What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 …. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors …

Cover -- Forensic Accounting and Financial Statement Fraud, Volume II -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface …: Role of Forensic Accountants in Corporate Governance and in Detecting and Preventing Fraud -- Chapter 4: Challenges and …

Cover -- Forensic Accounting and Financial Statement Fraud, Volume I: Fundamentals of Forensic Accounting -- Contents …

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The role of shell entities in fraud and other financial crimes … from technology firms -- The impact of corruption on analyst coverage -- Financial fraud detection and big data analytics … - implications on auditors' use of fraud brainstorming session -- Corporate governance, European bank performance and the financial …

This book fills an essential gap in the existing literature by analyzing fraud, and the weakening of ethical relations … provides an in-depth analysis of fraud in its multiple facets, including financial fraud (most notably related to banking …), fiscal/tax fraud (tax compliance and the role of government in the process), and academic fraud (exams misconduct and …

Subprime lending and mortgage fraud spread rapidly throughout the United States financial services sector during the …, using diffusion theory as an interpretive framework, utilizes industry insider insights to examine how and why these … innovative lending and fraud strategies diffused so quickly and deeply throughout the housing industry. She also assesses the …