0 someone whose job is examining financial records to help find out whether a crime has been committed, or to help with a legal case: --
The museum hired a forensic accountant to investigate the disappearance of the funds.
1 someone whose job is to examine financial records to find any illegal financial activity: --
The department has asked a forensic accountant to help with the investigation.
Some forensic accountants specialize in forensic analytics which is the procurement and analysis of electronic data to reconstruct, detect, or otherwise support a claim of financial fraud.
Forensic means suitable for use in a court of law, and it is to that standard and potential outcome that forensic accountants generally have to work.
Each case is assigned a team of attorneys, paralegals, specialized support staff, and consultants, which may include forensic accountants, private investigators, and business or scientific experts.
He convinced his bosses to lend him a pair of forensic accountants normally used in fraud investigations, believing that they could easily pinpoint conspirators in the family's money laundering schemes.
Its case teams are therefore made up of investigators, lawyers, law clerks and forensic accountants.
Even though forensic accountants need to analyze and compare financial statements most cases of fraudulent activity will not be in plain sight.
Forensic accountants must be able to work independently and be able to travel at least 10-15% of the time.
Some forensic accountants acting as consultants are not paid on salary and are rather contracted to do a specific task for a company.
