PDF-(BOOS)-Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations

Become the forensic analytics expert in your organization using effective and efficient data analysis tests to find anomalies biases and potential fraudthe updated new editionForensic Analytics reviews the methods and techniques that forensic accountants can use to detect intentional and unintentional errors fraud and biases This updated second edition shows accountants and auditors how analyzing their corporate or public sector data can highlight transactions balances or subsets of transactions or balances in need of attention These tests are made up of a set of initial highlevel overview tests followed by a series of more focused tests These focused tests use a variety of quantitative methods including Benfords Law outlier detection the detection of duplicates a comparison to benchmarks timeseries methods riskscoring and sometimes simply statistical logic The tests in the new edition include the newly developed vector variation score that quantifies the change in an array of data from one period to the next The goals of the tests are to either produce a small sample of suspicious transactions a small set of transaction groups or a risk score related to individual transactions or a group of itemsThe new edition includes over two hundred figures Each chapter where applicable includes one or more cases showing how the tests under discussion could have detected the fraud or anomalies The new edition also includes two chapters each describing multimilliondollar fraud schemes and the insights that can be learned from those examples These interesting realworld examples help to make the text accessible and understandable for accounting professionals and accounting students without rigorous backgrounds in mathematics and statistics Emphasizing practical applications the new edition shows how to use either Excel or Access to run these analytics tests The book also has some coverage on using Minitab IDEA R and Tableau to run forensicfocused tests The use of SAS and Power BI rounds out the software coverage The software screenshots use the latest versions of the software available at the time of writing This authoritative bookDescribes the use of statisticallybased techniques including Benfords Law descriptive statistics and the vector variation score to detect errors and anomalies Shows how to run most of the tests in Access and Excel and other data analysis software packages for a small sample of the tests Applies the tests under review in each chapter to the same purchasing card data from a government entity Includes interesting cases studies throughout that are linked to the tests being reviewed Includes two comprehensive case studies where data analytics could have detected the frauds before they reached multimilliondollar levels Includes a continuallyupdated companion website with the data sets used in the chapters the queries used in the chapters extra coverage of some topics or cases end of chapter questions and end of chapter cases Written by a prominent educator and researcher in forensic accounting and auditing the new edition of Forensic Analytics Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations is an essential resource for forensic accountants auditors comptrollers fraud investigators and graduate students. . . 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Agenda. Forensic Accounting Services Defined. Benefits of Forensic and Valuation Services (FVS) Section Membership. Overview of the Certified in Financial Forensics Credential.