Mike Chapple, Ph.D., CISSP, is a University of Notre Dame Teaching Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations. Mike worked with the National Security Agency's information security research branch for four years before joining the United States Air Force as an intelligence officer.

For nearly thirty years, James Michael Stewart, CISSP, CEH, CHFI, and Security+ has worked with technology. His work is mostly concerned with security, certification, and various operating systems.

Darril Gibson, CISSP, is the CEO of YCDA, LLC and regularly writes and consults on a wide range of technical and security topics. He also holds a number of other certifications such as MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD, MCITP, ITIL v3, and Security+.

David Seidl, CySA+, CISSP, PenTest+, is Miami University's Vice President for Information Technology and CIO.

There are two bestselling CISSP guides in one serious study set. This value-packed set for the serious CISSP certification candidate combines the best-selling (ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, 9th Edition with an updated and refined collection of Practice Exams to provide you with the best preparation for the high-stakes CISSP Exam ever.

The current 2021 CISSP Body of Knowledge has been thoroughly revised in the (ISC)2 CISSP Study Guide, 9th Edition. This best-selling Sybex study book covers every exam objective. Sybex's expert content, real-world examples, tips on passing each area of the exam, access to the Sybex online interactive learning environment, and much more will help you prepare for the exam smarter and faster. Use key topic test fundamentals and chapter review questions to reinforce what you've studied.

You also get access to Sybex's superior online interactive learning environment, which includes four practice exams, each with 125 unique questions to help you identify where you need to study more, more than 1000 Electronic Flashcards to reinforce your learning and give you last-minute test prep before the exam, and a searchable glossary in PDF to give you instant access to the key terms you need to know for the exam.

Add to that the revised (ISC)2 CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Practice Tests, 3rd edition, which includes four more complete 125-question examinations and another 100 questions for each of the eight domains, and you'll be fully prepared for the CISSP exam.

All of the practice questions in both volumes have been vetted again for 2021 by various CISSPs and instructors, with only the best questions from previous editions retained to ensure that the questions you practice with provide you with the greatest possible preparation.

Because each book covers all of the exam topics, you'll be prepared for:

• Asset Protection and Risk Management
• Architecture and Engineering for Security
• Identity and Access Management in Communication and Network Security (IAM)
• Security Evaluation and Testing
• Operations of Security
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Author: Mike Chapple, James Michael Stewart, Darril Gibson and David Seidl

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Information-Security-Professional-Official/dp/1119790026/

Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars (from 566 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #6,931 in Books

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Josh Bauerle is a CPA and the creator of CPA on Fire, a tax and accounting firm that focuses on working with online entrepreneurs. Josh has held a variety of accounting positions over the course of his ten-plus years in the field, including cost accountant at a Fortune 500 corporation, auditor and tax preparer at a public accounting firm, financial counselor, and finally, owner of his own firm.

Meet Josh Bauerle, a reluctant accounting student turned super CPA and third-edition author of Accounting QuickStart Guide. This groundbreaking book skillfully simplifies accounting concepts and is a vital resource for accounting students, business owners, bookkeepers, and other financial and record keeping professionals throughout the world! This book will be invaluable on your journey, whether you are a business owner trying to improve your bottom line or an accounting student looking to improve your grade.

Why is Accounting QuickStart Guide so popular among accounting students, business owners, and finance professionals? Accounting QuickStart Guide debunks the idea that accounting is boring, opaque, and difficult to master. Josh Bauerle simplifies accounting's key principles with amusing stories and examples, as well as clarifying graphics and practice problems—all of which work together to give learners with a road to fast and successful mastery of the content. The book is regarded as one of the best books on financial auditing.

You'll Discover:

• Classic Double-Entry Accounting's Logic and Methods!
• Business Entity Types: Benefits, Drawbacks, and Financial Statements!
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• How to Fraud-Proof Your Company Using Simple Accounting Techniques!

Author: Josh Bauerle CPA

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Accounting-QuickStart-Guide-Simplified-Professionals/dp/1945051795/

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars (from 854 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #17,218 in Books

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Shanda is now pursuing her dream of becoming a writer, speaker, and world traveler. Shanda has 20 years of expertise leading teams in the disciplines of environmental science and government performance auditing. She is an advocate for personal and professional development and enjoys assisting others in becoming effective leaders. Shanda assists public and corporate leaders who struggle with low performers or find it difficult to provide critical criticism in order to establish flourishing productive teams that meet expectations and produce amazing achievements.

Are you a rookie manager or an experienced manager who has been assigned to a new team? Do you have feelings of overwhelm or self-doubt? Are you unsure where to begin?

You will learn how to establish a high-performing team by reading From Supervisor to Super Leader:

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If you want clear and easy-to-implement practices, then From Supervisor to Super Leader is the book for you.

Shanda K. Miller's book will teach you the skills she learnt as a team leader in her 20+ years of expertise. Lessons that will change your professional life.

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Author: Shanda K. Miller

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Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars (from 484 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #17,933 in Books

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Mike Michalowicz (mi-CAL-low-wits) co-founded Profit First Professionals, a membership organization of accountants, bookkeepers, and business coaches that teach the Profit First technique.

Do you fear that your company may fail without your regular presence? Are you sacrificing your family, friends, and independence in order to keep your business running? What if, instead, your business could run itself, allowing you to do what you love when you want as it grows and profits? It's conceivable. And it's a lot simpler than you think.

If you're like most entrepreneurs, you established your company to be your own boss, make the money you deserve, and live life on your own terms. In fact, you're buried in the daily grind, continuously putting out fires, answering a never-ending stream of queries, and looking for income.

Mike Michalowicz, author of Profit First and other small-business best-sellers, now presents a simple step-by-step solution to this quandary. In Clockwork, he draws on more than six years of research and real-world examples to describe his straightforward method to increasing the efficiency of your organization.

Among other effective tactics, you will learn how to:

• Make your employees think like business owners: Free yourself from micromanagement by implementing a simple strategy that allows your employees to make sound decisions without your intervention.
• Determine the most crucial role in your company: Unleash extraordinary efficiency by identifying and focusing everyone on the single most important function to your firm.
• Determine what has to be fixed next: Most entrepreneurs attempt to address every inefficiency at once and end up doing nothing. Use the "weakest link in the chain" strategy to determine which fix will add the greatest value right now.
• Clockwork is your route to finally making your business work for you, whether you have a team of one, one hundred, or somewhere in between, whether you're a rookie entrepreneur or have been overworked and overstressed for years.

Author: Mike Michalowicz

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Design-Your-Business-Itself/dp/0525534016/

Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars (from 718 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #22,327 in Books

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Schilit Forensics, an investment research consultancy, is founded and led by Dr. Howard M. Schilit, PhD, CPA. He is a pioneer in the detection of accounting fraud, and he has testified before Congress and the SEC. He previously formed and led CFRA and taught at American University.

Schilit Forensics' Jeremy Perler, CFA, CPA, is a partner. He formerly worked with Coatue Management, CFRA, and PwC. He has served on FASB and PCAOB advisory panels. Schilit Forensics' Yoni Engelhart, CFA, is a partner. He formerly worked with Partners Capital, Wellington Management Company, and CFRA. He is a Harvard Business School graduate.

This fourth edition of Financial Shenanigans illuminates the most horrific frauds and financial reporting violators of the last twenty-five years, and provides investors with the tools they need to detect:

• Corporate cultures that encourage dishonest behavior
• The latest techniques used by businesses to inflate revenue and profitability
• Management techniques for manipulating cash flow as readily as earnings
• Businesses that employ deceptive measures to deceive investors about their financial success
• How firms use acquisitions to conceal underlying business degradation

Among the best books on financial auditing, Financial Shenanigans focuses on the most relevant case studies and lessons learned over the last quarter century, bringing you up to current on accounting sleaze in global markets. Howard Schilit and his team of recognized forensic accounting experts identify financial reporting fraudsters and reveal the most recent techniques firms employ to deceive investors. You'll learn everything you need to know to spot false reporting and avoid costly blunders.

Author: Jeremy Perler and Howard Schilit

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Shenanigans-Fourth-Accounting-Gimmicks/dp/126011726X/

Ratings: 4.6 out of 5 stars (from 355 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #54,017 in Books

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Mike Michalowicz (mi-CAL-low-wits) is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, Clockwork, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, as well as the founder and CEO of two multimillion-dollar firms. He hosts the American Express Turning Points podcast and is a popular speaker who has presented his business and entrepreneurship views at TEDx, CreativeLive, INCmty, and other events. His articles have featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Box Pro magazine, Entrepreneur, OPEN Forum, Harvard Business Review, and others.

Entrepreneurs' biggest challenge is that they don't know what their largest problem is. What do you repair first if you're stuck between stagnant sales, high employee turnover, and dissatisfied customers? Every problem appears to be important, yet there is no way to solve them all at once. The end result? A company that keeps going in circles, putting out critical fires while emphasizing the wrong things.

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Mike has established a devoted following over the last decade for his hilarious, honest, and actionable ideas delivered through the experiences of actual entrepreneurs. Now, Fix This Next provides a simple, one-of-a-kind, and incredibly powerful business compass that has already helped hundreds of businesses advance to the next level and will do the same for you. Immediately.

Author: Mike Michalowicz

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Fix-This-Next-Change-Business/dp/0593084411/

Ratings: 4.7 out of 5 stars (from 445 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #76,415 in Books

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Jim Campbell is the host of Business Talk with Jim Campbell, a nationally syndicated radio show. He is known for his tough interviews with major individuals from business, politics, and sports.

No name is more associated with Wall Street's crimes than Bernie Madoff's. Arrested for fraud in 2008, during the height of the global financial crisis, the 70-year-old market maker, investment counselor, and former chairman of the NASDAQ had orchestrated the greatest Ponzi scheme in world history, defrauding thousands of investors worldwide for $65 billion. Questions linger to this day: What motivated him to do it? How long did he get away with it? What information did his relatives have? Who is the enigmatic Bernie Madoff?

Author Jim Campbell gives the most thorough insider account of the Madoff saga to date in one of the best books on financial auditing- Madoff Talks. Based on exclusive interviews with all of the key participants, including the Madoff family and their colleagues, Wall Street wheelers and dealers, an army of lawyers, analysts, and investigators, victims of the fraud, and Bernie Madoff himself, the book reveals:

• what drove a well-known financier to conduct such a large scam, and why did he believe he could get away with it?
• despite many SEC probes, how Madoff managed to keep the scam hidden in plain sight

• the catastrophic failings of Wall Street oversight and how they could occur again
• the full magnitude of the investment losses, as well as the victims' continued quest for justice
• what Ruth Madoff and her family knew and how it ruined them life

Madoff Talks includes the author's first, and most likely only, interviews with Ruth Madoff and defense counsel Ira Sorkin, for which Bernie waived attorney-client privilege, as well as never-before-published details from the author's personal correspondence with Bernie Madoff while incarcerated. The book is a vivid, dramatic work of investigative reporting that takes us beneath the headlines to illustrate the true human cost of Madoff's crimes, as well as a cogent critique of the reforms required to prevent it from happening again.

Author: Jim Campbell

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Talks-Uncovering-Biggest-History/dp/126045617X/

Ratings: 4.2 out of 5 stars (from 260 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #113,194 in Books

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Mark J. Nigrini, PHD, is an Associate Professor of Auditing and Forensic Accounting at The College of New Jersey. His current work focuses on forensic and continuous monitoring approaches, as well as advanced theoretical work on Benford's Law. Dr. Nigrini's Benford's Law and forensic accounting research has appeared in academic journals as well as professional accounting and auditing magazines. His work has been discussed in newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and he has been interviewed on radio and television.

Forensic Analytics, with over 300 photos, examines and demonstrates how twenty substantive and rigorous tests can be used to detect fraud, errors, estimations, or biases in your data. The original data for each test is displayed, along with the methods required to obtain the final result. The tests range from high-level data overviews to check data consistency to very specialized tests that provide small samples of extremely suspect transactions. These tests are applicable to your organization, whether large or little, for business, nonprofit, or government-related.

Forensic Analytics reveals how you can:

• In a forensic scenario, use Access, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• To detect fraud and errors, use statistical approaches such as Benford's Law, correlation, and time-series analysis.
• Use one of numerous statistical tools to detect financial statement fraud.
• Assess the fraud risk of divisions, locations, agents, or customers.
• Develop your organization's data analytics expertise.

Forensic Analytics demonstrates how to uncover extraordinary, irregular, and abnormal records using Microsoft Access and Excel as your primary data interrogation tools.

Author: Mark J. Nigrini

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Analytics-Techniques-Accounting-Investigations/dp/0470890460/

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars (from 58 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #128,033 in Books

#20 in Financial Auditing (Books)

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W. Steve Albrecht was the Andersen Distinguished Professor of Accountancy at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.

Dr. Chad O. Albrecht, associate professor and MBA program director at Utah State University, earned his Ph.D. from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and currently teaches forensic accounting, strategy, and ethics.

Dr. Conan C. Albrecht teaches enterprise development, middleware, business programming, and technology security at Brigham Young University.

Brigham Young University's Mary and Ellis Professor is Dr. Mark F. Zimbelman (BYU). He teaches auditing and fraud examination classes and conducts research solely on fraud.

With the current edition of Albrecht/Albrecht/Albrecht/Crime Zimbelman's EXAMINATION, 6E, you may learn to identify, detect, investigate, and prevent financial fraud now. As you become a better interviewer, a stronger and more suspicious document examiner, a better technology user, and a more educated decision maker, you will gain fraud abilities. Examine and comprehend the various types of fraud and the nature of fraud investigation today using current business examples and several genuine fraud cases presented first-hand from the authors' experience.

Fraud Examination examines today's most essential fraud ideas, with a focus on the rapidly expanding areas of ebusiness and cyber fraud. Significant discussion introduces you to forensic analysis as well as legal possibilities for fraud victims. A new conversation also focuses on how professionals utilize technology to commit and identify fraud. It is one of the best books on financial auditing.

Author: W. Steve Albrecht, Chad O. Albrecht, Conan C. Albrecht and Mark F. Zimbelman

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Examination-W-Steve-Albrecht/dp/1337619671/

Ratings: 4.6 out of 5 stars (from 183 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #154,151 in Books

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Hans Greimel is an award-winning American business journalist based in Tokyo. He is the Asia Editor for Automotive News, where he oversees coverage from Japan, China, and South Korea. He has been writing about Nissan and the alliance for over a decade, and he has interviewed Carlos Ghosn several times, including one-on-one following Ghosn's arrest.

William Sposato is a Tokyo-based correspondent and consultant who has worked in Japan for over two decades, holding high positions at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently a writer for Foreign Policy magazine and a regular contributor.

Even more stunning was his dramatic escape from Japan, when he was packed into a box and flown to Lebanon on a private jet after months in a Japanese prison cell subsisting on rice gruel.

This is the story of what happened before and after the Ghosn Shock. Ghosn spent two decades constructing a massive alliance between Nissan and Renault that appeared to be a new paradigm for global industry, but the alliance's gleaming image masks a shaky, stressful operation. Culture clashes, infighting among executives and engineers, competing business traditions, and political maneuvers all posed continual risks to the venture.

Journalists Hans Greimel and William Sposato have been following the topic closely, gaining access to crucial actors such as Ghosn himself. They are veteran Tokyo-based reporters who have witnessed the end of Japan's bubble economy and attempts to open Japan Inc. to the rest of the globe. They've witnessed the unravelling of keiretsu, Japan's traditional skein of business links, and covered various corporate scandals, the most notable of which being the Ghosn Shock and Ghosn's eventual escape.

Collision Course delves into the intricate questions around what and who was truly responsible for Ghosn's departure, as well as why one of the world's top leaders would risk everything to flee the nation. It explores how economics, history, national interests, cultural politics, and arrogance converged to squish the legacy of possibly the most important foreign businessman to ever set foot in Japan.

This thrilling, unforgettable story, full of fascinating characters, serves as a cautionary tale, object lesson, and forewarning of the increasing complexities of managing global business in a nationalistic world.

Author: Hans Greimel and William Sposato

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Collision-Course-Carlos-Culture-Upended-ebook/dp/B08CWY3FPX/

Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars (from 167 reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #194,202 in Kindle Store

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