The Successful Frauditor's Casebook
Coordonnateur : Tickner Peter
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 fraud to develop and assessing the effectiveness of the detection process and the resulting fraud investigation. Importantly, the casebook examines the steps taken by organizations to recover from the cost of fraud and the damage that fraud has caused.
- High-profile author, Peter Tickner, is well known in auditing and investigative circles
- Cases of fraud, drawn from the author's direct experience as well as world-wide, are supplemented with checklists and practical guidance on fraud detection
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
PART I SETTING THE SCENE 1
1 The lessons worth learning from past mistakes 3
PART II THE NHS 13
2 Cooking the books in NHS catering 15
3 NHS professionals—a better class of fraudster 25
PART III CHARITIES AND SCHOOLS 37
4 The ‘nun on the run’ 39
5 Charity begins at home 51
PART IV UK BANKING FRAUD 65
6 Robin Hood or Robbing Hood? 67
7 Bringing down the bank at Barrings 79
PART V UK POLICE INTERNAL FRAUD 91
8 The ‘Laird of Tomintoul’— and how to get the right to graze sheep at Scotland Yard 93
9 Corporate credit cards for cops—Part II 107
PART VI INTERNAL UK FRAUD 127
10 Curiouser and curiouser 129
PART VII GOVERNMENT 135
11 The men from the Ministry 137
12 The ghost, the guardian and the Galleria—internal fraud in local authorities 151
13 The heating contractor who was just a load of hot air 161
PART VIII UK POLICE AND MILITARY OUTSOURCING
AND PROCUREMENT 169
14 An outsourcing nightmare 171
15 Alarm bells should have been ringing out, loud and clear 191
16 Fun with works and maintenance in the police and the Ministry of Defence 215
PART IX US COMPANY FRAUD 233
17 Crazy Eddie wasn’t so crazy after all 235
18 ZZZZ Best and Barrie Minkow—saint or sinner 253
PART X MULTI-NATIONAL FRAUDSTERS 265
19 Firepower: a bitter pill to swallow 267
20 Recent scandals in the subcontinent 277
PART XI CONCLUDING THOUGHTS 289
21 Can significant frauds be nipped in the bud 291
Notes 297
Index 301
Date de parution : 05-2012
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