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Blind Spots by Bazerman and Tenbrunsel: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Bazerman and Tenbrunsel on why people fail to do what is right, summarised for auditors: bounded ethicality, ethical fading, motivated and indirect blindness, the studies and their replication…
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32–48 minutes -
Corporate Fraud Handbook by Joseph T. Wells: Summary for Internal Auditors
The fifth edition of the ACFE founder’s handbook, summarised for auditors: the three categories, every scheme with a detection test and a control, the 2024 and 2026 ACFE…
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24–36 minutes -
Financial Shenanigans by Schilit, Perler and Engelhart: Summary for Auditors
The fourth edition of Schilit’s catalogue of accounting gimmicks, summarised for auditors: the fifteen shenanigans, the cases and what regulators found, the forensic mindset, a vocabulary, an audit…
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27–40 minutes -
No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Markopolos’s account of exposing Madoff, summarised for auditors: the red flags, the SEC inspector general’s findings, the aftermath to 2026, nine ideas, a vocabulary, an audit map and…
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29–43 minutes -
Extraordinary Circumstances by Cynthia Cooper: WorldCom, Summarised for Auditors
The memoir of WorldCom’s head of internal audit, summarised for auditors: the 2002 investigation against the official record, what the investigators found about the function, nine ideas, a…
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29–43 minutes -
Why They Do It by Eugene Soltes: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Soltes’s study of why executives commit white-collar crime, summarised for auditors: the argument against the calculating offender, the cases, a vocabulary, a fraud-assessment map and a worked example…
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18–27 minutes -
Lying for Money by Dan Davies: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Davies’s economics of fraud, summarised for auditors: the Canadian paradox, the four types (long firm, counterfeit, control fraud, market crime), the cases, a vocabulary, a type-by-type audit map…
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19–29 minutes -
Billion Dollar Whale: The 1MDB Scandal, Summarised for Auditors
Wright and Hope’s account of Jho Low and 1MDB, summarised for auditors: the four diversions, the gates that failed and the two that worked, a vocabulary, a failure-by-failure…
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19–28 minutes -
Money Men by Dan McCrum: The Wirecard Fraud, Summarised for Auditors
Dan McCrum’s account of the Wirecard fraud, summarised for auditors: the timeline, the mechanics, the seven gates that failed, a vocabulary, a failure-by-failure audit map and a worked…
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Auditing Trading Floor Controls: Limits, Confirmations and the Rogue Trader Playbook
Every large trading loss that was not simply a bad bet shares a pattern: a trader who understood the control environment better than the people running it, a…
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23–35 minutes -
Auditing Insurance Claims: The Core Process From First Notice of Loss to Settlement
Claims is the insurer’s product delivered: the promise sold at underwriting is kept or broken by an adjuster, under time pressure, with authority to spend the company’s money.…
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Internal Audit in Retail: The Complete Guide to Stores, Shrink, Omnichannel and Supply Chain
Retail is the industry of small transactions at enormous volume, performed by a workforce that turns over every year in locations head office rarely sees, and internal audit’s…
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How to Audit Capital Projects and Construction: Cost, Contract and Schedule Controls
Capital projects are where organizations spend their largest discretionary sums through contracts they rarely understand, administered by people who want the building finished, and the result is that…
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CIA vs CFE: Assurance Generalist or Fraud Specialist?
CIA vs CFE compared: exams, eligibility, points, costs, CPE and career paths, plus when an internal auditor should hold both credentials and in what order.
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Financial Statement Fraud: How the Numbers Get Cooked, and Who Should Catch It
The financial reporting branch of the fraud tree: the five mechanisms and their mirror images, who commits it and the pressures that produce it, the cases from Enron…
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Procurement Fraud Schemes: Bid Rigging, Kickbacks and Phantom Vendors, and How to Find Them
The corruption branch of the fraud tree with a purchase order attached: bid rigging in its four forms and the indicators, kickbacks and price creep inside the tolerance…
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19–29 minutes -
When Internal Audit Finds Fraud: The First 48 Hours Protocol
What to do in the two days after an auditor realises the anomaly is fraud: the threshold that triggers the protocol, the four rules of the first hour,…
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The ACFE Fraud Tree Explained: Every Occupational Fraud Scheme, With Controls and Analytics
The ACFE fraud tree walked branch by branch: corruption, asset misappropriation and financial statement fraud, every named scheme with how it works, who commits it, the red flags,…
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How to Run a Fraud Risk Assessment: Method, Workshop Plan and Register Template
A practitioner’s method for the fraud risk assessment: what it is and is not, who owns it, the seven-step method with hours, the scheme library that seeds the…
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How to Audit Payment Operations and Wire Transfers: Stopping the Nine-Figure Mistake
The internal auditor’s guide to payment operations and wire transfers, for banks and corporates: the eight-stage payment life cycle and the rails, who bears the loss under UCC…
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The CFE for Internal Auditors: Is It Worth It, What the Exam Tests and How to Earn It
Is the Certified Fraud Examiner credential worth it for an internal auditor? Who gains from it, the three-section exam and where you have already met the material, ACFE…
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The P2P Fraud Analytics Catalog: Cross-Stage Tests That Catch Collusion
The collusion-sensitive layer beyond single-table AP tests: twenty cross-stage procure-to-pay analytics that join requisitions, orders, receipts, invoices, payments, the vendor master, bids, and the employee master, each with…
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The Journal Entry Analytics Catalog: Risk-Scoring the General Ledger
Twenty-five journal entry analytics tests in four families, each with logic, data, threshold, what a hit means and its false positives, anchored to the entry characteristics in PCAOB…
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19–29 minutes -
A Fraud Red Flags Library by Business Cycle: 48 Flags, a Triage Method, Six Worked Cases
Forty-eight fraud red flags across seven cycles, each paired with its confirming test, plus a four-step triage method that scores clusters, six flags from worked engagements (three real,…
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The Payroll Analytics Catalog: 30 Tests for Ghost Employees and Beyond
Thirty payroll analytics tests in five families, each with its logic, data, threshold, what a hit usually means and what produces false positives; the five datasets and the…
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The Accounts Payable Analytics Catalog: 40 Tests With Logic
Forty accounts payable analytics tests in six families, each with its logic, the data and threshold it needs, what a hit usually means and what produces false positives;…
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How to Audit Purchasing Cards: Small Transactions, Big Leakage, and a Worked Engagement
The purchasing card audit as an analytics engagement: the design trade, the configuration controls, a nine-control starter matrix, the abuse catalog, sizing, a twelve-test program, the full-population analytics…
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19–28 minutes -
How to Audit the Vendor Master File: Verification, Bank Changes and a Worked Engagement
The vendor master is the authentication layer of every payment. This guide covers onboarding verification, the payee-change fraud vector and its controls, a verification record template, duplicate and…
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How to Audit Procurement: Sourcing, Bidding and Contract Award, With a Worked Engagement
The front end of purchase-to-pay: where procurement risk lives, the bid-rigging red flags, sole-source discipline with a justification memo template, conflicts of interest, a 14-test program, the analytics…
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How to Audit Travel and Expense: Policy, Fraud, Analytics and a Worked Engagement
A practitioner’s guide to auditing travel and expense: the policy-design review, approval integrity, a seven-control starter RCM, the full analytics catalog, MidState Beverage’s worked engagement test by test,…
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19–29 minutes