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Corporate Value of Enterprise Risk Management
The Next Step in Business Management
by Sim Segal
Part 3 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The ultimate guide to maximizing shareholder value through ERM
The first book to introduce an emerging approach synthesizing ERM and value-based management, Corporate Value of Enterprise Risk Management clarifies ERM as a strategic business management
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Accounting for Real Estate Transactions
A Guide For Public Accountants and Corporate Financial Professionals
by Maria K. Davis
Part 4 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
“Accounting for Real Estate Transactions”, is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference guide, specifically written to help professionals understand and apply the accounting rules relating to real estate transactions. This book provides financial professionals with a powerful tool to evaluate the accounting consequences of specific deals, enabling them to structure transactions with the accounting consequences in mind, and to account for them in accordance with US GAAP. Accountants and auditors are provided with major concepts, clear and concise explanations of real estate accounting rules, detailed applications of US GAAP, flowcharts, and exhaustive cross-references of the authoritative literature.
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Practical M&A Execution and Integration
A Step by Step Guide To Successful Strategy, Risk and Integration Management
by Michael R. Mcgrath
Part 5 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Few business activities can match Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in terms of the potential for reward and for danger. A successful merger or acquisition can allow a mid-tier company to leap into the top tier, bringing rich rewards to that company, and its employees and shareholders. The failure of a merger can, on the other hand, have a devastating impact, resulting a loss of credibility, destruction of value and in some cases bringing the parties to ruin. Depending on how you measure it, between 50% and 80% of M&A deals fail to attain their objectives, before or even after the deal is done. Practical M&A Execution and Integration is all about maximising your chances of success.
Merging, de-merging, acquiring or acquired, if your organisation is involved, or likely to be involved, you will need to manage the process, and following this Handbook will give you a clear, simple framework to get the job done and help your organisation move on and attain the benefits and promise of the deal.
The book covers the following core topics:
• Fundamentals of M&A, the reasons for M&A, types of M&A deals and the challenges they present
• M&A Regulation
• Successful M&A, covering M&A power and providing a detailed look at the processes and people involved
• Delivering M&A
• The unique issues of Banking M&A, which differs significantly from other types of M&A deals.
The final section consists of document templates and suggested tables of contents which are designed to be used alongside the advice in the book, thus making Practical M&A Execution and Integration the complete guide to constructing a successful M&A deal.
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Frequently Asked Questions in Anti-Bribery and Corruption
by David Lawler
Part 7 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
A practical guide to addressing the challenges managers face in implementing and enforcing new anti-bribery regulations
The Bribery Act became the law of the land in July 2011. It abolished all existing U.K. anti-bribery laws and replaced them with a suite of new regulations decidedly different and more strenuous than what has come before. Under it companies found noncompliant will be open to billions in penalties and remediation costs, and managers will be open to prosecution if anyone associated with their company commits an offence covered by the act. As employees in nearly all departments will share responsibility for ensuring that adequate procedures are in place and enforced, there is a screaming need for practical, jargon-free guidance on the subject. This book fills that need. It arms managers and advisors with the knowledge and tools they need to implement, communicate and test controls and procedures that not only comply with but exceed the new anti-bribery requirements. It also offers priceless pointers on how to effectively react to bribery allegations if and when they occur.
• Packed with takeaway tips and checklists that put crucial information at readers' fingertips
• Written by a chartered accountant and compliance expert, the book offers practical steps managers should take to guarantee company compliance
• Describes best practices in anti-bribery and corruption compliance in all key business areas, including accounting, sales and marketing, management, legal, and internal auditing.
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Cost Reduction Analysis
Tools and Strategies
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 7 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Discover the power of the CFO's role in delivering shareholder value.
During the past decade, the CFO role has expanded dramatically in its breadth, complexity, and criticality. Filled with proven strategies, best practices, and keen insights, “The Essential CFO” describes how today's CFOs are responding to their expanded roles within both public and private companies. With straightforward and pragmatic guidance, author Bruce Nolop shows how CFOs are partnering with CEOs to deliver shareholder value by articulating a strategic plan, determining capital allocations, managing the capital structure, driving financial performance, and implementing strategic transactions.
• Covers how CFOs are establishing robust accounting and risk management processes and effectively communicating with both external and internal constituencies
• Looks at the role of the CFO in transforming financial organizations to drive effectiveness and efficiencies
• Examines how CFOs can develop talent with the experience, expertise, and leadership skills to meet the challenges of the future
Written from a balanced, top-down perspective of the modern CFO, “The Essential CFO” provides you with practical prescriptions for executing impactful corporate finance strategies.
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook
Protecting Your Organization from Bribery and Corruption
by Martin T. Biegelman
Part 8 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
“Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook” shows readers how the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has grown to critical importance to any U.S. company that does business in a global environment, as well as foreign companies that supply or have agency agreements with U.S. companies. It provides an overview of the business risks and guidance on spotting potential red flags regarding FCPA violation. Business professionals are provided with practical guidance on managing FCPA requirements as part of an overall compliance program.
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Running an Effective Investor Relations Department
A Comprehensive Guide
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 9 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The ultimate guide to investor relations
Your one-stop resource for everything pertaining to your company's dealings with the investment community, Running an Effective Investor Relations Department provides investor relations professionals with essential day-to-day information. From creating and properly communicating a company's investment story, to dealing with both the sell side and buy side of the investment community, to providing guidance, and the form and frequency of that guidance, this authoritative resource covers it all.
• Addresses every possible area of the investor relations profession
• Includes chapters covering disclosure, forward-looking statements, guidance, event management, and twenty other topics
• Other titles by Bragg: The Vest Pocket Controller, Accounting Best Practices, Sixth Edition, and Just-in-Time Accounting, Third Edition
Practical and thorough, this book offers the world-class guidance you need to effectively manage your investor relations department.
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Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting
by Tommie W. Singleton
Part 11 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
FRAUD AUDITING AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING
With the responsibility of detecting and preventing fraud falling heavily on the accounting profession, every accountant needs to recognize fraud and learn the tools and strategies necessary to catch it in time. Providing valuable information to those responsible for dealing with prevention and discovery of financial deception, Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting, Fourth Edition helps accountants develop an investigative eye toward both internal and external fraud and provides tips for coping with fraud when it is found to have occurred.
Completely updated and revised, the new edition presents:
• Brand-new chapters devoted to fraud response as well as to the physiological aspects of the fraudster
• A closer look at how forensic accountants get their job done
• More about Computer-Assisted Audit Tools (CAATs) and digital forensics
• Technological aspects of fraud auditing and forensic accounting
• Extended discussion on fraud schemes
• Case studies demonstrating industry-tested methods for dealing with fraud, all drawn from a wide variety of actual incidents
Inside this book, you will find step-by-step keys to fraud investigation and the most current methods for dealing with financial fraud within your organization. Written by recognized experts in the field of white-collar crime, this Fourth Edition provides you, whether you are a beginning forensic accountant or an experienced investigator, with industry-tested methods for detecting, investigating, and preventing financial schemes.
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IT Audit, Control, and Security
by Robert R. Moeller
Part 13 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
When it comes to computer security, the role of auditors today has never been more crucial. Auditors must ensure that all computers, in particular those dealing with e-business, are secure. The only source for information on the combined areas of computer audit, control, and security, the IT Audit, Control, and Security describes the types of internal controls, security, and integrity procedures that management must build into its automated systems. This very timely book provides auditors with the guidance they need to ensure that their systems are secure from both internal and external threats.
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Financial Services Firms
Governance, Regulations, Valuations, Mergers, and Acquisitions
by Zabihollah Rezaee
Part 14 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Indispensable coverage of new federal regulatory reforms and federal financial issues
An essential guide covering new federal regulatory reforms and federal financial issues
“Financial Institutions, Valuations, Mergers and Acquisitions”, Third Edition presents a new regulatory framework for financial institutions in the post-bailout era.
• Provides valuable guidance to assess risks, measure performance and conduct valuations processes to create shareholder value
• Covers the protection of other stakeholders, including customers, regulators, government, and consumers
• Offers an up-to-date understanding of financial institutions, their challenges, and their opportunities in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era
Over the past decade, substantial changes have taken place in the structure and range of products and services provided by the financial services industry. Get current coverage of these changes that have transformed both traditional organizations such as banks, thrifts, and insurance companies, as well as securities providers, asset management companies and financial holding companies with the up-to-the-minute coverage found in Financial Institutions, Valuations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Third Edition.
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The Fraud Audit
Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems
by Leonard W. Vona
Part 16 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Essential guidance for creation of an effective fraud audit program in core business systems
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has reported that U.S. businesses lose up to $4 billion annually due to fraud and abuse. Discover fraud within your business before yours becomes another business fraud statistic. The Fraud Audit provides a proven fraud methodology that allows auditors to discover fraud versus investigating it.
• Explains how to create a fraud audit program
• Shows auditors how to locate fraud through the use of data mining
• Focuses on a proven methodology that has actually detected fraudulent transactions
Take a look inside for essential guidance for fraud discovery within specific corporate F&A functions, such as disbursement, procurement, payroll, revenue misstatement, inventory, journal entries, and management override.
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Treasury Management
The Practitioner's Guide
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 17 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
TREASURY MANAGEMENT
The Practitioner's Guide
Treasury Management: The Practitioner's Guide describes all aspects of the treasury function. This comprehensive book includes chapters covering the treasury department, cash transfer methods, cash forecasting, cash concentration, working capital management, debt management, equity management, investment management, foreign exchange risk management, interest risk management, clearing and settlement systems, and treasury systems.
If you are a treasurer, CFO, cash manager, or controller, Treasury Management: The Practitioner's Guide allows you to quickly grasp the real world of treasury management and the many practical and strategic issues faced by treasurers and financial professionals today.
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Auditing Cloud Computing
A Security and Privacy Guide
by Ben Halpert
Part 21 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The auditor's guide to ensuring correct security and privacy practices in a cloud computing environment
Many organizations are reporting or projecting a significant cost savings through the use of cloud computing-utilizing shared computing resources to provide ubiquitous access for organizations and end users. Just as many organizations, however, are expressing concern with security and privacy issues for their organization's data in the "cloud." Auditing Cloud Computing provides necessary guidance to build a proper audit to ensure operational integrity and customer data protection, among other aspects, are addressed for cloud-based resources.
• Provides necessary guidance to ensure auditors address security and privacy aspects that through a proper audit can provide a specified level of assurance for an organization's resources
• Reveals effective methods for evaluating the security and privacy practices of cloud services
• A cloud computing reference for auditors and IT security professionals, as well as those preparing for certification credentials, such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Timely and practical, Auditing Cloud Computing expertly provides information to assist in preparing for an audit addressing cloud computing security and privacy for both businesses and cloud-based service providers.
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Supply Chain as Strategic Asset
The Key to Reaching Business Goals
by Vivek Sehgal
Part 22 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages through strategy realization
How can your supply chain create competitive advantages and help achieve business goals? Drawing from the author's abundant research and analysis, this resourceful book shows how aligning the supply chain design with business strategy helps build competitive capabilities, prioritize capital investments, and takes your firm beyond the industry best-practices to create competitive advantages, not just competitive parity. Summarizing the current literature on business and supply chain strategies, this book provides path-breaking new direction to build your own winning supply chain strategy. Real-life cases show how this strategy alignment has produced results for the most successful companies and how it can be achieved in your firm.
• An overview of the concepts of business strategy, the current thinking on supply chain strategy and why it is inadequate to drive competitive advantage through supply chain design
• Process for establishing your own supply chain strategy to build competitive advantage
• The place of technology in creating business capabilities in modern corporations and why managing technology should be a core competence and an integral part of strategy planning
• Step-by-step direction and examples for creating strategy alignment and designing a supply chain that goes beyond supporting your operations
• Case studies including Wal-mart, Cemex, Kmart, HP, Dell, and others
Consolidating the lessons learned along with implementation guidance, Supply Chain as Strategic Asset is the must-read road map for designing a supply chain that will be vital in achieving your business goals.
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The New Accounts Payable Toolkit
by Christine H. Doxey
Part 400 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
In “The New Accounts Payable Toolkit”, accomplished entrepreneur, consultant, and finance expert Christine H. Doxey delivers a unique and powerful approach to the accounts payable process and discusses the impact of the automation of the Procure to Pay (P2P) process. The toolkit explores all aspects of the accounts payable process, from the establishment of the contract and the purchase order to the supplier validation process, invoice processing and payment, accounting, and fiscal close.
You'll learn the key metrics and analytics needed for the accounts payable process. This comprehensive toolkit provides the best practices, tools, and internal controls that can help safeguard your company's cash and other assets. You'll obtain a variety of tools to create the foundation required for current internal controls and compliance to ensure that suppliers are correctly validated in the supplier master file to maintain regulatory compliance.
Avoid paying fraudulent or inaccurate invoices and avoid paying a supplier's invoice more than once. Be certain that all supplier invoices are properly accounted for to ensure an accurate fiscal close. Finally, stay up to date with all current and coming trends in the accounts payable process, including eInvoicing, ePayment, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and eAccounting.
“The New Accounts Payable Toolkit” provides guidance for the implementation of AP automation solutions that can streamline and modernize your own systems and processes to take advantage of new digital developments.
Perfect for controllers, chief financial officers, and finance managers, The New Accounts Payable Toolkit will also earn a place in the libraries of students and professionals who seek to better understand the components of an optimal accounts payable.
“The New Accounts Payable Toolkit” offers readers a comprehensive and timely new way of handling their accounts payable systems and processes. You'll discover how to implement new digital technologies in every aspect of the accounts payable process, from the establishment of the initial contract and purchase order to the supplier validation process, invoice processing and payment, accounting, and fiscal close.
You'll learn to validate suppliers in the master list to ensure regulatory compliance, prevent multiple payments for a single invoice, keep from paying fraudulent, inaccurate, or incomplete invoices, and apply best practices to help safeguard your company's assets. You'll also discover how to measure and record key metrics and analytics to maintain an effective accounts payable process. Finally, you'll read about new and upcoming trends in accounts payable, like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotic process automation that you can implement today to realize new efficiencies and savings.
Ideal for chief financial officers, finance managers, and controllers, “The New Accounts Payable Toolkit” is an invaluable guide to modernizing and optimizing your own company's accounts payable processes and systems.
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The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 556 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The comprehensive guide for CFOs who need an overview of leadership basics from strategies to management improvement tips
Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is filled with best practices to help you, as CFO, to improve efficiency, mitigate risks, and keep your organization competitive.
• Includes updated information on the relationship of the CFO with the Treasurer, registration statements and Fedwire payments, acquisitions integration, legal types of acquisitions, and government regulations
• Contains control flowcharts for the main accounting cycles
• Provides new chapters on Investor Relations and Risk Management for Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates
• Features an itemized list of the key tasks every new CFO should complete when first entering the position, a checklist of 100 performance measures, and a detailed discussion of employee compensation plans
The reference CFOs and other financial managers can turn to for quick answers to questions they have as well as to help them plan their financial strategy, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition is mandatory reading for every CFO wanting to play a strategic role in their organization.
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Master Data Management in Practice
Achieving True Customer MDM
by Dalton Cervo
Part 559 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
In this book, authors Dalton Cervo and Mark Allen show you how to implement Master Data Management (MDM) within your business model to create a more quality controlled approach. Focusing on techniques that can improve data quality management, lower data maintenance costs, reduce corporate and compliance risks, and drive increased efficiency in customer data management practices, the book will guide you in successfully managing and maintaining your customer master data. You'll find the expert guidance you need, complete with tables, graphs, and charts, in planning, implementing, and managing MDM.
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COSO Enterprise Risk Management
Establishing Effective Governance, Risk, and Compliance Processes
by Robert R. Moeller
Part 560 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
A fully updated, step-by-step guide for implementing COSO's Enterprise Risk Management
COSO Enterprise Risk Management, Second Edition clearly enables organizations of all types and sizes to understand and better manage their risk environments and make better decisions through use of the COSO ERM framework. The Second Edition discusses the latest trends and pronouncements that have affected COSO ERM and explores new topics, including the PCAOB's release of AS5, ISACA's recently revised CobiT, and the recently released IIA Standards.
• Offers you expert advice on how to carry out internal control responsibilities more efficiently
• Updates you on the ins and outs of the COSO Report and its emergence as the new platform for understanding all aspects of risk in today's organization
• Shows you how an effective risk management program, following COSO ERM, can help your organization to better comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Knowledgeably explains how to implement an effective ERM program
Preparing professionals develop and follow an effective risk culture, COSO Enterprise Risk Management, Second Edition is the fully revised, invaluable working resource that will show you how to identify risks, avoid pitfalls within your corporation, and keep it moving ahead of the competition.
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Enterprise Risk Management Best Practices
From Assessment to Ongoing Compliance
by Anne M. Marchetti
Part 561 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
High-level guidance for implementing enterprise risk management in any organization.
A Practical Guide to Risk Management shows organizations how to implement an effective ERM solution, starting with senior management and risk and compliance professionals working together to categorize and assess risks throughout the enterprise. Detailed guidance is provided on the key risk categories, including financial, operational, reputational, and strategic areas, along with practical tips on how to handle risks that overlap across categories.
• Provides high-level guidance on how to implement enterprise risk management across any organization
• Includes discussion of the latest trends and best practices
• Features the role of IT in ERM and the tools that are available in both assessment and on-going compliance
• Discusses the key challenges that need to be overcome for a successful ERM initiative
Walking readers through the creation of ERM architecture and setting up on-going monitoring and assessment processes, this is an essential book for every CFO, controller and IT manager.
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Handbook of Budgeting
by Various Authors
Part 562 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
New edition of book that demystifies quant and algo trading.
In this updated edition of his bestselling book, Rishi K Narang offers in a straightforward, nontechnical style-supplemented by real-world examples and informative anecdotes-a reliable resource takes you on a detailed tour through the black box. He skillfully sheds light upon the work that quants do, lifting the veil of mystery around quantitative trading and allowing anyone interested in doing so to understand quants and their strategies. This new edition includes information on High Frequency Trading.
• Offers an update on the bestselling book for explaining in non-mathematical terms what quant and algo trading are and how they work
• Provides key information for investors to evaluate the best hedge fund investments
• Explains how quant strategies fit into a portfolio, why they are valuable, and how to evaluate a quant manager
This new edition of Inside the Black Box explains quant investing without the jargon and goes a long way toward educating investment professionals.
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The Controller's Function
The Work of the Managerial Accountant
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 563 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The FX options market represents one of the most liquid and strongly competitive markets in the world and features many technical subtleties that can seriously harm the uninformed and unaware trader.
This book is a unique guide to running an FX options book from the market maker perspective. Striking a balance between mathematical rigour and market practice and written by experienced practitioner Antonio Castagna, the book shows readers how to correctly build an entire volatility surface from the market prices of the main structures.
Starting with the basic conventions related to the main FX deals and the basic traded structures of FX options, the book gradually introduces the main tools to cope with the FX volatility risk. It then goes on to review the main concepts of option pricing theory and their application within a Black-Scholes economy and a stochastic volatility environment. The book also introduces models that can be implemented to price and manage FX options before examining the effects of volatility on the profits and losses arising from the hedging activity.
Coverage includes:
• how the Black-Scholes model is used in professional trading activity
• the most suitable stochastic volatility models
• sources of profit and loss from the Delta and volatility hedging activity
• fundamental concepts of smile hedging
• major market approaches and variations of the Vanna-Volga method
• volatility-related Greeks in the Black-Scholes model
• pricing of plain vanilla options, digital options, barrier options and the less well-known exotic options
• tools for monitoring the main risks of an FX options' book
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Internal Control of Fixed Assets
A Controller and Auditor's Guide
by Alfred M. King
Part 564 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Fixed income practitioners need to understand the conceptual frameworks of their field; to master its quantitative tool-kit; and to be well-versed in its cash-flow and pricing conventions. “Fixed Income Securities”, Third Edition by Bruce Tuckman and Angel Serrat is designed to balance these three objectives. The book presents theory without unnecessary abstraction; quantitative techniques with a minimum of mathematics; and conventions at a useful level of detail.
The book begins with an overview of global fixed income markets and continues with the fundamentals, namely, arbitrage pricing, interest rates, risk metrics, and term structure models to price contingent claims. Subsequent chapters cover individual markets and securities: repo, rate and bond forwards and futures, interest rate and basis swaps, credit markets, fixed income options, and mortgage-backed-securities.
“Fixed Income Securities”, Third Edition is full of examples, applications, and case studies. Practically every quantitative concept is illustrated through real market data. This practice-oriented approach makes the book particularly useful for the working professional.
This third edition is a considerable revision and expansion of the second. Most examples have been updated. The chapters on fixed income options and mortgage-backed securities have been considerably expanded to include a broader range of securities and valuation methodologies. Also, three new chapters have been added: the global overview of fixed income markets; a chapter on corporate bonds and credit default swaps; and a chapter on discounting with bases, which is the foundation for the relatively recent practice of discounting swap cash flows with curves based on money market rates.
This university edition includes problems which students can use to test and enhance their understanding of the text.
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Project Management Accounting
Budgeting, Tracking, and Reporting Costs and Profitability
by Kevin R. Callahan
Part 565 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
“Operational Risk Management” offers a comprehensive guide that contains a review of the most up-to-date and effective operational risk management practices in the financial services industry. The book provides an essential overview of the current methods and best practices applied in financial companies and also contains advanced tools and techniques developed by the most mature firms in the field.
The author explores the range of operational risks such as information security, fraud or reputation damage and details how to put in place an effective program based on the four main risk management activities: risk identification, risk assessment, risk mitigation and risk monitoring. The book also examines some specific types of operational risks that rank high on many firms' risk registers.
Drawing on the author's extensive experience working with and advising financial companies, “Operational Risk Management” is written both for those new to the discipline and for experienced operational risk managers who want to strengthen and consolidate their knowledge.
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The Professional's Guide to Fair Value
The Future of Financial Reporting
by James P. Catty
Part 567 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
An all-encompassing guide to the elements and basics of fair value
With the important role fair value is playing in the creation of a converged set of global accounting standards, demand for products in this category is growing spectacularly. The elements and basics of fair value are covered, including risk, dealing with the SEC, and details on legal responsibility. In addition, sample financial statements are included, along with tables, recommended applicable techniques, and management checklists for those who are responsible for preparing and approving of financial statements.
• Written by the Chairman and co-CEO of the International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA)
• Includes sample financial statements of both U.S. and foreign companies
Appropriate for anyone involved professionally with finance-managers, accountants, investors, bankers, instructors, and students, “The Professional's Guide to Fair Value” is a reliable reference on the ins and outs of fair value financial disclosure.
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Bribery and Corruption
Navigating the Global Risks
by Brian P. Loughman
Part 568 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
As businesses continue to expand globally into new and emerging markets, bribery and corruption risks have increased exponentially. Bribery and Corruption offers a comprehensive look at this growing problem, and at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other international anti-bribery and corruption conventions. Presenting hypothetical examples of situations companies will face, along with practical solutions, the book offers detailed global guidance on a region and country-specific basis.
The FCPA prohibits US companies and their subsidiaries from bribing foreign officials, either directly or indirectly through intermediaries, for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. It also requires companies to keep accurate records of all business transactions and maintain an effective system of internal accounting controls. Internationally, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) anti-bribery convention has been adopted by 38 countries and creates legally binding standards related to bribery of foreign public officials.
Written by renowned accounting fraud experts Richard A. Sibery and Brian P. Loughman, and providing an introduction and overview of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international bribery laws, Bribery and Corruption considers:
• How to conduct FCPA risk assessments and investigations
• How to consider FCPA specific financial controls
• How to implement an FCPA compliance program and how to measure FCPA compliance
The risk of bribery and corruption continues to be an area of concern for companies around the world, but armed with Bribery and Corruption, it is easier than ever to understand the challenges that exist and how to deal with them.
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Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
It Can't Happen to Us--Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success
by Richard M. Steinberg
Part 570 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
An expert guide to selecting the right cloud service model for your business.
Cloud computing is all the rage, allowing for the delivery of computing and storage capacity to a diverse community of end-recipients. However, before you can decide on a cloud model, you need to determine what the ideal cloud service model is for your business. Helping you cut through all the haze, “Architecting the Cloud” is vendor neutral and guides you in making one of the most critical technology decisions that you will face: selecting the right cloud service model(s) based on a combination of both business and technology requirements.
• Guides corporations through key cloud design considerations
• Discusses the pros and cons of each cloud service model
• Highlights major design considerations in areas such as security, data privacy, logging, data storage, SLA monitoring, and more
• Clearly defines the services cloud providers offer for each service model and the cloud services IT must provide
Arming you with the information you need to choose the right cloud service provider, “Architecting the Cloud” is a comprehensive guide covering everything you need to be aware of in selecting the right cloud service model for you.
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IT Auditing and Application Controls for Small and Mid-Sized Enterprises
Revenue, Expenditure, Inventory, Payroll, and More
by Jason Wood
Part 573 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Essential guidance for the financial auditor in need of a working knowledge of IT
If you're a financial auditor needing working knowledge of IT and application controls, Automated Auditing Financial Applications for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses provides you with the guidance you need. Conceptual overviews of key IT auditing issues are included, as well as concrete hands-on tips and techniques. Inside, you'll find background and guidance with appropriate reference to material published by ISACA, AICPA, organized to show the increasing complexity of systems, starting with general principles and progressing through greater levels of functionality.
• Provides straightforward IT guidance to financial auditors seeking to develop quality and efficacy of software controls
• Offers small- and middle-market business auditors relevant IT coverage
• Covers relevant applications, including MS Excel, Quickbooks, and report writers
• Written for financial auditors practicing in the small to midsized business space
The largest market segment in the United States in quantity and scope is the small and middle market business, which continues to be the source of economic growth and expansion. Uniquely focused on the IT needs of auditors serving the small to medium sized business, “Automated Auditing Financial Applications for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses” delivers the kind of IT coverage you need for your organization.
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Budgeting Basics and Beyond
by Jae K. Shim
Part 574 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
A convenient and up-to-date reference tool for today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry.
If the very thought of budgets pushes your sanity over the limit, then this practical, easy-to-use guide is just what you need. “Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition” equips you with an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. The new edition covers rolling budgets (forecasts), activity-based budgeting, life-cycle budgeting. Cloud computing, Balanced Scorecard, budgeting for nonprofit organizations, business simulations for executive and management training, and much more!
• Includes several new software packages, computer-based models and spreadsheet applications, including Value Chain Management software, Financial Planning and Performance software, Web 2.0, Cloud computing, and capital budgeting software
• Features case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems
• Offers financial planning and new types of financial modeling, variance analysis, Web-based budgeting, active budgeting illuminating "what-if" analyses throughout, spreadsheet applications, break-even analysis, project analysis, and capital budgeting
“Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition” is a practical, easy-to-use problem-solver and up-to-date reference tool for today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry.
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Whistleblowers
Incentives, Disincentives, and Protection Strategies
by Frederick D. Lipman
Part 575 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Solid guidance for managers and trustees to better position their nonprofits now and in the future
The Great Recession has left a paradigm shift for nonprofit leadership and their board members as fiduciaries. It has changed how boards make, evaluate and document investment decisions, the risks they are willing to take and the way these details are communicated to donors. “Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions” will provide solid guidance for nonprofit leadership, staff and volunteers to better position their nonprofits to thrive now and in the future.
This guide will provide:
• Sophisticated investment and development principles that are easily understandable and adaptable
• Specific steps to take in order to avoid unnecessary investment risk and secure financial stability
• Solutions and techniques for capitalizing on opportunities created by funding shifts and evolving donor expectations
• Principles and practices of fiduciary responsibility, behavioral finance, socially responsible investing, strategic development planning and charity efficiency
In addition, “Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions” offers a web site resource with a variety of online tools and templates to help readers implement key concepts discussed in this book.
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Bankruptcy and Insolvency Taxation
by Grant W. Newton
Part 576 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The thorough reference that goes wherever you go.
“The Complete CFO Reference” is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.
• Covers all major developments in finance and accounting every CFO needs to know about including IFRS, Web-based planning, and ranging from financial reporting and internal control to financial decision making for shareholder value maximization
• Includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports
• Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book, as well as coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and its impact on financial reporting, XBRL reporting, risk management and disaster recovery, Web-based planning and budgeting, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and environmental costing
Simplifying day-to-day work in dozens of critical areas, “The Complete CFO Reference” is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy chief financial officer (CFO), controller, treasurer, financial director, budgeting director, and other financial professionals in public practice and private industry.
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Business Ratios and Formulas
A Comprehensive Guide
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 577 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
A complete appraisal of analytical tools available to managers to assess performance.
Required reading for anyone starting, running, or growing a business, Business Ratios and Formulas, Third Edition puts answers at the fingertips of business managers, with nearly 250 operational criteria and clear, easy-to-understand explanations that can be used right away. The Third Edition includes twenty new measurements.
• Approximately 20 new measurements
• Offers a comprehensive resource of nearly 250 operational criteria
• An Appendix including a dictionary of accounting and finance terms
• A thorough list of every ratio and formula, and how to compile and interpret that information
An ideal tool for measuring corporate performance, this authoritative resource allows you to pick and choose the tools you need to best assess your organization's performance.
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CFO Fundamentals
Your Quick Guide to Internal Controls, Financial Reporting, IFRS, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, and More
by Joel G. Siegel
Part 581 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The tax law of charitable giving.
Discover a fully updated and comprehensive reference on US charitable tax law from a leading authority.
As United States charitable tax law becomes ever more complex and byzantine, the need for a one-stop resource on foundational and advanced topics in this practice area has become acute. The comprehensively revised Sixth Edition of “The Tax Law of Charitable Giving” fills this niche. The book offers readers a fulsome, authoritative, and well-organized description of modern US tax laws on charitable giving.
Ranging over the basics of US charitable giving law to the intricate details of contributions of various types of property and international giving, this accomplished nonprofit lawyer, professor, and author delves deeply into a wide variety of subjects concerning deductible (and nondeductible) charitable giving. In addition to fundamental topics such as the definition of gift and percentage limitations on charitable deductions, readers will learn about planned giving, donor-advised funds, the substantiation and appraisal requirements, reporting and disclosure laws, valuation pricinples, tax penalties, and more.
Ideal for lawyers, accountants, and other financial professionals who advise clients on charitable giving and tax matters, “The Tax Law of Charitable Giving” provides an authoritative reference on all aspects of philanthropy and federal tax law.
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The Essential Controller
An Introduction to What Every Financial Manager Must Know
by Steven M. Bragg
Part 582 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Pulling together the most salient, current issues in the field today, The Handbook of Gangs provides a significant assessment by leading scholars of key topics related to gangs, gang members, and responses to gangs.
• Chapters cover a wide array of the most prominent issues in the field of gangs, written by scholars who have been leaders in developing new ways of thinking about the topics
• Delivers cutting-edge reviews of the current state of research and practice and addresses where the field has been, where it is today and where it should go in the future
• Includes extensive coverage of the individual theories of delinquency and provides special emphasis on policy and prevention program implications in the study of gangs
• Offers a broad understanding of how other countries deal with gangs and their response to gangs, including Great Britain, Latin America, Australia and Europe
• Chapters covering the legacies of four pioneers in gang research-Malcolm W. Klein, Walter B. Miller, James F. Short Jr., and Irving A. Spergel
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Transfer Pricing Handbook
Guidance on the OECD Regulations
by Robert Feinschreiber
Part 588 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Learn how IT leaders are adapting to the new reality of life during and after COVID-19.
COVID-19 has caused fundamental shifts in attitudes around remote and office work. And in “The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever”, internationally renowned IT executive Gregory S. Smith explains how and why companies today are shedding corporate office locations and reducing office footprints.
You'll learn about how companies realized the value of information technology and a distributed workforce and what that means for IT professionals going forward. The book offers insightful lessons regarding:
• How to best take advantage of remote collaboration and hybrid remote/office workforces
• How to implement updated risk mitigation strategies and disaster recovery planning and testing to shield your organization from worst case scenarios
• How today's CIOs and CTOs adapt their IT governance frameworks to meet new challenges, including cybersecurity risks
The New Normal in IT is an indispensable resource for IT professionals, executives, graduate technology management students, and managers in any industry. It's also a must-read for anyone interested in the impact that COVID-19 had, and continues to have, on the information technology industry.
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Asia-Pacific Transfer Pricing Handbook
by Robert Feinschreiber
Part 592 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
An informative guide to market microstructure and trading strategies.
Over the last decade, the financial landscape has undergone a significant transformation, shaped by the forces of technology, globalization, and market innovations to name a few. In order to operate effectively in today's markets, you need more than just the motivation to succeed, you need a firm understanding of how modern financial markets work and what professional trading is really about. Dr. Anatoly Schmidt, who has worked in the financial industry since 1997, and teaches in the Financial Engineering program of Stevens Institute of Technology, puts these topics in perspective with his new book.
Divided into three comprehensive parts, this reliable resource offers a balance between the theoretical aspects of market microstructure and trading strategies that may be more relevant for practitioners. Along the way, it skillfully provides an informative overview of modern financial markets as well as an engaging assessment of the methods used in deriving and back-testing trading strategies.
• Details the modern financial markets for equities, foreign exchange, and fixed income
• Addresses the basics of market dynamics, including statistical distributions and volatility of returns
• Offers a summary of approaches used in technical analysis and statistical arbitrage as well as a more detailed description of trading performance criteria and back-testing strategies
• Includes two appendices that support the main material in the book
If you're unprepared to enter today's markets you will underperform. But with “Financial Markets and Trading” as your guide, you'll quickly discover what it takes to make it in this competitive field.
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Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing
by Richard E. Cascarino
Part 597 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Step-by-step guide to successful implementation and control of IT systems, including the Cloud
Many auditors are unfamiliar with the techniques they need to know to efficiently and effectively determine whether information systems are adequately protected. Now in a Second Edition, Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing presents an easy, practical guide for auditors that can be applied to all computing environments.
• Follows the approach used by the Information System Audit and Control Association's model curriculum, making this book a practical approach to IS auditing
• Serves as an excellent study guide for those preparing for the CISA and CISM exams
• Includes discussion of risk evaluation methodologies, new regulations, SOX, privacy, banking, IT governance, CobiT, outsourcing, network management, and the Cloud
• Includes a link to an education version of IDEA-Data Analysis Software
As networks and enterprise resource planning systems bring resources together, and as increasing privacy violations threaten more organization, information systems integrity becomes more important than ever. Auditor's Guide to IT Auditing, Second Edition empowers auditors to effectively gauge the adequacy and effectiveness of information systems controls.
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Benford's Law
Applications for Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Fraud Detection
by Mark J. Nigrini
Part 616 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
A powerful new tool for all forensic accountants, or anyone who analyzes data that may have been altered.
“Benford's Law” gives the expected patterns of the digits in the numbers in tabulated data such as town and city populations or Madoff's fictitious portfolio returns. Those digits, in unaltered data, will not occur in equal proportions; there is a large bias towards the lower digits, so much so that nearly one-half of all numbers are expected to start with the digits 1 or 2. These patterns were originally discovered by physicist Frank Benford in the early 1930s, and have since been found to apply to all tabulated data. Mark J. Nigrini has been a pioneer in applying Benford's Law to auditing and forensic accounting, even before his groundbreaking 1999 Journal of Accountancy article introducing this useful tool to the accounting world. In “Benford's Law”, Nigrini shows the widespread applicability of Benford's Law and its practical uses to detect fraud, errors, and other anomalies.
• Explores primary, associated, and advanced tests, all described with data sets that include corporate payments data and election data
• Includes ten fraud detection studies, including vendor fraud, payroll fraud, due diligence when purchasing a business, and tax evasion
• Covers financial statement fraud, with data from Enron, AIG, and companies that were the target of hedge fund short sales
• Looks at how to detect Ponzi schemes, including data on Madoff, Waxenberg, and more
• Examines many other applications, from the Clinton tax returns and the charitable gifts of Lehman Brothers to tax evasion and number invention
“Benford's Law” has 250 figures and uses 50 interesting authentic and fraudulent real-world data sets to explain both theory and practice, and concludes with an agenda and directions for future research. The companion website adds additional information and resources.
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The Essential CFO
A Corporate Finance Playbook
by Bruce P. Nolop
Part 620 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Discover how to remove behavioral bias from your investment decisions.
For many financial professionals and individual investors, behavioral bias is the largest single factor behind poor investment decisions. The same instincts that our brains employ to keep us alive all too often work against us in the world of finance and investments.
“Investing Psychology” explores several different types of behavioral bias, which pulls back the curtain on any illusions you have about yourself and your investing abilities. This practical investment guide explains that conventional financial wisdom is often nothing more than myth and provides a detailed roadmap for overcoming behavioral bias.
• Offers an overview of how our brain perceives realities of the financial world at large and how human nature impacts even our most basic financial decisions
• Explores several different types of behavioral bias, which pulls back the curtain on any illusions you have about yourself and your investing abilities
• Provides real-world advice, including: Don't compete with institutions, always track your results, and don't trade when you're emotional, tired, or hungry
“Investing Psychology” is a unique book that shows readers how to dig deeper and persistently question everything in the financial world around them, including the incorrect investment decisions that human nature all too often compels us to make.
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Cyber Forensics
From Data to Digital Evidence
by Albert J. Marcella Jr.
Part 624 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
An explanation of the basic principles of data
This book explains the basic principles of data as building blocks of electronic evidential matter, which are used in a cyber forensics investigations. The entire text is written with no reference to a particular operation system or environment, thus it is applicable to all work environments, cyber investigation scenarios, and technologies. The text is written in a step-by-step manner, beginning with the elementary building blocks of data progressing upwards to the representation and storage of information. It includes practical examples and illustrations throughout to guide the reader.
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Executive's Guide to COSO Internal Controls
Understanding and Implementing the New Framework
by Robert R. Moeller
Part 639 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Essential guidance on the revised COSO internal controls framework
Need the latest on the new, revised COSO internal controls framework? Executive's Guide to COSO Internal Controls provides a step-by-step plan for installing and implementing effective internal controls with an emphasis on building improved IT as well as other internal controls and integrating better risk management processes. The COSO internal controls framework forms the basis for establishing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and internal controls specialist Robert Moeller looks at topics including the importance of effective systems on internal controls in today's enterprises, the new COSO framework for effective enterprise internal controls, and what has changed since the 1990s internal controls framework.
• Written by Robert Moeller, an authority in internal controls and IT governance
• Practical, no-nonsense coverage of all three dimensions of the new COSO framework
• Helps you change systems and processes when implementing the new COSO internal controls framework
• Includes information on how ISO internal control and risk management standards as well as COBIT can be used with COSO internal controls
Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, every corporation has to assert that their internal controls are adequate and public accounting firms certifying those internal controls are attesting to the adequacy of those same internal controls, based on the COSO internal controls framework. Executive's Guide to COSO Internal Controls thoroughly considers improved risk management processes as part of the new COSO framework, the importance of IT systems and processes, and risk management techniques.
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Enterprise Compliance Risk Management
An Essential Toolkit for Banks and Financial Services
by Saloni Ramakrishna
Part 641 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The thousands of mergers, acquisitions, and start-ups that have characterized the past years of business have created an increasing number of corporations in financial trouble: specifically, a shortage of venture capital or quick cash. Consequently, bankruptcy protection is now viewed as a strategic move to protect corporations from their creditors and allow them to reorganize. Fully revised and updated with new case studies and the latest coverage of regulations, “Bankruptcy and Insolvency Taxation”, Fourth Edition provides the answers to the questions financial managers will have on the tax aspects of bankruptcy strategy.
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Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants
by Neale Blackwood
Part 653 of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Text As Data: Combining qualitative and quantitative algorithms within the SAS system for accurate, effective and understandable text analytics.
The need for powerful, accurate and increasingly automatic text analysis software in modern information technology has dramatically increased. Fields as diverse as financial management, fraud and cybercrime prevention, Pharmaceutical R&D, social media marketing, customer care, and health services are implementing more comprehensive text-inclusive, analytics strategies. “Text as Data: Computational Methods of Understanding Written Expression Using SAS” presents an overview of text analytics and the critical role SAS software plays in combining linguistic and quantitative algorithms in the evolution of this dynamic field.
Drawing on over two decades of experience in text analytics, authors Barry deVille and Gurpreet Singh Bawa examine the evolution of text mining and cloud-based solutions, and the development of SAS Visual Text Analytics. By integrating quantitative data and textual analysis with advanced computer learning principles, the authors demonstrate the combined advantages of SAS compared to standard approaches and show how approaching text as qualitative data within a quantitative analytics framework produces more detailed, accurate, and explanatory results.
• Understand the role of linguistics, machine learning, and multiple data sources in the text analytics workflow
• Understand how a range of quantitative algorithms and data representations reflect contextual effects to shape meaning and understanding
• Access online data and code repositories, videos, tutorials, and case studies
• Learn how SAS extends quantitative algorithms to produce expanded text analytics capabilities
• Redefine text in terms of data for more accurate analysis
This book offers a thorough introduction to the framework and dynamics of text analytics-and the underlying principles at work-and provides an in-depth examination of the interplay between qualitative-linguistic and quantitative, data-driven aspects of data analysis. The treatment begins with a discussion on expression parsing and detection and provides insight into the core principles and practices of text parsing, theme, and topic detection. It includes advanced topics such as contextual effects in numeric and textual data manipulation, fine-tuning text meaning and disambiguation. As the first resource to leverage the power of SAS for text analytics, “Text as Data” is an essential resource for SAS users and data scientists in any industry or academic application.
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Brink's Modern Internal Auditing
A Common Body of Knowledge
by Robert R. Moeller
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
The complete guide to internal auditing for the modern world
“Brink's Modern Internal Auditing: A Common Body of Knowledge, Eighth Edition” covers the fundamental information that you need to make your role as internal auditor effective, efficient, and accurate. Originally written by one of the founders of internal auditing, Vic Brink and now fully updated and revised by internal controls and IT specialist, Robert Moeller, this new edition reflects the latest industry changes and legal revisions. This comprehensive resource has long been, and will continue to be, a critical reference for both new and seasoned internal auditors alike. Through the information provided in this inclusive text, you explore how to maximize your impact on your company by creating higher standards of professional conduct and greater protection against inefficiency, misconduct, illegal activity, and fraud.
A key feature of this book is a detailed description of an internal audit Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK), key governance, risk and compliance topics that all internal auditors need to know and understand. There are informative discussions on how to plan and perform internal audits including the information technology (IT) security and control issues that impact all enterprises today. Modern internal auditing is presented as a standard-setting branch of business that elevates professional conduct and protects entities against fraud, misconduct, illegal activity, inefficiency, and other issues that could detract from success.
• Contribute to your company's productivity and responsible resource allocation through targeted auditing practices
• Ensure that internal control procedures are in place, are working, and are leveraged as needed to support your company's performance
• Access fully-updated information regarding the latest changes in the internal audit industry
• Rely upon a trusted reference for insight into key topics regarding the internal audit field
“Brink's Modern Internal Auditing: A Common Body of Knowledge, Eighth Edition” presents the comprehensive collection of information that internal auditors rely on to remain effective in their role.
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The Controller's Toolkit
by Christine H. Doxey
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Get practical tools and guidance for financial controllership you can put to immediate use
“The Controller's Toolkit” delivers a one-of-a-kind collection of templates, checklists, review sheets, internal controls, policies, and procedures that will form a solid foundation for any new or established financial controller. You'll get the tools and information you need to master areas like business ethics, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, security, IT processes, and financial operations.
All of the tools contained in this indispensable book were recommended by corporate and business unit controllers from small to medium-sized companies and large, multinational firms. You will benefit from master-level guidance in areas like: Ethics, Codes of Conduct, and the "Tone at the Top" to support ethical behavior The operational and financial aspects of corporate governance. The importance of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission Framework. The requirement for entity-level controls. The importance of linking the business plan with the budget process
“The Controller's Toolkit” also belongs on the bookshelves of finance and accounting students, executives, and managers who wish to know more about the often-complex world of financial controls.
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Using Analytics to Detect Possible Fraud
Tools and Techniques
by Pamela S. Mantone
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Detailed tools and techniques for developing efficiency and effectiveness in forensic accounting.
“Using Analytics to Detect Possible Fraud: Tools and Techniques” is a practical overview of the first stage of forensic accounting, providing a common source of analytical techniques used for both efficiency and effectiveness in forensic accounting investigations. The book is written clearly so that those who do not have advanced mathematical skills will be able to understand the analytical tests and use the tests in a forensic accounting setting. It also includes case studies and visual techniques providing practical application of the analytical tests discussed.
• Shows how to develop both efficiency and effectiveness in forensic accounting
• Provides information in such a way that non-practitioners can easily understand
• Written in plain language: advanced mathematical skills are not required
• Features actual case studies using analytical tests
Essential reading for every investor who wants to prevent financial fraud, Using Analytics to Detect Possible Fraud allows practitioners to focus on areas that require further investigative techniques and to unearth deceptive financial reporting before it's too late.
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The Fast Close Toolkit
by Christine H. Doxey
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
This publication focuses on the critical methods that can be used to dramatically improve the fiscal closing process.
The Record to Report (R2R) or Fiscal Closing Process is at the core of the controllership function. The process includes transaction processing, internal and external reporting, and the internal controls-the people, processes, and technology-that constitute the corporate organizational hierarchy. CFOs, controllers, and corporate finance departments require timely, accurate, and consistent data to make appropriate operational and strategic decisions and fulfill statutory, regulatory, and compliance requirements with accurate and timely data. “The Fast Close Toolkit” offers both strategic and tactical suggestions that can significantly improve the fiscal closing process and provides guidance on new legislation requirements, systems and best practice processes. Checklists, templates, process narratives, and sample policies are provided for every component of the fiscal close.
Investors and shareholders expect fast and easy access to the data created by current business activities in the information-driven digital age. “The Fast Close Toolkit” provides the necessary tools and expert advice to improve the fiscal closing process. Authoritative and up to date, this book:
• Identifies the bottlenecks that can impact the and improve the fiscal close process and provides best practices to help alleviate these challenges
• Defines the Record to Report (R2R) and recommends the roles and responsibilities for fiscal close processes flow
• Offers the internal controls to use for the end-to-end fiscal close process
• Describes approaches for risk management, R2R, and fiscal close benchmarking
• Identifies KPIs for all aspects of the R2R process
• Provides the mechanism for developing a financial close scorecard
• Recommends leading practices for both external and internal reporting
• Provides guidance on how strategic planning, the budget and forecast processes can be streamlined to enhance the fiscal close and internal reporting results
Written by a respected expert on internal controls and the fiscal closing process, “The Fast Close Toolkit” is a valuable source of information for professionals involved in controllership and have responsibility for the fiscal close.
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Financial Expert Witness Communication
A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony
by Bradley J. Preber
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Learn what to expect, and what's expected, as an expert witness
Serving as a financial expert witness or consultant in lawsuits is a stressful, challenging, and tough business. In “Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony”, financial forensic expert Bradley J. Preber leverages more than 30 years of experience to create a practical guide for financial expert witnesses as they face litigation reporting and testimony.
‘Financial Expert Witness Communication” covers all areas of financial litigation including accounting, financial forensics, forensic technology, and damages, all from the point of view of an expert witness. The book is especially helpful for those who expect to be formally designated as an expert witness, however, it is also appropriate for financial forensic accountants, litigation consultants, and attorneys as they navigate the unique playing field of the financial litigation process.
This book gives financial experts strategies to defend the analysis, conclusions, and expert opinions they have at their disposal. It also provides thorough explanations of compliance, data limitations, and due diligence as well as how to handle demanding legal counsel, with a goal of better preparing them for the entire legal process.
The book is part of the Wiley Corporate F&A Series and was created as an educational resource for non-attorney financial experts involved with U.S.-based civil litigation or alternative dispute resolution proceedings. It takes a well-rounded approach by including special chapters on such concepts as retention, privilege, responsibilities, ethics, and testimony, all written by a nationally recognized expert. As a bonus, the companion website presents an additional expert witness case study and guidelines for fulfilling an expert witness role.
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Supply Chain Transformation
Practical Roadmap to Best Practice Results
by Richard J. Sherman
Part of the Wiley Corporate F&A series
Achieve best practices in supply chain management
Much is being written about global supply chain and sourcing options emerging in today's marketplace. Transforming supply chain management to achieve operations excellence is a mandate for many companies globally. “Supply Chain Transformation” walks you through this potentially difficult process and gets you started on the journey. Much more than just a how-to book, it's a why-to book that is as compelling for any businessperson as it is for supply chain management professionals. This book provides an invaluable road map to companies looking to transform their supply chains and organizations to achieve best practice results, beginning with guidance on how to make the case for change. Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
• Includes real world cases and illustrations
• Offers a step-by-step road map to transforming your supply chain
• Explains how to obtain "senior management" commitment to transformation
• Covers sourcing, production, and logistics process integration points with product development, marketing, sales, and finance processes as well as emerging technologies (RFID, Cloud computing, telematics, ERP, GPS/LBS & others)
One of the biggest hurdles to supply chain transformation is overcoming a culture that is resistant to change. Supply Chain Transformation helps you understand the cultural resistance and evaluate where change is needed most, and then develop the game plan for overcoming resistance to achieve best practice results.