forensic accounting

Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History

by Jim Campbell  · 26 Apr 2021  · 369pp  · 107,073 words

enhance SEC staff capabilities. The SEC has moved to bring in staff with specialized expertise in hedge funds, derivatives, clearing, risk management, trading, portfolio strategies, forensic accounting, verification of trades and custody arrangements, and use of databases maintained by exchanges and clearinghouses. This means bringing in significant securities experience (which would take

The Great Post Office Scandal: The Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound Scandal Which Put Innocent People in Jail

by Nick Wallis  · 18 Nov 2021  · 705pp  · 192,650 words

campaigner. Caveen, Jayne Martin Griffiths’ sister. Cavender, David QC Barrister. Post Office lead counsel during the Common Issues trial Bates v Post Office. Chatur, Mahebub Forensic accountant who helped and advised Mohamed and Rubbina Shaheen. Clark, Nicolas Subpostmaster. Convicted of false accounting at Grimsby Crown Court. Conviction quashed at Court of Appeal

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-Buck, Emma MP Kevin and Julie Carter’s and Dionne Andre’s MP. Lilley, Peter MP Secretary of State for Business in 1996. Linnell, Kay Forensic accountant who works with Alan Bates. Claimants’ steering committee member during the Bates v Post Office litigation. Lock, Pamela Subpostmaster, Cwmdu, Swansea. Convicted of false accounting

Judas Unchained

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 1 Jan 2006  · 1,386pp  · 379,115 words

up the Cox Educational charity, which had its account in the Denman Manhattan bank. It would take Senate Security a while to organize a proper forensic accounting review of their records. And I’m sure you’re better able to perform the same function.’ ‘I’ll rip that goddamn company apart for

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Directorate, apparently he has a lot of contacts there. The Directorate will subject both Bromley, Waterford, and Granku, and the Denman Manhattan bank to a forensic accounting evaluation. It’ll be considerably more thorough than anything Senate Security can run. There’s a chance that they might identify both the source of

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

by Gerald Posner  · 3 Feb 2015  · 1,590pp  · 353,834 words

ever produced private files for the investigators of another sovereign. And that was the result of a hard-fought compromise to an Italian demand that forensic accountants be allowed direct access to the IOR archives.21 The Vatican’s limited cooperation did not prove helpful to the joint commission, whose work was

Madoff: The Final Word

by Richard Behar  · 9 Jul 2024

on? “This is the end of the line [for the company’s fate], and it’s juxtaposed with a long conversation,” says one investigator. “Any forensic accountant will tell you that an account that zeros out is weird anyway.” We’ll never know what it was about, as a $1 billion case

Track Changes

by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum  · 1 May 2016  · 519pp  · 142,646 words

and the Word Processor, 9–10. 12. See Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting The Waste Land (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), for both the definitive forensic account of the text’s typewritten composition and a deft reading of the typewriter’s figure. 13. Hannah Sullivan, The Work of Revision (Cambridge, MA: Harvard

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

by Andy Greenberg  · 15 Nov 2022  · 494pp  · 121,217 words

mysterious inventor, known as Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin burrowed into the very center of Gambaryan’s mind, at the point where his obsessions with computers and forensic accounting converged. As an IRS investigator tasked with following the money, he considered the notion of anonymous digital cash vaguely foreboding. Who would pay taxes on

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team, “we were all kind of horrified,” Rabenn said. For an old-school money-laundering agent like Sanchez, cryptocurrency still represented a serious impediment to forensic accounting, just as its criminal users intended. But by early 2017, there was already a new, growing class of investigators who saw Bitcoin very differently. And

Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth

by Dan McCrum  · 15 Jun 2022  · 361pp  · 117,566 words

Police Escort 22 January 2020 – Aschheim Wirecard share price €129, market capitalization €16bn KPMG WANTED TO KNOW where the cash was. When its team of forensic accounting specialists first arrived at Wirecard they were told that more than €1bn of Wirecard cash was in Singapore, in bank accounts overseen by a trustee

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

by Alan Rusbridger  · 14 Oct 2018  · 579pp  · 160,351 words

he had begun to understand the structures and finances of the Barclays’ empire. During the course of his enquiries he worked with another expert in forensic accountancy, who commented: ‘You know these guys have spent a lot of time and a lot of effort making sure that this is not easy.’ The

Halting State

by Charles Stross  · 9 Jul 2011  · 350pp  · 107,834 words

you get the message. Chris and Maggie and Brendan and the gang can just fire your ass and make sure you never work in the forensic accounting field again, but Michaels can really screw you if he puts his mind to it: He can screw you as thoroughly as only a vindictive

How to Predict the Unpredictable

by William Poundstone  · 267pp  · 71,941 words

Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff

by Christine S. Richard  · 26 Apr 2010  · 459pp  · 118,959 words

The Temporal Void

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 1 Jan 2008  · 897pp  · 242,580 words

Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism

by Richard Brooks  · 23 Apr 2018  · 398pp  · 105,917 words

The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

by Simon Clark and Will Louch  · 14 Jul 2021  · 403pp  · 105,550 words

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina  · 19 Aug 2019

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following

by Gabrielle Bluestone  · 5 Apr 2021  · 329pp  · 100,162 words

Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies

by Barry Meier  · 17 May 2021  · 319pp  · 89,192 words

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

by Matt Taibbi  · 8 Apr 2014  · 455pp  · 138,716 words

Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

by Paul M. Barrett  · 10 Jan 2012  · 249pp  · 77,027 words

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller

by Harry Markopolos  · 1 Mar 2010  · 431pp  · 132,416 words

A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

by Chris Atkins  · 6 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 98,847 words

Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim  · 10 Jun 2013  · 204pp  · 58,565 words

The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 10 Oct 2018  · 482pp  · 149,351 words

The Teeth of the Tiger

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1998  · 553pp  · 151,139 words

Bernie Madoff, the Wizard of Lies: Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle

by Diana B. Henriques  · 1 Aug 2011  · 598pp  · 169,194 words

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan  · 1 Jan 2004  · 452pp  · 110,488 words

Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

by Paul Volcker and Christine Harper  · 30 Oct 2018  · 363pp  · 98,024 words

Inheritance

by Leo Hollis  · 334pp  · 103,106 words

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It

by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris  · 10 Jul 2023  · 338pp  · 104,815 words

Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

by Ethan Brown  · 22 Nov 2005  · 279pp  · 91,148 words

Warnings

by Richard A. Clarke  · 10 Apr 2017  · 428pp  · 121,717 words

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow  · 12 May 2008  · 266pp  · 86,324 words

Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

by Peter Apps  · 10 Nov 2022  · 279pp  · 85,552 words

The Smartest Guys in the Room

by Bethany McLean  · 25 Nov 2013  · 778pp  · 233,096 words

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

by Jeff John Roberts  · 15 Dec 2020  · 226pp  · 65,516 words

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

by Abby Ellin  · 15 Jan 2019  · 340pp  · 91,745 words

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

by Matt Parker  · 7 Mar 2019

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

by Kurt Eichenwald  · 14 Mar 2005  · 992pp  · 292,389 words

The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge

by Faisal Islam  · 28 Aug 2013  · 475pp  · 155,554 words

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

by Christopher Leonard  · 11 Jan 2022  · 416pp  · 124,469 words

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

by Casey Michel  · 23 Nov 2021  · 466pp  · 116,165 words

The Unusual Billionaires

by Saurabh Mukherjea  · 16 Aug 2016

Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics

by Michael Gillard  · 24 Jul 2019  · 365pp  · 102,306 words

Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century

by Tom Bower  · 1 Jan 2009  · 554pp  · 168,114 words

Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors

by Wesley R. Gray and Tobias E. Carlisle  · 29 Nov 2012  · 263pp  · 75,455 words

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope  · 17 Sep 2018  · 354pp  · 110,570 words

Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World

by Adam Lebor  · 28 May 2013  · 438pp  · 109,306 words

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

by Michael Wolff  · 5 Jan 2018  · 394pp  · 112,770 words

Misspent Youth

by Peter F. Hamilton  · 1 Jan 2002  · 391pp  · 106,394 words

How the City Really Works: The Definitive Guide to Money and Investing in London's Square Mile

by Alexander Davidson  · 1 Apr 2008  · 368pp  · 32,950 words

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

by Paul Tucker  · 21 Apr 2018  · 920pp  · 233,102 words

MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

by Tony Robbins  · 18 Nov 2014  · 825pp  · 228,141 words

The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency

by Ian Demartino  · 2 Feb 2016  · 296pp  · 86,610 words

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

by David Enrich  · 18 Feb 2020  · 399pp  · 114,787 words

The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 769pp  · 224,916 words

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy

by Andrew Yang  · 15 Nov 2021

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

by Misha Glenny  · 7 Apr 2008  · 487pp  · 147,891 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

by Ken Auletta  · 4 Jun 2018  · 379pp  · 109,223 words

First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

by Gary Ginsberg  · 14 Sep 2021  · 418pp  · 134,401 words

Walk Away

by Douglas E. French  · 1 Mar 2011  · 93pp  · 24,584 words

Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager

by Lars Kroijer  · 26 Jul 2010  · 244pp  · 79,044 words

Alex's Adventures in Numberland

by Alex Bellos  · 3 Apr 2011  · 437pp  · 132,041 words

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow  · 14 Oct 2019  · 390pp  · 115,303 words

In-N-Out Burger

by Stacy Perman  · 11 May 2009  · 454pp  · 122,612 words

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis  · 1 Nov 2009  · 265pp  · 93,231 words

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

Siege: Trump Under Fire

by Michael Wolff  · 3 Jun 2019  · 359pp  · 113,847 words

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--And What It Means for America's Power Grid

by Katherine Blunt  · 29 Aug 2022  · 470pp  · 107,074 words

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

by Olivia Laing  · 1 Mar 2016  · 265pp  · 83,677 words

Eastern standard tribe

by Cory Doctorow  · 17 Feb 2004  · 190pp  · 53,970 words

Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers

by Stefan Fatsis  · 27 Jul 2001  · 385pp  · 25,673 words

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-And What We Can Do About It

by Jennifer Breheny Wallace  · 21 Aug 2023  · 309pp  · 86,747 words

Life Will Be the Death of Me: ...And You Too!

by Chelsea Handler  · 8 Apr 2019  · 211pp  · 66,203 words