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 specialists.
It defines foundational financial forensics/forensic accounting
"methodologies" FAIM, 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 enforcement; Interpol, counterterrorism and military.
"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 enforcement, 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 enforcement, and publicly-held and
privately-held financial professionals. They are practitioners
first and foremost and heavily experienced in instructional
settings.