Forensic Focus - June 2009Cutting through the smoke and mirrors |
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It is great to take time out every now and then and focus on achievements.
Bernard Madoff’s $US50 billion ponzi scheme in the United States and the $1 billion Satyam fraud in India have generated considerable headlines over the last few months. In this newsletter we describe how managers commit financial statement fraud and indicators that may help you identify it occurring.
Interviewing people is, often an unrealised, integral part of many peoples jobs. Our team attended a one-day in-house interview training session led by Don Rabon, a leading instructor of interviewing techniques. Some of our staff also attended a further two-day session lead by Don that was open to the public. Don is from the United States and has trained US Secret Service, FBI, NATO, US Army, the CIA and a number of other law enforcement and security agencies. The training session was focussed on detecting deception, which is a critical skill when interviewing suspects and others in investigations. We highlight some key points that you can apply to your interviews.
We are delighted to become the first private sector provider in New Zealand to obtain Encase Enterprise, enabling our forensic team to review electronic evidence on multiple computers at once. Jon Pearse spent two weeks in Sydney, completing training and accreditation as part of this process. We feature the benefits of completing computer forensic activities at an enterprise or network level in this newsletter.
Deloitte’s Forensics team in New Zealand and Australia recently took part in the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Cup 2009, an event described as the “Analytics Olympics”. The KDD Cup required analytics teams from industry and academia around the world to develop the most accurate model for predicting future events, such as a customer taking their business to a competitor. We highlight the KDD Cup and the commercial value in being able to apply this predictive modelling technology for improving your credit scoring, collections, human resources, operations, fraud, etc.
I hope you enjoy the read.
Kind regards,
Barry Jordan and team
Forensic Focus - June 2009
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