A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation

Catastrophic business failures have caused some to rethink the value of the audit. This text grooms a new generation of a rare and much-needed breed of auditor, the forensic accounting specialist, an expert in uncovering fraud. The auditor should find in this book the necessary practical aids, case examples and skills for identifying situations that call for extended fraud detection procedures as well as how to address them.

Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (2nd Ed) - Andy Field

This new edition of Field's bestselling textbook provides students of statistical methods with everything they need to understand, use and report statistics - at every level. Written in Andy Field's vivid and entertaining style, and furnished with playful examples from everyday student life (among other places), the book forms an accessible gateway into the often intimidating world of statistics and a unique opportunity for students to ground their knowledge of statistics through the use of SPSS. The text is fully compliant with the latest release of SPSS (version 13).

SPSS Survival Manual (4th Ed) - Julie Pallant

A completely updated edition of the internationally successful, user-friendly guide that takes students and researchers through the often daunting process of analysing research data with the widely-used SPSS software package. Fully revised and updated for SPSS Version 18.

The SPSS Survival Manual throws a lifeline to students and researchers grappling with the SPSS data analysis software.

In this thoroughly revised edition of her bestselling text, Julie Pallant guides you through the entire research process, helping you choose the right data analysis technique for your project. From the formulation of research questions, to the design of the study and analysis of data, to reporting the results, Pallant discusses basic and advanced statistical techniques. She outlines each technique clearly, with step-by-step procedures for performing the analysis, a detailed guide to interpreting SPSS data output and an example of how to present the results in a report.

Barriers to Corporate Fraud

The collapse of Enron Corp. in the fall of 2001 had a peculiar side effect: accounting became front page news. For the next year, accounting fraud at a long series of "Fortune" 500 companies made headlines. The worst cases led to spectacular bankruptcies, mass layoffs, and criminal prosecutions. Many other companies remained intact, but paid millions of dollars to settle charges that their books did not correspond to financial reality. The economic costs of the corporate scandals were substantial: trillions of dollars in shareholder wealth lost and a climate of uncertainty that may have suppressed business investment and hiring after the 2001 recession ended. The barriers to corporate fraud set in place after the Great Depression had clearly failed to protect public investors and were put under close scrutiny. Congress responded by passing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, strengthening regulation of auditors, directors, and corporate executives and increasing criminal penalties for fraud. 

Research Methods in Accounting - Malcolm Smith

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`Malcolm Smith's Research Methods in Accounting provides a useful addition to the limited number of books on research methods that are addressed specifically to the area of accounting. For students taking DBA degrees in the area, it is probably an ideal companion' - The European Accounting Review

Research in accounting is concerned with solving problems, investigating relationships and building a body of knowledge. With this in mind, this book will provide a clear and concise overview of the conduct of applied research studies in accounting.

It provides the principal building blocks of how to implement research in accounting and related fields.

This book provides students with:

- an understanding of contemporary research ideas in accounting, so that readers can identify and define research problems and prepare strategies for their solution;

- an awareness of alternative research methods, to facilitate the selection of the most appropriate method for addressing particular research questions;

- an ability to review existing research and to offer critiques of articles published in refereed journals;

- an appreciation of the ethical constraints on the conduct of accounting research.

This book will be essential for students and academics in the fields of accounting and management.

IBM SPSS Statistics Version 20

IBM SPSS Statistics is an integrated family of products that addresses the entire analytical process, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting and deployment. With more than a dozen fully integrated modules to choose from, you can find the specialized capabilities you need to increase revenue, outperform competitors, conduct research and make better decisions.

IBM SPSS Statistics AMOS Version 20

IBM® SPSS® Amos gives you the power to easily perform structural equation modeling to build models with more accuracy than with standard multivariate statistics techniques.

With SPSS Amos, you can specify, estimate, assess, and present your model in an intuitive interface to show hypothesized relationships among variables. Alternatively, SPSS Amos offers a non-graphical method to specify models. SPSS Amos is the perfect tool for a variety of purposes.