Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations 1st Edition

Discover how to detect fraud, biases, or errors in your datausing Access or Excel

With over 300 images, Forensic Analytics reviews andshows how twenty substantive and rigorous tests can be used todetect fraud, errors, estimates, or biases in your data. For eachtest, the original data is shown with the steps needed to get tothe final result. The tests range from high-level data overviews toassess the reasonableness of data, to highly focused tests thatgive small samples of highly suspicious transactions. These testsare relevant to your organization, whether small or large, forprofit, nonprofit, or government-related.

• Demonstrates how to use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint in aforensic setting
• Explores use of statistical techniques such as Benford's Law,descriptive statistics, correlation, and time-series analysis todetect fraud and errors
• Discusses the detection of financial statement fraud usingvarious statistical approaches
• Explains how to score locations, agents, customers, oremployees for fraud risk
• Shows you how to become the data analytics expert in yourorganization

Forensic Analytics shows how you can use Microsoft Accessand Excel as your primary data interrogation tools to findexceptional, irregular, and anomalous records.