Financial Forensics

Brothers. Business partners. Family. Then came the missing money, four murders, and two fires. For decades, Keith and Paul Caneiro appeared inseparable. They built businesses together, raised their families nearby, and shared a bond strengthened by a lifetime of trust. But by November 2018, that trust was collapsing. Keith had discovered troubling financial irregularities and was demanding answers. Hours later, he, his wife Jennifer, and their children, Jesse and Sophia, were found murdered at their Colts Neck home. The house had been set on fire. Earlier that same morning, another ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Behind every clean report, there is a number someone hoped no one would question. Nicholas Ashford built his reputation on precision, discipline, and control. Known in the financial world as the Paper King, he runs Ashford Capital with immaculate documents, flawless systems, and a public image no scandal has ever touched. Vivian Cole knows better than to trust a perfect ledger. As a forensic accountant, she has spent her career finding the story hidden beneath the numbers. When she uncovers an account that should not exist, she steps into a world of private money, internal fraud, offshore ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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-...

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 ...

Stop pleading for supply. Start commanding the ether. For centuries, the ancient parables have been misinterpreted as moral fables. In The Subconscious Liturgy, author Merrick Vane pulls back the veil, revealing that these scriptures are not religious dogma—they are Forensic Protocols for the human subconscious mind. If you have been struggling to break through financial blockades or mental limitations, you aren't lacking "faith"—you are lacking an operating system. This manual provides the technical blueprint to transition your subconscious from a state of scarcity to a state of ...

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 ...

The Victorian Economy Was Not a Monument to Trust. It Was an Algorithmic Exploit. Forget the charming myths of the gentleman thief. Step into the brutal, mechanical reality of 19th-century corporate extraction. The Victorian age is often remembered for railways, industry, and imperial power. But beneath the polished reputation of banks and gentlemen’s clubs, a handful of disciplined predators learned to read the financial system the way an engineer reads a blueprint. They did not need violence. They needed chemistry, patience, and a well-tailored coat. In The Victorian Syndicate: The ...

Previously published as Jane Knight Series Steamy Female Spy Thriller, Terrorism, International Spy Mystery, Romantic Action & Adventure Steamy romantic suspense terrorism thriller Book 1 Jane Knight Rogue Officer Desperate to shut down the supply chain before the next strike, Miles and his superior, Mary Johnson, fight to launch a covert, off-the-books agency dedicated to dismantling these corporate terror networks. But with zero government backing and a strict deadline from the Foreign Secretary, Miles needs more than just traditional espionage—he needs a brilliant mind who can trace ...

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 ...

This book challenges the illusion of precision that artificial intelligence often presents in financial investigation. It scrutinises the structural limitations of probabilistic models in audit and fraud detection, particularly when juxtaposed with forensic standards set by the ACFE. The result is a highly technical exploration of where algorithmic logic meets legal accountability. Designed for forensic accountants, auditors, compliance officers, and AI professionals, this text dissects the assumptions embedded in machine-generated outputs. Readers are guided through model behaviours, ...

The numbers don’t lie. The institution does. Sofia Dane is an elite undercover operative with a background in financial forensics, inserted deep inside a multinational humanitarian foundation suspected of covert financial activity. Her cover identity is meticulous. Her methodology is precise. Her operational philosophy is simple: discipline over emotion. Numbers do not lie. People do. Months into her assignment, Sofia uncovers an encrypted sub-ledger embedded inside the foundation’s legitimate grant distributions. The payment patterns match unsolved targeted killings across three ...

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. ...