FORENSIC ACCOUNTANTS WORKING HARDER IN LIGHT OF RECENT FINANCIAL FRAUD DISCOVERIES
May 1st, 2010
BY KASHMIR HILL
HIGH profile financial scandals are making businesses more aware of the risk of crime in their own companies. Industry insiders in the USA highlight the signs that fraud may be occurring and when it is time to call a forensic accountant. Kashmir Hill reports from New York.
AS financial scandals have piled up around the world in the past two years, businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the ease in which fraud can occur. That has resulted in a boom for forensic accountants who specialise in uncovering deviant financial behaviour.
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