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Identifying risk factors for corporate financial fraud

By J. Adrian Aumen, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – In the wake of the global financial crisis, Jennifer Schwartz, a Washington State University associate professor of sociology and expert in crime trends, has secured a grant for more than a half-million dollars to study the risk factors for corporate financial fraud.