factor Test -- Identifying Fraud Using Abnormal Duplications within Subsets -- Identifying Fraud Using Correlation -- Identifying Fraud Using Time₆Series Analysis -- Fraud Risk Assessments of Forensic Units -- Examples of Risk Scoring with Access Queries -- The Detection of Financial Statement Fraud -- Using Analytics on Purchasing Card Transactions -- References -- Index.
"The book will review and discuss (with Access and Excel examples) the methods and techniques that investigators can use to uncover anomalies in corporate and public sector data. These anomalies would include errors, biases, duplicates, number rounding, and omissions. The focus will be the detection of fraud, intentional errors, and unintentional errors using data analytics. Despite the quantitative and computing bias, the book will still be interesting to read with interesting vignettes and illustrations. Most chapters will be understandable by accountants and auditors that usually are lacking in the rigors of mathematics and statistics. The data interrogation methods are based on (a) known statistical techniques, and (b) the author's own published research in the field"--
9781118087633 1118087631 9781118087664 1118087666 9781118087688 1118087682 9781118386798 1118386795 1283176378 9781283176378
10.1002/9781118386798 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Forensic accounting.
Fraud.
Misleading financial statements.
Social Science.
LAW--Forensic Science.
Forensic accounting.
Fraud.
Misleading financial statements.
Betrug.
Rechnungslegung.
Wirtschaftsprüfung.
Electronic books.
HV6768 / .N54 2011eb
363.25/963