Forensic accounting deals with investigative strategies and techniques designed to detect and report on financial fraud and white collar crime. Financial statement fraud, securities fraud, employee theft, money laundering and transnational fraud, e-commerce fraud and insurance fraud will be examined in terms of motivations, symptoms and detection. Investigative techniques, interviewing witnesses and perpetrators, evidence collection and evaluation, legal report writing and testifying are skills required by forensic accountants and will be developed in students by this subject. The importance of establishing policies for fraud prevention is emphasised.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Accounting and Finance
Available to postgraduate students only.
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The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.