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The thousands of mergers, acquisitions, and start-ups that have characterized the past years of business have created an increasing number of corporations in financial trouble: specifically, a shortage of venture capital or quick cash.

Institute a proactive reputational management framework that matches individual behaviour to organizational values The Business Ethics Twin-Track is a practical guide to reputational risk management.

? Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages through strategy realization. ? Step-by-step direction and examples for creating strategy alignment and designing a supply chain that goes beyond supporting your operations.

The comprehensive guide for CFOs who need an overview of leadership basics from strategies to management improvement tips Filled with pragmatic insights and proactive strategies, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Third Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion.

* Completely revised and updated, the Fourth Edition reveals how to develop an investigative eye toward both internal and external fraud and provides crucial information on how to deal with it when discovered.

Discover the tools for knowing the costs your company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services New from Steve Bragg, this book provides the tools for determining which costs a company should cut, without impacting its ability to deliver goods and services.

Few business activities can match Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) in terms of the potential for reward and for danger. A successful merger or acquisition can allow a mid-tier company to leap into the top tier, bringing rich rewards to that company, and its employees and shareholders.

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Compliance Guidebook shows readers how the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has grown to critical importance to any U.S. company that does business in a global environment, as well as foreign companies that supply or have agency agreements with U.S. companies.

Treasury management involves the proper handling of a company's cash, debt, equity, and a variety of exotic derivative products. Unlike other books on treasury management, this book is written by a corporate financial professional to his peers.

The auditor's guide to ensuring correct security and privacy practices in a cloud computing environment Many organizations are reporting or projecting a significant cost savings through the use of cloud computing utilizing shared computing resources to provide ubiquitous access for organizations and end users.

The ultimate guide to investor relations Your one-stop resource for everything pertaining to your company's dealings with the investment community, Running an Effective Investor Relations Department provides investor relations professionals with essential day-to-day information.

Computer Audit, Control, and Security, 2nd Edition describes the types of internal controls, security, and integrity procedures that management should build into its automated systems and that auditors should look for when reviewing those systems.

The best plan is useless without effective execution The future of business has become so unpredictable that your five-year plan may be irrelevant next week. To succeed in the modern market, you must constantly assess your progress and adapt on the fly.

Proven leadership strategies that will impact your career and your company Having the right CFO is a critical component for every company's success. Guide to CFO Success provides CFOs and those in the making with a strategic blueprint to benefit their companies and their careers.

An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movement The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved.

An important guide to the standards of internal control and the risks they mitigate "The concept of internal control is one of the trademarks of effective governance and good business operations. Without a strong system of internal control, organizations cannot ensure that the interests of company stakeholders are being protected. Strong internal controls support organizational goals and objectives, while helping safeguard against the risks of financial loss, operational waste, environmental irresponsibility, corporate fraud, and even reputational damage that can be irreparable. Internal control over financial reporting continues to be a major area of importance in the governance of an organization." --From the Introduction Internal Controls Toolkit is an essential guide for implementing the standards of internal controls that are necessary for any organization that wishes to provide the safeguards necessary to mitigate risk. At once comprehensive and practical, the book offers suggestions for identifying roles and responsibilities within a company, highlights process improvements, ideas for creating process documentation, and analyzing root cause of potential risk.

Everything you need to implement Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) effectively Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication.

Manage client emotions in forensic accounting and fraud investigationsWhile many resources exist that outline the primary functional aspects of conducting a forensic accounting or fraud investigation, this book is the first of its kind in addressing the significance of client emotions during investigations and how important the management of those emotions is to the investigation as a whole. Forensic accounting expert Stephen Pedneault has nearly 30 years of experience conducting such fraud investigations, and has become an expert in this form of holistic engagement management. In this comprehensive resource, Pedneault shares his real-world experiences to help the reader understand exactly what role client emotions can play in a fraud investigation, and how to acknowledge and address the emotions of all parties right from the start.Included in the book are pragmatic strategies for managing emotions throughout an engagement, starting with the initial client meeting. Readers will also learn how to develop their own personal approach to managing individuals' emotions throughout an investigation, which has proven to be much more effective than ignoring or underestimating the role that emotions can play. The book:* Is the first resource specifically addressing client emotions in fraud investigations* Includes tips for dealing with emotions and managing expectations from the initial meeting* Prepares practitioners for future engagements with a new, unique perspective on managing emotions* Helps fraud investigators and forensic accountants develop their own personal approaches to dealing with individuals and their emotionsFor accountants, auditors, fraud investigators, and others in the field, this complete, groundbreaking resource is the quintessential guide to managing client emotions in forensic accounting and fraud investigations.

The latest best practices for ensuring total compliance through effective IT audits Information Technology Best Practices for Auditors and Managers is a comprehensive guide to uncovering risk and fraud in IT.

How to Conquer the Effective Frontier and Drive Improved Value in Global Operations Growth has slowed. Volatility has increased and the world is more global. Brands are defined by innovation and services. Supply chain excellence matters more than ever. It makes a difference in corporate performance.

This publication focuses on the critical methods that can be used to dramatically improve the fiscal closing process.The Record to Report (R2R) or Fiscal Closing Process is at the core of the controllership function. The process includes transaction processing, internal and external reporting, and the internal controls--the people, processes, and technology--that constitute the corporate organizational hierarchy. CFOs, controllers, and corporate finance departments require timely, accurate, and consistent data to make appropriate operational and strategic decisions and fulfill statutory, regulatory, and compliance requirements with accurate and timely data. The Fast Close Toolkit offers both strategic and tactical suggestions that can significantly improve the fiscal closing process and provides guidance on new legislation requirements, systems and best practice processes. Checklists, templates, process narratives, and sample policies are provided for every component of the fiscal close.Investors and shareholders expect fast and easy access to the data created by current business activities in the information-driven digital age. The Fast Close Toolkit provides the necessary tools and expert advice to improve the fiscal closing process. Authoritative and up to date, this book:* Identifies the bottlenecks that can impact the and improvethe fiscal close process and provides best practices to help alleviate these challenges* Defines the Record to Report (R2R) and recommends the roles and responsibilities for fiscal close processes flow* Offers the internal controls to use for the end-to-end fiscal close process* Describes approaches for risk management, R2R, and fiscal close benchmarking* Identifies KPIs for all aspects of the R2R process* Provides the mechanism for developing a financial close scorecard* Recommends leading practices for both external and internal reporting* Provides guidance on how strategic planning, the budget and forecast processes can be streamlined to enhance the fiscal close and internal reporting resultsWritten by a respected expert on internal controls and the fiscal closing process, The Fast Close Toolkit is a valuable source of information for professionals involved in controllership and have responsibility for the fiscal close.

Simplify and streamline your way to a winning legacy Winning CFOs is a hybrid handbook and toolkit with over 100 lean practice solutions and a wealth of practical tools for senior financial managers of small, midsized and large companies.

Concepts, methods, and issues in calculating the fair value of intangibles Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets is a guide to one of the most challenging aspects of business valuation.

Master new, disruptive technologies in the field of auditingAgile Auditing: Fundamentals and Applications introduces readers to the applications and techniques unlocked by tested and proven agile project management principles. This book educates readers on an approach to auditing that emphasizes risk-based auditing, collaboration, and speedy delivery of meaningful assurance assessments while ensuring quality results and a focus on the areas that pose the greatest material risks to the business under audit.The discipline of auditing has been forever changed via the introduction of new technologies, including:* Machine learning* Virtual Conferencing* Process automation* Data analyticsHugely popular in software development, the agile approach is just making its way into the field of audit. This book provides concrete examples and practical solutions for auditors who seek to implement agile techniques and methods.Agile Auditing is perfect for educators, practitioners, and students in the auditing field who are looking for ways to introduce greater levels of efficiency and effectiveness to their discipline.

Provides knowledge and guidance to valuation practitioners on achieving a new level of professionalism and credibility, as well as to those stakeholders in the valuation process in need of assessing the credibility of an appraiser's work product for decision-making purposes.

Get practical tools and guidance for financial controllership you can put to immediate useThe Controller's Toolkit delivers a one-of-a-kind collection of templates, checklists, review sheets, internal controls, policies, and procedures that will form a solid foundation for any new or established financial controller. You'll get the tools and information you need to master areas like business ethics, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, risk management, security, IT processes, and financial operations.All of the tools contained in this indispensable book were recommended by corporate and business unit controllers from small to medium-sized companies and large, multinational firms. You will benefit from master-level guidance in areas like:* Ethics, Codes of Conduct, and the "Tone at the Top" to support ethical behavior* The operational and financial aspects of corporate governance* The importance of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission Framework* The requirement for entity-level controls* The importance of linking the business plan with the budget processThe Controller's Toolkit also belongs on the bookshelves of finance and accounting students, executives, and managers who wish to know more about the often-complex world of financial controls.

Become the forensic analytics expert in your organization using effective and efficient data analysis tests to find anomalies, biases, and potential fraud--the updated new editionForensic Analytics reviews the methods and techniques that forensic accountants can use to detect intentional and unintentional errors, fraud, and biases. This updated second edition shows accountants and auditors how analyzing their corporate or public sector data can highlight transactions, balances, or subsets of transactions or balances in need of attention. These tests are made up of a set of initial high-level overview tests followed by a series of more focused tests. These focused tests use a variety of quantitative methods including Benford's Law, outlier detection, the detection of duplicates, a comparison to benchmarks, time-series methods, risk-scoring, and sometimes simply statistical logic. The tests in the new edition include the newly developed vector variation score that quantifies the change in an array of data from one period to the next. The goals of the tests are to either produce a small sample of suspicious transactions, a small set of transaction groups, or a risk score related to individual transactions or a group of items.The new edition includes over two hundred figures. Each chapter, where applicable, includes one or more cases showing how the tests under discussion could have detected the fraud or anomalies. The new edition also includes two chapters each describing multi-million-dollar fraud schemes and the insights that can be learned from those examples. These interesting real-world examples help to make the text accessible and understandable for accounting professionals and accounting students without rigorous backgrounds in mathematics and statistics. Emphasizing practical applications, the new edition shows how to use either Excel or Access to run these analytics tests. The book also has some coverage on using Minitab, IDEA, R, and Tableau to run forensic-focused tests. The use of SAS and Power BI rounds out the software coverage. The software screenshots use the latest versions of the software available at the time of writing. This authoritative book:* Describes the use of statistically-based techniques including Benford's Law, descriptive statistics, and the vector variation score to detect errors and anomalies* Shows how to run most of the tests in Access and Excel, and other data analysis software packages for a small sample of the tests* Applies the tests under review in each chapter to the same purchasing card data from a government entity* Includes interesting cases studies throughout that are linked to the tests being reviewed.* Includes two comprehensive case studies where data analytics could have detected the frauds before they reached multi-million-dollar levels* Includes a continually-updated companion website with the data sets used in the chapters, the queries used in the chapters, extra coverage of some topics or cases, end of chapter questions, and end of chapter cases.Written by a prominent educator and researcher in forensic accounting and auditing, the new edition of Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations is an essential resource for forensic accountants, auditors, comptrollers, fraud investigators, and graduate students.

Learn what to expect and what's expected as an expert witness Serving as a financial expert witness or consultant in lawsuits is a stressful, challenging, and tough business. In Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony, financial forensic expert Bradley J.

Features step-by-step guidance for members and executives on preventing and detecting accounting fraud. This title presents guidance to corporate boards and C-suite executives on managing the threat of accounting fraud. It prepares directors and executives for the possibility of accounting irregularities.

A fully updated, step-by-step guide for implementing COSO's Enterprise Risk Management COSO Enterprise Risk Management, Second Edition clearly enables organizations of all types and sizes to understand and better manage their risk environments and make better decisions through use of the COSO ERM framework.