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Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program

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Providing a comprehensive framework for building an effective fraud prevention model, Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program presents a readable overview for developing fraud audit procedures and building controls that successfully minimize fraud. An invaluable reference for auditors, fraud examiners, investigators, CFOs, controllers, corporate attorneys, and accountants, this book helps business leaders respond to the risk of asset misappropriation fraud and uncover fraud in core business systems.

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Author:	Leonard W. Vona
Hardcover:	224 pages
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication Date:	April 25, 2008
Language:	English
ISBN:	047012945X
Product Width:	159.75 centimeters
Product Height:	225.25 centimeters
Product Weight:	0.95 pounds
Package Length:	9.0 inches
Package Width:	6.2 inches
Package Height:	0.9 inches
Package Weight:	1.2 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 4 reviews

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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

A disappointing purchase Apr 02, 2009 By Julie G
My manager and I both felt this was a poorly written book. I have no doubt that the author is a competent fraud investigator, but his writing left much to be desired. There was no organizational flow to the book, no rhyme or reason to how he bulleted and arranged his points, to help me stay on track with him. It felt like he was just babbling information onto the pages. A lot of it is good information, but it was extremely difficult to go away with a clear understanding of how to structure my own fraud audit program. It didn't help that almost every page had a grammatical error in it, which was not only distracting but also contributed to it feeling thrown together and not well-thought out. I'm amazed that the editors published it in this state.

There is some useful content, particularly in the chapters that discuss examples of specific fraud schemes, and the data mining chapter. I will use those areas as a reference on audits. But the remaining chapters, which I had hoped would lay out good, step-by-step strategies for building a fraud program, left much to be desired. The content may all be there, but I think it should be the writer's responsibility, not mine, to organize it clearly and make something useful out of it.

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A Good Attempt Sep 03, 2009 By Hayden T. Joseph
I have to agree that Vona's writing can be improved. His thoughts are disjointed and one has serious difficulty in garnering a comprehensive picture of his perspective on Fraud Risk. He describes three ways of doing a Fraud Risk that should more appropriately be described as three stages of a developing fraud risk strategy. Fraud Risk, like Controlled Self Assessment, is the latest craze for consultants and some external auditors. They are generally full of catch phrases and jargon but appear to possess little real knowledge of the activity as a logical concept.
The CFE who praised this book made me wince, but then, he was vague on his basis for doing so.
Vona does not appear to see business risk analysis as a precursor to fraud risk, which I would argue is axiomatic. He should, however, be congratulated for making a valiant effort to address this controversial topic.

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Anders VP Internal Audit May 28, 2008 By A. Blomqvist "Anders"
Well structured and well researched book. It has given great help when designing my audit plans.

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Excelent book May 27, 2008 By Dimiter Petrov Dinev
The book creates the link between the auditors anf fraud examiners! It is a very important brick in the antifraud wall!