The successful frauditors casebook

Learn what works well and avoid the pitfalls in the real world of fraud detection and fraud investigation. This casebook reveals how frauds and fraudsters were discovered -- and delves into the investigations that followed. Each chapter covers a particular case, analyzing the factors that allowed fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tickner, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom John Wiley & Sons 2012
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The lessons worth learning from past mistakes
  • Cooking the books in NHS catering
  • NHS professionals: a better class of fraudster?
  • The 'nun on the run'
  • Charity begins at home
  • Robin Hood or Robbing Hood?
  • Bringing down the bank at Barings
  • The 'Laird of Tomintoul': and how to get the right to graze sheep at Scotland Yard
  • Corporate credit cards for cops: part II
  • Curiouser and curiouser
  • The men from the Ministry
  • The ghost, the guardian and the Galleria: internal fraud in local authorities
  • The heating contractor who was just a load of hot air
  • An outsourcing nightmare
  • Alarm bells should have been ringing out, loud and clear
  • Fun with works and maintenance in the police and the Ministry of Defence
  • Crazy Eddie wasn't so crazy after all
  • ZZZZ Best and Barrie Minkow: saint or sinner?
  • Firepower: a bitter pill to swallow
  • Recent scandals in the subcontinent
  • Can significant frauds be nipped in the bud?