Fraud Examination

by W. Steve Albrecht, Chad O. Albrecht, Conan C. Albrecht, et al.

Book Overview

This provocative text is designed to prepare readers to identify, detect, and prevent financial fraud. It outlines the nature of fraud and the different types of fraud, including the unique e-business... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1305079140
• ISBN13: 9781305079144
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Fraud Examination

I love this book! It is easy to read and very informative. At the end of each chapter, are assessments, case studies, and additional internet assignments. You cannot go wrong with this book if you are interested in fraud examination.

Easy to Read

This book was very easy to read. I liked all of the fraud "war stories" in the chapters.

brand new excellent book

very good price for a very good book. excellent new condition, very easy to read and understand.

Pretty Decent

The book is relatively well written with easily understood concepts. The massive amount of examples are tremendously helpful in bridging the gap between theoretical academics and real life fraud as well as making the reader think about fraud in different ways. For example, one case is about a normal inventory audit, except that the company was trying to pull a fast one by overstating their inventory. What the auditors did was to check the weight and size of the inventory that was on the books and compare it to the warehouse size and capacity of their forklifts. The two did not match as the warehouse was too small to fit all of the inventory and the weights of the products were far in excess of what a forklift could lift. The main issue and this was already brought up was redundancy. The book tends to do through out the book. I haven't quite figured it out if its meant to reinforce specific concepts or if their editor was just incompetent. The book is still useful for those who haven't taken audit and useful for those who have as it either lays some knowledge for audit courses or reinforces audit knowledge.

Great book for students in accounting.

As soon as I started reading this book, I had no problems keeping up with the assigned readings in my class. The examples of what people will do to decieve others and themselves are gut wrenching, but give a true picture of what people do. This book has made me consider specializing in fraud.