The definitive, must-have guide for the forensic accounting
professional Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge is the unique,
innovative, and definitive guide and technical reference work for
the financial forensics and/or forensic accounting professional,
including nearly 300 forensic tools, techniques, methods and
methodologies apply to virtually all civil, criminal and dispute
matters. Many of the tools have never before been published.
It defines the profession: "The Art & Science of Investigating
People & Money."
It defines Forensic Operators: "…financial forensics-capable
personnel… possess unique and specific skills, knowledge,
experience, education, training, and integrity to function in the
financial forensics discipline."
It defines why: "If you understand financial forensics you
understand fraud, but not vice versa" by applying financial
forensics to all aspects of the financial community.
It contains a book-within-a-book Companion Section for financial
valuation and litigation spets.
It defines foundational financial forensics/forensic accounting
methodologies: F, Forensic Accounting Investigation
Methodology, ICE/SCORE, CICO, APD, forensic lexicology, and
others.
It contains a Reader Lookup Table that permits everyone in the
financial community to immediately focus on the pertinent issues.
This work is the only financial forensics/forensic accounting
methodology also published by the United States Department of
Justice. It redefines the standard for all dimensions of the
financial forensics and forensic accounting profession and is
written to address the entire financial community comprised of
Originators (CFOs, controllers, accountants, analysts, etc.),
Users (auditors, valuators, attorneys, judges, lenders,
investors, internal auditors, consumers, bankers, professors,
board members, executives, journalists, etc.), and Regulators
(civil, including IRS, IMF, SEC,; and criminal, including FBI and
state and local law ; Interpol, counterterrorism and
.
Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge is:
* The only codified financial forensics/forensic accounting
methodology known to exist;
* The only codified methodology comprising civil, criminal, and
dispute methodologies within the same framework;
* The only codified methodology supported by optional
Internet-based software that continually updates content with
newly discovered and developed forensic tools, techniques,
methods and methodologies, and actual reports;
* The only codified methodology to contain actual report content
(BLINDED) for many different forensic matters, including alter
ego, damages, fraud, fraudulent transfer, marital dissolution,
valuation, etc.;
* The only codified methodology to contain a comprehensive
Forensic Inventory of tools, techniques, methods and
methodologies;
* The only codified methodology to address virtually every type
of entity, i.e. privately-held, publicly-held, governmental,
charitable, NPO, NGO, etc.;
* The only codified methodology applicable to the US and global
financial community;
* The only codified methodology that comprises an embedded
training tool for beginning, intermediate and advanced financial
professionals;
* The only codified methodology suitable for immediate adoption
as firm-wide and agency-wide best practices technical and
training standards.
The great majority of the content has not been previously
assembled and published, and duplication of other publications
has been purposely avoided to prevent redundancy.
The two principal authors have trained literally thousands
within the financial community in various aspects of the content
during the last several years. The attendees have included
virtually all entity types, including federal, state and local
government and law , e.g. SEC, FBI. The feedback has
been universally positive and prompted the construction of this
book. The contributing authors include public and private
practice, attorneys, academics, law , and
publicly-held and privately-held financial professionals. They
are practitioners first and foremost and heavily experienced in
instructional settings.
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