Financial Forensics + Website

ISBN-13: 9780470880852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 560 str.

Darrell D Dorrell

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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.

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Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

What Is a Methodology? 1

Why Was This Book Written? 4

How to Use This Book 10

About the Book s Website 10

How This Book Is Organized 11

PART ONE Financial Forensics Tools, Techniques, Methods, and Methodologies

CHAPTER 1 Foundational Phase 21

Assignment Development Stage 21

Scoping Stage 36

Conclusion 54

CHAPTER 2 Interpersonal Phase 55

Interviews and Interrogation Stage 56

Behavior Detection 62

Background Research Stage 73

Conclusion 77

CHAPTER 3 Data Collection and Analysis Phase: Part I 79

Data Collection Stage 79

Surveillance Stage 111

Confidential Informants Stage 114

Undercover Stage 117

Laboratory Analysis Stage 119

Confirmation Bias: Clinical Thinking 122

Aberrant Pattern Detection: What s the Difference? 131

Forensic Lexicology: How to Analyze Words Like Numbers 150

Conclusion 172

CHAPTER 4 Data Collection and Analysis Phase: Part II 173

Analysis of Transactions Stage 173

The Myth of Internal Control 175

Financial Statements Written Confessions 181

60–Second Method 185

Forensic Indices 204

Forensic Financial Analysis 212

Conclusion 252

CHAPTER 5 Data Collection and Analysis Phase: Part III 255

FSAT Financial Status Audit Techniques 255

Applying Digital Analysis Techniques in Financial

Forensics Investigations 270

Valuation & Forensics Why & How 287

Valuation s Orphan 294

Conclusion 314

CHAPTER 6 Trial and Reports Phase 315

Trial Preparation Stage 315

Testimony and Exhibits 318

Weapon (WPN) 320

Reports and Exhibits: Tips and Techniques 325

Post–Assignment 333

Conclusion 334

PART TWO Financial Forensics Special Topics

CHAPTER 7 Counterterrorism: Conventional Tools for Unconventional Warfare 337

Stop the Money Stop the Terrorists 337

Civil Tools Used by Federal Law Enforcement 338

The Civil Statutes as Counterterrorism Weapons 339

Why Use Civil Laws in Addition to Criminal Laws? 341

Discussion of Alter Ego 343

Alter Ego Literature 348

Alter Ego Jurisdictional Examples 358

The Challenges of Alter Ego Investigation 361

Fraudulent Transfer 372

Solvency 374

Forensic Accounting Techniques 378

Alter Ego, Fraudulent Conveyance, and Solvency Matters in Action 384

What Target–Rich Scenarios Can Be Exploited? 386

Forensic Accounting: Counterterrorism Weaponry 391

Financial Statements The Sources of Data 395

When Financial Statements Contain Laundered Money 403

When No Records Have Been Prepared by the Terrorist 408

Summary of Forensic Accounting Observations 413

A Forensic Accounting Methodology to Support Counterterrorism 415

Summary 421

Conclusion 423

CHAPTER 8 Civil versus Criminal Law Comparison 445

Comparison 457

What If You Suspect Embezzlement? The Three Big Don ts and Several Do s 457

Conclusion 469

Appendix Forensic Inventory: Forensic Tools, Techniques, Methods, and Methodologies 471

Bibliography 517

About the Authors and Contributors 521

Index 529

O autorze

DARRELL D. DORRELL, CPA, ABV, MBA, ASA, CVA, DABFA, CMA, is a principal and founding partner of financialforensics®. He is a nationally recognized expert witness, speaker, and author and has trained many organizations in twenty–four U.S. states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, including the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, SEC, Bankruptcy Bar Association, AICPA, NACVA, IMA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and thirteen state CPA societies. He authored nearly seventy technical articles in nearly two dozen professional journals and coauthored "Counterterrorism: Conventional Tools for Unconventional Warfare" and "Forensic Accounting: Counterterrorism Weaponry" for the U.S. Department of Justice.

GREGORY A. GADAWSKI, CPA/ABV, CFE, CIRA, CVA, is a principal and founding partner of financialforensics®, with over fifteen years of professional experience. He is a recognized expert witness in state and federal courts in both civil and criminal matters. He has contributed to several professional journals and coauthored "Counterterrorism: Conventional Tools for Unconventional Warfare" and "Forensic Accounting as Counterterrorism Weaponry" for the U.S. Department of Justice.

Blurb

The most definitive and comprehensive guide to financial forensics and forensic accounting known to exist

Presenting the first comprehensive and practical overview of civil, criminal, and dispute–related financial forensics and forensic accounting knowledge, Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge compiles more than 250 +/–forensic tools, techniques, methods, and methodologies. They are explained in detail so that you can assess the veracity of virtually any financial document from within or outside of an organization and persuasively support your position.

In this definitive single volume supplemented by Internet resources, authors and expert witnesses Darrell Dorrell and Gregory Gadawski disclose actual tools, techniques, methods, and methodologies deployed in scores of financial forensics assignments covering alter ego, bankruptcy, business valuation, damages, fraud, fraudulent transfer, lost profits, marital dissolution, shareholder oppression, solvency/insolvency, and much more.

Encompassing the contributions of sixteen seasoned financial forensics experts throughout the United States, Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge explains how to use:

• Articulated cash flow

• Behavior detection, including CICO

• Civil versus criminal law comparison

• CombatCPA©

• Confidential informants

• Data collection

• Forensic financial analysis

• Forensic operators

• LSAT

• MUA/Likert Scale

• Stop the money, stop the terrorists

• Surveillance

• Valuation and forensic techniques

• Writing persuasive reports with "WPN"

Twelve actual financial forensics reports, each covering a different topic, are available through a Wiley website for download and application. In addition, an optional subscription–based Internet–resident software application supports the methodology, with continual updates, enabling you to put information to use immediately and stay abreast of changes in the field.

Destined to redefine the profession, Financial Forensics Body of Knowledge fills the void in financial forensics training and education to help you combat financial deception, fraud, and terrorism.