Forensic accounting services in English local government and the counter-fraud agenda

Mohd Hadafi  Sahdan; Christopher Cowton; Julie Drake

Forensic accounting services in English local government and the counter-fraud agenda

Mohd Hadafi Sahdan, Christopher Cowton, Julie Drake

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This chapter describes how local government has been subject to budget cuts, wholesale loss of fraud investigators to the Department of Work and Pensions, and of the loss of oversight by the abolished Audit Commission, which has seen the existing fraud capacity limited to a compliance response where the majority of councils have not accessed specialist forensic accountancy services necessary to address current patterns and trends of fraud.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Frauds and Financial Crimes
Subtitle of host publication	Trends, Strategic Responses, and Implementation Issues in England and Wales
Editors	Alan Doig, Michael Levi
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	9
Pages	82-91
Number of pages	10
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003178989
ISBN (Print)	9781032015323
Publication status	Published - 17 Sep 2021

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Forensic accounting services in English local government and the counter-fraud agenda. / Sahdan, Mohd Hadafi; Cowton, Christopher ; Drake, Julie.

Frauds and Financial Crimes: Trends, Strategic Responses, and Implementation Issues in England and Wales. ed. / Alan Doig; Michael Levi. 1st. ed. Routledge, 2021. p. 82-91.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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