CONDUCTING BUSINESS INVESTIGATIONS

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MANAGEMENT OF INTERNAL BUSINESS INVESTIGATIONS

The Authority On Conducting The Internal Business Investigation

By Richard B. Cole

 

 

Internal business investigations and security procedures is the subject of this excellent material. The text focus is on management and investigative techniques and processes which can help assure that the business investigator does not become a pawn within the larger management structure without realizing it happened and the establishment of investigative protocols and practices that are most effective in a business environment. A more advanced manual related to the management of business investigations, this work provides the essential knowledge to keep the investigation on track and clear from the power structures of influence.

 

 

• BUSINESS REALITY VS. THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
• CORPORATE PHILOSOPHY ON INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
• BASIC CONCEPTS ON INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
• BASIC RULES OF CONDUCT
• INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS
• RECORD KEEPING AND ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS
• A SYSTEM OF INVESTIGATIVE CLASSIFICATION
• CHARACTERISTICS OF SPECIAL SITUATIONS
• DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM OF PRECEDENT
• INTEGRATION OF THE INVESTIGATIVE AND ETHICS PROCESS
• USING QUALITY MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

 

The investigation of inappropriate acts by an individual within a business is on the raise and becoming an important aspect of private investigation and private security. This book hands you a knowledge base to conduct and manage the investigation effectively. The work is brimming with bulleted strategic checklists, solutions based questionnaires, highly effective illustrations woven into a knowledge base that will serve you well. 168 pages, clothbound. $75.00
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There are a few good books on the market on how to go about conducting assets investigations but this manual goes way beyond that. It's a step-by-step techniques and procedures manual on how to go about conducting financial fraud investigations for the investigator. This manual reveals how to go about uncovering the evidence in embezzlement and financial fraud cases like no other and is based on the thirty year expertise of the author.

CHAPTERS INCLUDE

This manual is brimming with little known investigative techniques and procedures used to uncover financial fraud and provides the investigator with practical examples and exercises making it one of the best manuals to be developed on financial investigations to ever be published. It covers business records, evidence collection and accumulation, and a unique investigative accounting section the author calls: "Painless Accounting." With this manual, you gain 30 years of intensive financial fraud investigative experience from the author who's background includes financial investigative expertise with the IRS, Master's degree in accounting, and as Chief Fraud Auditor with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. 8 1/2 X 11, 156 pages, glossary, Appendixes. $45.00
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• INTRODUCTION: Why the demand for business intelligence information. The major groups of clients who need the information. Different types of business intelligence investigations.
• GATHERING INFORMATION FROM PEOPLE SOURCES: How to develop and where to look for people sources and how to interview them after you find them.
• GATHERING INFORMATION FROM THE BUSINESS AND IT'S TRADE SOURCES: Why an in-person check gives you information you can not get any other way and what to look for. Checklists for developing key information. How to develop a business's weak points. Trade sources and tools. Trash detail.
• GATHERING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FROM
• PRIVATE SOURCES: This chapter describes and gives details of major online information providers and searches along with actual examples of reports. Dun's, Thomas Register, Corporate Affiliations, Standard and Poor's, Trident, Business Dateline and SIC codes are covered.
• COMMERCIAL CREDIT REPORTS: What they are, where to get them, how to use them and actual examples are covered. Also describes is how to go about obtaining a commercial credit check on a foreign business.
• DISCLOSURE AND THE SEC: Public company information sources from the SEC. How and where to obtain this information and actual examples of reports.
• PUBLIC RECORDS INFORMATION: How to develop all sorts of public records information online including, state corporate filings, state sales tax, judgements, bankruptcy, tax liens and UCC filings. Actual examples and sources for information are given.
• PURE NEWS SOURCES: Online and offline sources for news about a company. Lists of clipping services you can use. How to set up an online electronic clipping service
• CONFERENCE ON COLLECTING BUSINESS INFORMATION: An actual question and answer conference that took place on Compuserve. Panel includes Ralph Thomas and Sue Rugge.
• SOURCES OF INFORMATION: Online sources and other reading material on business intelligence.

This manual is designed to give you hands on training on the subject of business intelligence gathering. You'll find sources of information, example reports and checklists that will make the collection of business intelligence data a very easy and simple process. With NAIS certificate of completion offered in Business Intelligence Gathering. $35.00
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SECRETS OF ASSETS SEARCHING
The Techniques & Formulas That Uncover Hidden Assets Information Locate Bank Accounts, Conduct The Right Computer Searches And UseThe Best Pretexts To Develop The Financial Information You Need
By: Ralph D. Thomas
Assets searching has become a major mainstay in private investigative practice. Secrets Of Assets Searching is designed to provide you with various formulas and techniques that will enable you to conduct assets searches with ease and provide you with solutions to uncovering a subject's true financial picture. Through examples and explanations of knowing exactly where to look, you'll be in a position to determine things like your subject's current bank account information, current employer and current income. You will also uncover fast ways to develop assets information such as real property, connections to corporations and businesses, and ownership of vehicles, boats and planes.

The chapter outline includes: Introduction, Understanding Market Forces For The Demand For Assets Searching, Understanding Public Records Searching, Understanding Credit Bureau Information and How To Obtain Legal Access, Understanding And Using Pretexts & Interviews To Obtain The Information You Need, Understanding & Using Different Assets Formulas To Obtain The Information.

With Secrets Of Assets Searching, you will learn the various techniques of information hunting that can be put together in different kinds of formulas that will uncover the information you are after. You'll learn four basic different kinds of information sources that can be utilized to develop pieces of an assets puzzle so you'll be in a position to uncover and report the whole picture like never before. Aside from the formulas and techniques described and examples given, the text is designed so you will be in a position to modify and improve upon the actual investigative processes explored to meet your own individual needs in developing assets type information. When you are done reading this material, we know that you'll agree that you have learned some of the top secrets in the information and investigative industry. With certificate of completion issued in Assets Searching. $35.00
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This manual is brimming with little known investigative techniques and procedures used to uncover financial fraud and provides the investigator with practical examples and exercises making it one of the best manuals to be developed on financial investigations to ever be published. It covers business records, evidence collection and accumulation, and a unique investigative accounting section the author calls: "Painless Accounting." With this manual, you gain 30 years of intensive financial fraud investigative experience from the author who's background includes financial investigative expertise with the IRS, Master's degree in accounting, and as Chief Fraud Auditor with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. 8 1/2 X 11, 156 pages, glossary, Appendixes. $45.00
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