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forensic accounting? |
| Message Name: |
Forensic Accounting/Litigation Support |
| Date Posted: |
03/22/2002 |
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I was just wondering what forensic accounting entails exactly and if law firms give internships to college kids in this area? Thanks. |
| Message: |
I work in this area at a midsize CPA firm in Orange County, California. This involves investigating a company's books to look for irregularites usually per an attorney.
Often a business will be purchased and later the acquiror will not be able to replicate the previous operating results. This leads to a lawsuit and an investigation of the representations made by the seller at the time of the sale. There really is much more than this, but it could fill a book.
Some advice is to get some standard accounting/auditing experience before you move into this field. It is not helpfull to be learning accounting/auditing while you are trying to discover problems in someone's books.
MKF
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