Corporate Fraud Handbook or Appreciative Inquiry

Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection

Author: Joseph T Wells

Learn how to spot the "red flags" of fraud, how to comply with recent regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, and how to develop and implement effective preventative measures. Emphasizing that it is much more cost effective to prevent fraud than to punish it, Corporate Fraud Handbook: Prevention and Detection, Second Edition gives you practical insight into fraud schemes used by employees, owners, managers, and executives to defraud their customers.  This new edition also gives you access to all new statistics from the ACFE 2006 Report to the Nation as well as new cases.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the ACFE
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Asset misappropriations
2	Introduction to asset misappropriations	51
3	Skimming	63
4	Cash larceny	97
5	Check tampering	119
6	Register disbursement schemes	157
7	Billing schemes	175
8	Payroll and expense reimbursement schemes	203
9	Inventory and other assets	241
Pt. II	Bribery and corruption
10	Bribery	273
11	Conflicts of interest	305
Pt. II	Fraudulent statements
12	Fraudulent statements	321
13	Fraudulent financial statement schemes	353
14	Occupational fraud and abuse : the big picture	401
App	Code of business ethics and conduct	415
	Bibliography	427
	Index	435

See also: Macroeconomics or Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination

Author: Bernard J Mohr

Appreciative Inquiry--a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series--is for leaders and organizational consultants who are ready to abandon the familiar tyranny of complex change programs. Recognizing that human systems are constructions of the human imagination and therefore capable of change at the speed of imagination, the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process frees organizations from the restrictive orthodoxy of "deficit based change" and allows them the freedom to mobilize strategic change and focus on the visible and tacit strengths of an organization. AI is capable of engaging whole systems at amazing scales--easily engaging hundreds or sometimes thousands of people, often in a matter of weeks or days, to leverage the positive core of the organization.

Tap into the rich and inspiring "high point" accounts of personal or collective capacity and link this "positive core" to any change agenda. Once you have have determined what is really working, transformations never thought possible are rapidly and democratically mobilized.

"This is a book about the future of organization development. It is a practical guide to appreciative inquiry for organization leaders and organization development professionals and it is a comprehensive explanation at the speed of imagination." --Peter Sorensen, professor and director of the Ph.D. program in organization development and master of science program in management and organization behavior, Benedictine University

Booknews

Watkins and Mohr explain the Appreciative Inquiry approach to complex change that their consulting company is named after. They urge leaders to free themselves from the restrictive orthodoxy of deficit-based change, to mobilize strategic change, and to focus on visible and tacit strengths of the organization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits
	Foreword to the Series
	Introduction to the Series
	Statement of the Board
	Foreword
	Dedication
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Case for a New Approach to Change	1
2	Appreciative Inquiry: History, Theory, and Research	13
3	Appreciative Inquiry As a Process	35
4	Choose the Positive As the Focus of Inquiry	53
5	Inquiry into Stories of Life-Giving Forces	75
6	Locate Themes That Appear in the Stories	113
7	Create Shared Images for a Preferred Future	133
8	Find Innovative Ways to Create that Preferred Future	151
9	Evaluation	181
	References and Bibliography	211
	About the Authors	217
	About the Editors	221
	Index	225