Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations by Mark J. Nigrini

Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations Mark J. Nigrini ebook
ISBN: 0470890460, 9780470890462
Format: pdf
Page: 481
Publisher: Wiley

First, a short Fingerprinting is by far the most well known, and perhaps oldest technique we forensic scientists use, dating from the 19th century. Forensic analysis of GSR is, as you can imagine, really very good. Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations. So it falls to us as budding forensic scientists and secondary investigators to gather the crucial evidence instead. Examining source documents is critical to finding out what really happened with the money. The application of forensic investigation methodology to the eDiscovery process can help both legal and their processes;; forensic tools and techniques have been used in the collection, analysis and presentation of evidence in the legal phases of eDiscovery and the forensic investigation methodologies that can be applied to those phases. The information and maintaining a strict chain of custody for the data.” Cloud forensics can also be considered as a subset of network forensics, since network forensics deals with forensic investigations in any kind of network, be they private or public. Cloud computing, in turn, is based on broad network access, and thus follow the main principles found in the network forensic process with some techniques custom tailored for the cloud computing environment. Fortunately, modern scientific methods have made our job a little easier to catch suspects red- (or yellow, as you'll see) handed after the fact. The identified and analyzed, metadata should be taken into account and data recovery may be required. Old Fashioned Investigations The old way of investigating fraud – the one that requires manual data analysis – is tried and true. This paper describes the detailed forensic methods and expertise used by the Smithsonian Institution's Feather Identification Lab to identify the bird that caused this bird-strike incident. There are two major problems, however, with relying solely on traditional investigative methods. Many of the techniques used by forensic accountants to investigate fraud and analyze the numbers are the same today as they were decades ago.