Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert

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In the last twenty years, the need for a financial expert to act as a witness and consultant to litigating attorneys has grown even more than litigation itself. This handbook includes all aspects of litigation services, including current environments, the process itself, a wealth of cases, how to prove damages, and practical considerations of court appearances. It thoroughly covers the fine points of trial preparation and testimony presentation. Also, discussion is offered for understanding Sarbanes-Oxley rulings and fraud investigations. Accountants and attorneys working in litigation will benefit from this book.

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Financial Statement Fraud: Prevention and Detection

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Practical examples, sample reports, best practices and recommendations to help you deter, detect, and prevent financial statement fraud

Financial statement fraud (FSF) continues to be a major challenge for organizations worldwide. Financial Statement Fraud: Prevention and Detection, Second Edition is a superior reference providing you with an up-to-date understanding of financial statement fraud, including its deterrence, prevention, and early detection.

You will find

• A clear description of roles and responsibilities of all those involved in corporate governance and the financial reporting process to improve the quality, reliability and transparency of financial information.
• Sample reports, examples, and documents that promote a real-world understanding of incentives, opportunities, and rationalizations
• Emerging corporate governance reforms in the post-SOX era, including provisions of the SOX Act, global regulations and best practices, ethical considerations, and corporate governance principles
• Practical examples and real-world “how did this happen” discussions that provide valuable insight for corporate directors and executives, auditors, managers, supervisory personnel and other professionals saddled with anti-fraud responsibilities
• Expert advice from the author of Corporate Governance and Ethics and coauthor of the forthcoming Wiley textbook, White Collar Crime, Fraud Examination and Financial Forensics

Financial Statement Fraud, Second Edition contains recommendations from the SEC Advisory Committee to reduce the complexity of the financial reporting process and improving the quality of financial reports.

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The Audit Committee Handbook

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The Audit Committee Handbook,

Fifth Edition

The classic handbook to audit committee responsibilities—completely updated to cover the latest guidance with practical insights on the new functions of the audit committee.

Now containing the newest regulatory guidance impacting audit committees, including new chapters on audit oversight and updated discussions on fraud risk, the Fifth Edition helps your audit committee plan its agenda and achieve its mission in corporate governance.

The Audit Committee Handbook, Fifth Edition guides you to:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of the audit committee with a general update and reality check on auditing cycle activities
• Identify the developments that impact audit committee practices and the most current techniques and strategies for committee meetings
• Develop a repertoire of effective strategies to help the board of directors discharge its fiduciary responsibility to shareholders
• Prepare a periodic assessment of professional development activities and an informed review of both audit processes and financial reporting processes

A must-have for all audit committee members, board directors, corporate secretaries, CEOs, CFOs, and auditors involved in the accounting practices of their firms, The Audit Committee Handbook, Fifth Edition is the most authoritative work on audit committees in the marketplace.

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Corporate Governance-Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) Act and More

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he Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted by Congress in response to the major corporate, accounting and document destruction scandals that rocked the stock markets recently. To restore investor confidence, the act establishes a framework for corporate accountability, including strict new standards and penalties for violations in the areas of corporate governance, disclosures, audits, financial reporting and conflicts of interest. Although originally enacted only for public companies, the act is quickly becoming the “standard of care” for privately owned and not-for-profit companies, including health care organizations. The IRS and the Office of Inspector General are rapidly adopting the acts principles to raise the bar regarding corporate governance and management accountability, examining the independence of boards of directors, audit committees, the effectiveness of compliance programs for reporting information to management and directors, policies and procedures for document retention and destruction and treatment of whistleblowers in a company. This manual will review the act’s requirements and penalties, give practical solutions to assist in compliance with the act and the standards it has set for management and directors and examine the impact of the act on directors’ and officers’ liability insurance. In addition, this manual will provide attorneys with valuable information on the changes in ethical obligations due to Sarbanes-Oxley and their impact on the attorney client relationship. A special addition to this manual is the panel discussion by former government officials on effective responses to investigations in the era of heightened scrutiny of business practices.

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Oracle Privacy Security Auditing: Includes Federal Law Compliance with HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley & The Gramm Leach Bliley Act GLB

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Sharing secrets for the effective creation of auditing mechanisms for Health/Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) compliant Oracle systems, this book demonstrates how the HIPAA framework provides complete security access and auditing for Oracle database information. Complete details for using Oracle auditing features, including auditing from Oracle redo logs, using system-level triggers, and using Oracle9i fine-grained auditing (FGA) for auditing of the retrieval of sensitive information, are provided. Examples from all areas of auditing are covered and include working scripts and code snippets. Also discussed are the use of the Oracle9i LogMiner to retrieve audits of database updates and how to implement all Oracle system-level triggers for auditing, including DDL triggers, server error triggers, and login and logoff triggers.

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