Volume : III, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Corporate Scandals and Forensic Accounting

Prof. Dr. Vandana K. Mishra

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Recently, the corporate world has witnessed many ups and downs. The stock markets have crashed, and the corporate sector has been plagued by huge business scandals. Today forensic accounting is a highly talked about topic all over the world and is the fastest growing area of accounting. In most of these corporate scandals and failures, accounting fraud has been the main problem. Accounting fraud can come in a variety of ways. The way accounting is practiced or the interpretations that may give different prescriptions in similar situations are some dark areas that may open some scope for the corrupted accountants. The paper discusses various aspects of forensic accounting, the need and the role it can play in solving the annoyed problems of the corporate world. An important accounting technique that is being strongly advocated and much talked about Forensic Accounting

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PROF. DR. VANDANA K. MISHRA Corporate Scandals and Forensic Accounting International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 9 September 2014

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