Criminal Financial Investigations

<p>Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals. Now in its second edition <strong>Criminal Financial Investigations: The Use of Forensic Accounting Techniques and Indirect Methods of Proof</strong> provides direct instruction on the how to aspects of criminal financial investigations taking readers through the different approaches used in gathering evidence and demonstrating how to present circumstantial evidence to a judge or jury in a simple and convincing manner. Simplifying how the financial pieces fit together this text:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Presents the logic and reasoning involved in constructing a financial criminal investigation</li> <li>Describes the requirements for legal acceptance of forensic accounting investigations</li> <li>Includes relevant examples of the step-by-step processes involved in financial investigations</li> <li>Explores the pitfalls—and how to avoid them—in financial investigating</li> <li>Contains two investigations with step-by-step procedures from initial inquiry to case completion—for use as term or topical assignments or to promote class discussion</li> </ul><p><strong> <br><p>New Chapters in the Second Edition:</p> <br> </strong></p><li>What Is a Financial Investigation?</li><li>Indirect Methods in Tax Investigations</li><li>Unique Aspects of Criminal Tax Investigations</li><li>Innovative Applications</li><p>Written by a former Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service this volume sets out a successful methodology enabling readers to identify pursue and successfully prosecute financial white collar crime.</p>