Corporate Fraud Exposed
A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach
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Section 1: Nature of FraudChapter 1. Corporate Fraud Exposed: An Overview; H. Kent Baker, Lynnette Purda, and Samir Saadi Chapter 2. Types of Corporate Fraud; Halil Kiymaz Chapter 3. How Fraud Offenders Rationalize Financial Crime; Iva Charlopova, Paul Andon, and Clinton Free Chapter 4. Accounting Principles and Corporate Fraud; Kirsten L. Anderson Section 2: Causes and Determinants of Corporate Fraud Chapter 5. Corporate Culture and Fraud; Ellie Chapple, Kathleen Walsh, and Yun Shen Chapter 6. Corporate Governance and Fraud; Ali C. Akyol Chapter 7. National Culture, Legal Environment, and Fraud; Chen Liu, Serena Shuo Wu Chapter 8. Agency Theory and Fraud; Chiraz Ben Ali Chapter 9. Executive Influence and Fraud; Philip R. Jones, Joseph Monts, and Andrew C. Spieler Section 3: Consequences of Corporate Fraud Chapter 10. Corporate Political Connections and Corruption; Matthew Boland Chapter 11. The Spillover Impact of Corporate Fraud on Peer Firms; Tashfeen Hussain Chapter 12. Crowdfunding Without Crowd-fooling: Prevention is Better Than Cure; Sondes Mbarek and Donia Trabelsi Section 4: Corporate Fraud Detection and Prevention Chapter 13. Corporate Whistleblowing: Towards a Regulatory Approach; Anita Anand Chapter 14. Forensic Accounting and Fraud Deterrence; Casey D. Evans Chapter 15. Cyber Security and Corporate Fraud; James K. Hayes Chapter 16. Law Enforcement Agencies and Corporate Fraud; Robert A. Warren and Michael Pakaluk Chapter 17. Financial Statement Fraud: Motivation, Methods, and Detection; S. David Young Section 5: Corporate Fraud in Practice Chapter 18. Accounting Scandals: Enron, Worldcom, and Global Crossing; Steven Petra and Andrew C. Spieler Chapter 19. Panama Papers and the Abuse of Shell Entities; Carl Pacini and Nicole Forbes Stowell Chapter 20. Stock Option Manipulations; Haifa Amairi, Boushra El Haj Hassan, and Janelle Mann Chapter 21. Satyam Scandal; Yan Luo and Linying Zhou Chapter 22. Corporate Fraud: The Cases of Barings Bank, Volkswagen, and HIH Insurance; Sayan Sarkar and Andrew C. Spieler Section 6: Future Research Issues Chapter 23. Corporate Fraud: Avenues of Future Research; Nadia Smaili, Julien Le Maux, and Walid Ben Amar
‘This book presents important insights into the causes and consequences of corporate fraud. The chapters encompass many useful empirical observations, as well as key case studies. It is an important resource for academics, practitioners, and policymakers alike.’
'Corporate Fraud Exposed offers valuable insights on a wide cross section of timely, cutting-edge, fraud-related topics from essential background including causes and consequences, to detection and prevention, while highlighting case studies and areas for future research. From industry professionals to interested investors, readers will find this comprehensive work, from a mix of talented academics and practitioners led by highly accomplished co-editors, both intriguing and informative. As the editors point out, fighting fraud remains a never-ending battle with fintech and data analytics representing the latest battlefronts.’
‘This book is a unique one-stop-shop for understanding corporate fraud that provides a breadth of perspectives from a variety of academic disciplines. Summarizing the latest research and grounded in empirical data, the book provides valuable insights for students, academics, policymakers, investors, and practitioners alike.’
‘This book provides a timely reminder of the inevitability of fraud, the costly societal consequences, and what can and can’t be done to detect and mitigate it. Readers will appreciate the multi-disciplinary and global perspective, that brings together research on well-known frauds of the past with frauds of the future enabled by technology (e.g. ‘crowdfooling’), showcasing evolving opportunities to address, from transparency, to whistleblowing to analytics.’
'This is a terrific book! It not only demystifies and explains the phenomenon of corporate fraud but also exposes its complex and multifaceted nature. It covers cutting edge topics (e.g., cyber-fraud and “crowd-fooling”) on corporate fraud and uses detailed illustrations of major corporate scandals to demonstrate the global nature of fraud. The book’s clarity and comprehensive coverage of fraud make it a valuable reference for practitioners, policy makers, academics and graduate students alike.'
'This book provides a wide-ranging coverage of the costly and growing epidemic afflicting the corporate and financial worlds: Fraud. An exceptional and coherent collection of well-researched chapters, Corporate Fraud Exposed reveals the pervasiveness of fraud and its dreadful impact on corporations and their stakeholders. It also offers an in-depth analysis of how fraud is committed and what can be done to prevent its occurrence in the first place. Given its holistic and forward-looking perspective, this book is valuable to academics, students, professionals as well as policy makers.'