Forensic Accountant

Forensic Accountant

Forensic Accountant means:
a person who applies accounting principles, theories, and discipline to facts and hypotheses at issue in a legal dispute. The forensic accountant melds the skills of an investigator and those of an accountant to look behind the numbers and the financial statements. For example, a forensic accountant may be used to detect the ploys that people use to hide their earnings and assets during a divorce. These professionals, sometimes called investigative accountants or litigation support, should include the investigative accountants within the U.S. Internal Revenue Service who carry out the analyses necessary to support charges of tax evasion against taxpayers The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants publishes Litigation Services, a journal devoted to forensic accounting.

See Offshore Bank in the American Encyclopedia and Offshore Bank in the World Encyclopedia.

See Tax Evasion in the U.S. Encyclopedia of Law and Tax Evasion in the World Encyclopedia of Law.


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