Fraud Auditing Using CAATT: A Manual for Auditors and Forensic Accountants to Detect Organizational Fraud is for all students and professionals looking to become more proficient at CAATT testing. After providing you with background information and the pedagogical approach used to develop the book, Fraud Auditing Using CAATT deals with fraudulent disbursements, financial statement fraud, and corruption schemes, it presents a general discussion of Computer-Assisted Audit Tools and Techniques (CAATT) and step-by-step instructions on how to perform ten CAATT-based audit tasks and tests using IDEA V.10. The final chapter outlines a "lab" exercise that the author assigns every semester in his own Fraud Examination course. For instructors, this exercise combines not only a research component, but is a very effective means of helping students better relate to his other course material. And because the lab output is a group oral presentation deliverable, it provides students an opportunity to also exercise their group management and oral presentations skills. To get the most out of Fraud Auditing Using CAATT, make sure to get a demo copy of your preferred CAATT software and begin practicing with it in frequent and short practice sessions. It is fairly easy to choose one of the ten demonstrated audit tests and practice performing it within a 20- to 30-minute self-study session.

All students and professionals looking to become more proficient at CAATT testing will benefit from Fraud Auditing Using CAATT, You can use it as not only a training and reference tool for audit and fraud examination professionals but also a useful primary or supplementary textbook for graduate and undergraduate accounting and audit courses at various universities. Book jacket.