Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Digital Forensics

Overview

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.
 

Highlights

• Forensic Accounting
• Accounting
• Auditing
• Finance

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Accountants, Finance Professionals, Auditors

Objectives

• 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

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by ACPEN. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.