The document provides an overview of forensic accounting, defining it as the application of accounting skills in legal matters, particularly in cases of fraud. It outlines types of fraud, such as employee and financial statement fraud, and details the objectives and components of forensic accounting including litigation support, investigative accounting, and computer forensics. Forensic accountants analyze and interpret complex financial data to resolve various legal disputes and provide evidence in court.

1. Forensic Accounting
Basics of
Forensic Accounting

2. What is Fraud?The book ‘A Guide to Forensic
Accounting Investigations’ by
Golden et.al., categorized fraud as a
legal concept. Hence, accounting
professionals consider the idea
foreign to them.
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3. What is Fraud?Fraud constitutes four essential
features: misrepresentation or
omission of an important matter;
scanter or awareness of
misrepresentation; reliance on the
individual who obtains or acquires
the misrepresented information; and
damages or the sustained financial
consequences.
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4. Types of Fraud
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• Employee Fraud or Misappropriation of
Assets
• Financial Statement Fraud

5. Employee Fraud or
Misappropriation
of Assets
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• Also known as retail fraud
• The most typical kind of fraud
• Associated with skimming revenues,
theft of cash or inventory,
embezzlement and payroll fraud
• Involves employees assisting and
instigating individuals outside the
organization to either dupe or swindle
third parties

6. Financial
Statement Fraud
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• Also known as wholesale fraud
• Described with deliberate
misrepresentations or omissions of
important information in financial
reporting to mislead or delude the
user of the financial statement
• Associated with abusing the accounting
standards and guidelines on purpose in
order to manipulate the outcome

7. What is
Forensic
Accounting?
The Association of Certified Fraud
Examiners (ACFE) described forensic
accounting as “the application of
accounting skills to provide
quantitative financial information
about matters before the courts.”
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8. What is Forensic
Accounting?
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• The study of financial fraud and misconduct
• Described by the Association of Certified
Fraud Examiners as:
- A set of skills used in potential or actual civil or
criminal cases, including generally accepted
accounting and auditing ones;
- Determining loss of profits, revenues, property,
or damage;
- Assessment of internal controls, fraud, and
everything else that leads to the applying of
accounting knowledge to the legal system

9. What is
Forensic
Accounting?
Forensic Accounting is an integration
of auditing, accounting, and
investigative skills, and presents an
accounting evaluation that is
appropriate and acceptable to the
court, which will then establish the
basis for discourse, debate, and the
settlement of arguments.
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10. Components of
Forensic
Accounting
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• Litigation support
- entails providing accounting support on
matters concerning current or pending
litigations
• Investigative accounting
- thoroughly examines issues regarding
employee theft, insurance fraud, securities
fraud, etc.
• Computer forensics
- detects even the most encrypted fraud,
ensuring that every dollar that companies earn
is accounted for

11. Objectives of
Forensic
Accounting
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Forensic Accounting aims to determine
the probability and/or extent of the
occurrence of fraud by:
• Analyzing definite financial and non-
financial information
• Checking public records
• Administering fact-finding and admission-
seeking questioning and evaluation

12. Forensic
Accountants
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• Instrumental in the design and
development of programs used in
electronic discovery
• Aside from investigative tasks, forensic
accountants are often called upon for
deterrence programs.
• Resolve criminal investigations,
partnership disputes, personal injury
claims, fraud, matrimonial disagreements,
and loss qualifications through their
findings

13. Forensic
Accountants
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• Gather, analyze, and interpret complex
financial data
• Utilize different economic theories,
financial reporting systems, accounting
and auditing principles, data management
and analysis, and investigative techniques
in order to carry out their duties
• At the end of the forensic accounting
work, they will present a summary of their
findings with supporting evidence.

14. Good fortune is what
happens when
opportunity meets with
planning.
- Thomas Alva Edison
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