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Could you please answer the following. A digital analysis of the accounts payable of a manufacturing company reveals that four of the company's suppliers have

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A digital analysis of the accounts payable of a manufacturing company reveals that four of the company's suppliers have cheques sent to two post office boxes at the same post office. After further investigations you discover that one post office box is registered under the same name as the CFO's son, aged 10 and another is registered under the same name as the CFO's daughter, aged 6. After searching through documentation of supplier transactions, you suspect that the CFO is sending company cheques to the post office boxes of fictitious suppliers which she collects and somehow deposits into her account. As you are under pressure to meet other deadlines and wish to wrap up this investigation quickly, you ask the CFO to attend your office for an interview. When she arrives at your office, you present to her your suspicions. The CFO quickly becomes upset, protests her innocence and storms out of your office. (1)What steps need to be taken by a forensic accountant or investigator before interviewing a person suspected of committing fraud in a company? (2)List and explain the four (4) characteristics of a good interview? (3)Explain the terms 'Benford's Law' and 'Fuzzy Logic

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