The Fraud Examiners Manual is the global standard for the anti-fraud profession. Because no other work provides such a comprehensive guide for the anti-fraud professional, every fraud-fighter should keep a copy in their library.

This 2,000-page guide is divided into four main sections:

• Section I: Financial Transactions and Fraud Schemes: Describes hundreds of fraud schemes, as well as providing information about basic accounting concepts and managers and auditors responsibilities to detect fraud.
• Section II: Law: Focuses on the statutes and common law principles involved in prosecuting fraudsters through both the criminal and civil systems, as well as legal pitfalls you may encounter in conducting an investigation.
• Section III: Investigation: Provides the basic tools and techniques necessary to gather information and evidence when conducting a fraud examination and identifying perpetrators. The appendix contains a sample fraud examination report, fraud examination checklist and sample engagement and opinion letters.

• Section IV: Criminology and Ethics: Discusses why people commit crime and what can be done to stop them, including developing corporate compliance programs. It also includes fraud statistics and analyses of organizational and occupational crime.

Important updates for 2008 include:

• PCAOB Audit Standard No. 5
• GAO Yellow Book Standards
• E-Discovery Rules in Federal Litigation
• Revised Guidelines for Prosecuting Organizations (the McNulty Memo)
• Pretexting Legislation
• IRS Whistleblower Program
• Updated statistics, websites, and software programs

The 2008 Fraud Examiners Manual is a comprehensive guide that fully explains the latest information on fraud examination techniques, methods, and procedures. More than three-quarters of the CFE Examination is drawn directly from the Fraud Examiners Manual!