Financial Forensics/Forensic Accounting Academy™
Co-Sponsored by financialforensics^® and Financial Forensics Academy (FFA)

Contributing to the war against financial crime.

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Your clients’, the courts’, and the public’s expectations reach far beyond your core expertise whether auditing, tax, business advice, valuation, litigation, or any other service. Such expectations are no surprise since forensic accounting is now a household term.

Media coverage of global economic crises, high-profile corporate failures, institutional collapses, and other financial catastrophes have conditioned the public to “think” that all CPAs, regulators, law enforcement specialists, et al. possess scientific financial forensics expertise. Consequently, the public, i.e., your clients, “think” and expect that you will deliver all your professional services from a foundation of forensic accounting.

Therefore, you are “expected” to apply, deliver, and discuss many of the 250-300+ commonly applied financial forensics tools, e.g., styleometry, TATA (and its variations), aberrant pattern detection, invigilation, digital analysis, ICE/SCORE©, financial profiling, CRO, computer forensics, cascading pools, full-and-false inclusion, behavior detection, delete windows, RSF, Internet sleuthing, et al. The majority of the tools and techniques have been widely applied for decades, yet virtually unknown to the financial community. Even more importantly, such tools and techniques are size-independent, i.e., they apply to all client matters ranging from a one-chair beauty salon to a global Fortune 500 company.

Curiously, the accounting profession has reinforced such perceptions despite failing to provide specific guidance in the form of tools and techniques. Specifically, virtually every accounting periodical devotes space to financial forensics, forensic accounting, and related subjects. Further, all CPE providers offer various courses on the subject or some derivative. Finally,
accounting graduates are increasingly attracted to firms offering such services.

To date, the accounting profession has yet to offer a cogent, comprehensive, financial forensics/forensic accounting methodology by which accountants can guide and refine their forensic accounting craft. Likewise, defending (both in and outside court) one’s core expertise continues to be more challenging without independently codified benchmarks within a formalized “body of knowledge.”

However, this program* changes it all . . . this intensive four-day (not including night assignments) program is the only program of its kind in the United States. It takes participants immediately into detail and delivers specific forensic accounting tools and techniques that are immediately applicable to virtually all aspects of the accounting profession. The techniques are applicable to auditing, tax, valuation, litigation, and fraud and virtually every aspect of CPA services. By contrast, virtually every other program contains content too general and too narrowly focused.

financialforensics©, supported by team of 15 financial forensics/forensic accounting specialists from throughout the U.S., has developed the only software-based civil/criminal financial forensics/forensic accounting methodology in existence, called Forensic Accounting/Investigation Methodology© (FA/IM©). 

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