Fraud Data Analytics Methodology: The Fraud Scenario Approach to Uncovering Fraud in Core Business Systems

by Leonard W. Vona (Author)
Uncover hidden fraud and red flags using efficient data analytics

Fraud Data Analytics Methodology addresses the need for clear, reliable fraud detection with a solid framework for a robust data analytic plan. By combining fraud risk assessment and fraud data analytics, you'll be able to better identify and respond to the risk of fraud in your audits. Proven techniques help you identify signs of fraud hidden deep within company databases, and strategic guidance demonstrates how to build data interrogation search routines into your fraud risk assessment to locate red flags and fraudulent transactions. These methodologies require no advanced software skills, and are easily implemented and integrated into any existing audit program. Professional standards now require all audits to include data analytics, and this informative guide shows you how to leverage this critical tool for recognizing fraud in today's core business systems.

Fraud cannot be detected through audit unless the sample contains a fraudulent transaction. This book explores methodologies that allow you to locate transactions that should undergo audit testing.

Locate hidden signs of fraud
Build a holistic fraud data analytic plan
Identify red flags that lead to fraudulent transactions
Build efficient data interrogation into your audit plan
Incorporating data analytics into your audit program is not about reinventing the wheel. A good auditor must make use of every tool available, and recent advances in analytics have made it accessible to everyone, at any level of IT proficiency. When the old methods are no longer sufficient, new tools are often the boost that brings exceptional results. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology gets you up to speed, with a brand new tool box for fraud detection.

Author Information
LEONARD W. VONA, CPA, CFE, is the CEO of Fraud Auditing and a world-renowned authority in fraud auditing. He has provided expert witness testimony in federal and state courts; consulted with corporations around the world; and is the author of Fraud Risk Assessment: Building the Fraud Audit Program and The Fraud Audit: Responding to the Risk of Fraud in Core Business Systems, both published by Wiley. A forensic auditor with more than 38 years of diversified forensic auditing experience, he has provided more than 1,500 days of fraud training around the world.

Reviews

"Leonard Vona inspired my fraud career and introduced me to the incredible power of data analytics in detecting and fighting fraud. His new book is sure to inspire many more fraud fighters. His clear and concise guidance and instruction will provide even new fraud fighters powerful techniques that are certain to deliver results."
—Mary Breslin, CIA, CFE, President, Empower Audit Training and Consulting

"Leonard's emphasis to first seek to understand how fraud can happen and only then create and carry-out fraud data analytics and procedures should maximize internal audit's impact, while minimizing time spent on engagement planning. This book provides detailed instructions on how to audit for fraud for all key business processes and should be leveraged by all serious Internal Auditors."
—Tom O'Reilly, Vice President and General Manager of Internal Audit and Seminars, MIS Training Institute

"Fraud Data Analytics Methodology will help auditors close the expectation gap. It is an in-depth manual for using a fraud scenario approach to finding just about any kind of fraud. The author provides step-by-step guidance on fraud planning reports and analytics that will detect fraudulent transactions within a company's business systems."
—Carolyn J. Newman, President, Audimation Services, Inc.– A CaseWare Analytics Partner

"I recommend this book to auditors who want to look for fraud in a structured, methodical and scientific way."
—Hassan Mohd. Ali Al Lawati, Assistant Chief Internal Auditor, Oman LNG