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This final chapter summarizes all the critical issues discussed in the book. A number of recommendations for future success in private internal investigations by fraud examiners are presented.

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Gottschalk, P. (2018). The Investigation Business. In: Investigating White-Collar Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68916-6_13

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