The Forensic Accounting Section
Enhanced Threat Detection with Inspectors General
FA Section Workshop #8
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Our workshop at the AAA Annual Meeting will provide accounting academics with a lens into the emerging methodologies used by inspectors general (IG) including:
- Practitioners from the inspector general profession will offer insight into the advanced data analytics leveraged by the PRAC an the PACE.
- Valuation and damage calculation approaches employed in benefits and grant fraud cases.
- Available opportunities for academic-IG collaboration and student experiential understanding, including Pathways.
- Provide academics with an understanding of the who, what, when, where, why, and how of audit and fraud examination tasks by inspectors general.
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Our Mission and Vision
The mission of the Forensic Accounting Section (FAS) of the American Accounting Association is to foster excellence in the teaching, research, practice, continual professional education (CPE) courses and curriculum development of forensic accounting services by creating opportunities to:
- Create relevant and innovative curricula with an emphasis on effective and efficient instruction.
- Explore the knowledge-organization issues related to forensic accounting programs
- Promote and disseminate forensic and investigative academic and practitioner research.
- Promote the practice of forensic accounting services understanding that these professions often intersect with other professions including: the law, criminology, sociology, psychology, intelligence, information technology (open sourcing, cyber-crime, digital evidence, data mining, and IT systems and control), computer forensics, and other forensic sciences.
- Create and present CPE courses to members and professionals.
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Discover why the FAS Section is one of the AAA's fastest growing sections!
Forensic accounting touches all areas of the AAA: financial, behavioral, taxation, auditing, not-forprofit, information systems, international accounting, and management accounting. The Forensic Accounting Section (FAS) enables members to share classroom best practices and provides a linkage between the classroom and practitioners in an inclusive environment.
The annual FAS mid-year conferences provides the opportunity to present research, but is much more than research. Former speakers and panelists include Aaron Beam, former Controller of HealthSouth and author of The Wagon to Disaster; Greg Regan, Hemming Morse, San Francisco, CA, USA; Jordan Thomas, Labaton Sucharow, the attorney who was the main writer of the whistleblower legislation; editors of journals; trial lawyers and expert witnesses; and even a former fraudster.
The FAS is well represented at the AAA Annual Meetings. There are at least four concurrent sessions (some of which are panels), a fun happy hour, and a Forensic Accounting Section Boot Camp
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