Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Digital Forensics

Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in financial reporting misconduct. Forensic accountants apply a range of skills and methods to determine whether there has been financial reporting misconduct. Financial forensic engagements may fall into several categories. For example:

• Economic damages calculations, whether suffered through tort or breach of contract.
• Post-acquisition disputes such as earnouts or breaches of warranties
• Bankruptcy, insolvency and reorganization
• Securities and tax fraud
• Money laundering
• Business valuation
• Computer forensics/e-discovery

This session is designed to delve into further investigative procedures used including digital forensics. Future sessions will focus on computer forensics, network forensics and mobile forensics.
 

• Delivery Format: Live Webcast Replay

• Explore and examine the history of digital forensics
• Discover and define the digital forensic process
• Explore and examine application of digital forensics
• Identify and define types of digital forensics
• Identify digital forensic tools
• Explore and examine digital evidence

• Forensic Accounting
• Accounting
• Auditing
• Finance