Financial Forensics

Cole Blackwood knows how to read numbers better than most people read faces. Precise, controlled, and disciplined to the point of silence, Cole has built his position at Calloway Capital by trusting patterns, timing, and the truth hidden beneath the surface of financial statements. When accounting irregularities at Strathmore Data Services demand his attention, Edinburgh becomes more than a professional obligation. Because Daphne Whitmore is there. A forensic accountant with a mind as sharp as his own, Daphne has spent weeks inside Strathmore’s records, reading the expression in numbers ...

He stole her name. She's stealing his freedom. Rowan Delafield spent fifteen years as a forensic accountant hunting down fraud. She thought she left that life behind to raise a family. She was wrong. It starts with a single envelope: a bank statement for an account Rowan didn't open, holding six million dollars she didn't earn, authorized by a signature that looks exactly like hers. Then comes the knock at the door. Arrested at dawn and charged with federal embezzlement, Rowan realizes the terrifying truth: This wasn't a mistake. It was a frame job. Her husband, Cameron—a wealthy hedge ...

THE FINAL AUDIT IS HERE. AND THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS JUST BECAME INFINITE. Ethan Cole, the universe’s most dangerous auditor, has successfully turned the Seventh Realm into a sovereign powerhouse. But independence comes with a terrifying price tag: Expiration. Without the subsidies of the Central Bank, reality itself is beginning to dissolve into entropy. Enter Henderson—the entity formerly known as his boss, now revealed as "The Creditor." Henderson isn’t just looking for a payout. He has initiated a Controlled Bankruptcy protocol designed to wipe the cosmos clean, delete the ...

Master the art of financial investigation to expose corporate fraud and track concealed monetary deception. Perfect for your daily commute, this accessible guide transforms dry numbers into a high-stakes hunt for hidden assets. Learn to think like a corporate detective and spot the subtle red...

The Student's Handbook on Forensic Accounting - Fourth Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and professionals interested in the field of forensic accounting. This book is used as a reference book for many college and university courses on forensic accounting. This book covers the basics of forensic accounting, including fraud investigation techniques, legal considerations, and evidence gathering. The Fourth edition of this handbook includes updated content on topics such as digital forensics, cybercrime, and financial statement fraud. It also features case studies and real-world ...

Rosa Brennan knows when numbers are lying. The forensic auditor has spent eight years following money through shell companies, false directors, hidden accounts, and financial structures designed to survive scrutiny. Her latest assignment should be routine: six weeks in Moscow, three suspicious corporate structures, one final report. Then she finds the pattern. Dead directors. Active accounts. Transactions that should not exist. And someone already knows exactly how close she is getting. Besnik Flanagan advises powerful men from the shadows. He knows the financial network Rosa is uncovering ...

Want to be an auditor and need to hone your investigating skills? Look no further. This friendly guide gives you an easy-to-understand explanation of auditing - from gathering financial statements and accounting information to analyzing a client's financial position. Packed with examples, it gives you everything you need to ace an auditing course and begin a career today.

Who really owns the company behind the company? Shell Companies and Hidden Beneficial Owners provides a practical framework for understanding corporate secrecy, layered ownership, nominee arrangements and financial relationships behind legal entities. Written for finance professionals, auditors, accountants, compliance officers, investigators, lawyers and regulators, the book explains how formal ownership differs from economic ownership, effective control and ultimate financial benefit. The book examines shell companies, shelf companies, special purpose entities, holding companies, trusts, ...

Unlock the clandestine secrets of corporate crime with "White-Collar Crime," an indispensable guide that pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of fraud and financial deception. Dive deep into the myth of the respectable fraudster and discover the psychology that lurks behind the suit and tie. This compelling eBook dissects the mechanics of financial fraud, from overstated revenues and Ponzi schemes to insider trading, providing insight into how these crimes are orchestrated. "White-Collar Crime" takes you on a journey through the anatomy of embezzlement, revealing common traits of ...

Some cages are made of iron. Others are made of ink. Wren Alvarez has spent seven years weaponizing numbers. As a forensic financial investigator for the District Attorney, she has one single, desperate goal: uncover the leverage necessary to free her wrongfully convicted brother from a state penitentiary. When she is assigned to audit Voss Maritime Security-the legitimate front for Ironmoor’s most ruthless cartel family-Wren knows she is being handed a loaded gun. The corrupt municipal government wants a scapegoat for a massive harbor tax fraud, and they expect Wren to forge the nails ...

The first investigation exposed the money. Now Rosa Brennan has to uncover who was really controlling it. Months after her Moscow audit set international proceedings in motion, Rosa is pulled back into the case when a former financial analyst offers evidence that was never included in her original report. The new documents change everything. A second operational structure. A hidden Liechtenstein connection. An influential insider. And evidence suggesting someone has spent years ensuring the truth never survives long enough to reach a courtroom. Besnik Flanagan thought he understood the ...

Turning data into defensible fraud evidence is a specialist guide for fraud examiners, internal auditors, forensic accountants, compliance officers, legal advisers, and control professionals who need stronger ways to detect, assess, and present financial misconduct in digital environments. Modern fraud rarely appears as one obvious false invoice or one missing document. It often hides inside large transaction volumes, approval workflows, related-party structures, fragmented identities, circular payments, weak support files, and repeated low-value activity designed to avoid notice. Formal ...

Government General Accounting and the War on Waste unveils how trillions vanish from national budgets through elite collusion, offshore laundering, and systemic opacity — and how nations can stop it. Dr. Benoît Tano, MD PhD, combines decades of economic, medical, and functional systems expertise to build a complete accounting and recovery blueprint for the 21st century. Across 23 power-packed chapters, this book exposes the hidden mechanisms of fiscal theft from African ministries to global banks and lays out the Transparency Accounting Infrastructure (TAI) — a blockchain-enabled, AI-...

A missing $684,000 cargo. A rail switch with two birthdays. In the quiet corridors of global logistics, the cleanest paperwork hides the dirtiest gaps.When an intermodal container carrying 1,344 cases of premium, allocated bourbon vanishes from a rail interchange west of Worcester, independent trade analyst Cecil T. Wulfe is hired for a narrow records review. The scheduled drayage carrier was turned away at the gate under a "recovery hold," while a forged emergency release transferred the cargo to a shadowy recovery vendor.Miles away on the Berkshire Subdivision, a binding rail switch ...

The case was supposed to be closed. Vivian Cole helped expose the hidden account inside Ashford Capital, turning a buried fraud into a case strong enough for regulators, prosecutors, and law enforcement. Nicholas Ashford, the man known as the Paper King, finally had the documentation he needed to protect his firm, his clients, and the reputation he spent years building. Then Vivian finds something else. A live server session. A second trail. A new operation built from the ruins of the first. This time, the money is not simply being moved. Client data is being stolen, market positions are ...

Amazon KDP Description Three books. One criminal ecosystem. One definitive collection. The World Mafia Library: Omnibus Edition brings together the complete World Mafia S.p.A. trilogy into a single authoritative volume on organised crime, transnational criminal networks, migration, trafficking, corruption, and the global underground economy. Written by forensic criminologist Frank Paul E., this collection combines investigative reporting, academic research, field observations, intelligence analysis, and criminological theory to explain how modern criminal organisations operate across ...

Advanced Working Capital Diagnostics is a forensic finance guide for readers who need more than routine ratio analysis. This book examines how receivables, inventory, and payables expose weak earnings quality, hidden liquidity strain, distorted revenue, and operational misstatement. It is built around working capital as the core link between profit, cash flow, and business reality. Amazon KDP states that titles, descriptions, keywords, and categories are central metadata fields used to help readers discover books, so this text is written with search relevance in mind. The book shows how to ...

The engagement arrives the way they always do: quiet, careful, a single family trust and a respected bank and a question that should have a clean answer. It does not have a clean answer. What Aldridge and the firm pull from the first thread runs three decades deep, hidden behind an impeccable institutional face, and belongs to people who do not answer questions — they answer the people who ask them. The work is what it has always been: read carefully, tell the truth without cruelty, build on nothing you cannot prove. But this case asks more of that discipline than any the firm has taken. ...

AI, Excel VBA and Power BI in Forensic Accounting offers a rigorous and practical guide for professionals who need stronger methods for fraud detection, anomaly testing, confidential data review, and evidential financial analysis. The book addresses a growing reality in audit, compliance, investigations, and dispute support. Financial irregularities now move through digital systems, fragmented workflows, approval logs, dashboards, and structured and unstructured records. Traditional review techniques still matter, though they no longer provide enough speed, depth, or coverage when working ...

Four lives stolen on Halloween night. A decade of silence. And a paper trail that refused to stay buried. When four members of the Calloway family were brutally executed in their rural Anderson County home, the town was left reeling. The crime scene was an eerie study in calculated violence: no signs of forced entry, an unhurried walkthrough, and a staged discovery that threw law enforcement off the trail from day one. Stepdaughter Dana Merrick tearfully pleaded for answers on the evening news. Her husband, Wyatt—a stone-faced combat veteran—had an airtight gas-station alibi. With no ...