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OUR 2025 FORENSIC ACCOUNTING SECTION RESEARCH CONFERENCE
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Our 2025 Research Conference will be held February 20-22, 2025 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The conference will consist of keynote speakers, concurrent sessions dealing with a wide variety of fraud, forensic, and investigative accounting topics, panel discussions, case work, and other scholarly/teaching activities.

We look forward to seeing you in St. Petersburg, Florida! Click HERE to explore all that St. Petersburg has to offer.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Be a part of the meeting and submit your work to the conference for any of the following:

Completed Research

Teaching Cases

Class Materials

Research in Progress

Panel Discussions

We strongly encourage PhD Students and their advisors to consider submitting work in progress for presentation or the forum. If you are a PhD student (or advisor), please include this information in the field labeled "Paper in Progress” on the submission form.

The submission deadline is Monday, November 11, 2024 at 11:59 pm Eastern.

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About
About
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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Governance

Officers and Committees

Bylaws

Operations Manual

Volunteer Opportunities

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News
News
News Items

Current Spring 2022 Newsletter Newsletter Archive

Inside This Issue:

A Message from the Almost Past President

Honors and Awards

Upcoming Events

NACVA Membership Offer

2021-2022 Officers

2022 Mid-Year Conference

Call for Submissions JFAR

Membership Information
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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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Take advantage of all the benefits that AAA membership has to offer:

Access to the Digital Library where all AAA publications are searchable and downloadable.

Reduced member pricing for article submission fees to select AAA journals.

Enhance your career with our online Career Center. Members can post one resume for free.

Receive registration discounts on many of our meetings and low cost Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.

The opportunity to volunteer for Association-wide committees, serve in Section and Region leadership roles, and network and connect with colleagues at Association meetings.

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Publications

Publications

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

A journal of the Forensic Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research promotes excellence in the research, teaching, and practice of forensic accounting, with a balance among basic research, practice, and education. In addition, forensic accounting research is to be broadly conceived, and not limited to fraud research. JFAR is online-only and publishes annually.
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Journal Information

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Editor

Zabihollah Rezaee
The University of Memphis
P: 901.237.4972
E: zrezaee@memphis.edu

James A. DiGabriele
Montclair State University, Dept. of Accounting & Finance,
Montclair, NJ, USA
E: digabrielej@montclair.edu

Editorial Office

JFAR@aaahq.org
Editorial Board
Impact and Journal Report

Call For Papers

Special Topic: Taxation and Forensic Accounting

Special Topic: Whistleblowing and Forensic Accounting

Special Topic: Behavioral Aspects of Forensic Accounting

Special Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility and Forensic Accounting

Special Topic: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Forensic Accounting

Special Topic: Forensic Accounting in a Digital Environment

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Awards
Awards
Call for Awards

Best Research Paper Award at Research Conference

Best Research Paper Award at the AAA Annual Meeting

Best Teaching Innovation Award

The Timothy Pearson Dissertation Award

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2024 AWARD RECIPIENTS:

Best Research Paper Award (at the Research Conference)

Qualitative Analysis of Risk Disclosures Post Security Breach

Sunita Goel, Siena College, Nishani Edirisinghe Vincent, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Best Research Paper Award (AAA Annual Meeting)

The Impact of Foreign Laws on U.S Firms: Evidence from the U.K. Bribery Act

Amanda Sanseverino, Manhattan College

Best Teaching Innovation Award

Diagnosing Fraud at Decision Diganostics: A COVID-19 Case Study

Paul E. Ordyna, University of South Dakota, Scott C. Johnson, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Srinivasan C. Ragothaman, University of South Dakota

The Timothy Pearson Dissertation Award

Investigation of the Severity of Embezzlement as Predicted by Demographic Variables

David P. Weber, Salisbury University

Award Archives

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Research

Research & Teaching

JOURNAL OF FORENSIC ACCOUNTING RESEARCH (JFAR)

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research promotes excellence in the research, teaching, and practice of forensic accounting, with a balance among basic research, practice, and education. In addition, forensic accounting research is to be broadly conceived, and not limited to fraud research. JFAR is online-only and publishes annually.

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For PhD Students

We strongly encourage Ph.D. Students and their advisors to consider submitting work in progress for presentation at the FA Section Research Conference. If you are a PhD student (or advisor), please include this information in the field labeled "Additional Information I do not know" on the submission form.

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Resources

Syllabus Exchange

Presentation: Non-Fraud Research Opportunities in Forensic Accounting Research

Quicklinks

Officers and Committees

Committee Chairperson

Regional Directors

Objectives

The Forensic Accounting Section is dedicated to the continual improvement of forensic accounting research and education, through the encouragement, development, and sharing of:

The promotion and dissemination of forensic and investigative academic and practitioner research.
The relevant and innovative curricula with an emphasis on effective and efficient instruction.
The exploration of knowledge-organization issues related to forensic accounting programs.
The creation and presentation of CPE courses to members and professionals.

Forensic Accounting often intersects with other professions including those of 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.

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President

Debra Sinclair

University of South Florida

Past President

Chih-Chen Lee

Northern Illinois University

Vice President

Vice President-Practice

Andi McNeal

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Vice President-Academic (President-Elect)

Sridhar Ramamoorti

University of Dayton

Treasurer

William Black

University of North Georgia

Secretary

Alyssa Ong

Pepperdine University

Council Representative

Richard Riley

West Virginia University

Senior Co-Editor

Journal of Forensic Accounting

James DiGabriele

Montclair State University

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Zabihollah Rezaee

University of Memphis

Editor

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Jillian Alderman

Pepperdine University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Vida Botes

University of Waikato

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Donald Crumbley

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Carol Dee

Stetson University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Timothy Fogarty

Case Western Reserve University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Graham Gal

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Gaurav Gupta

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Lisa Jack

University of Portsmouth

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Chih-Chen Lee

Northern Illinois University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Peter Lohrey

Sacred Heart University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Sridhar Ramamoorti

University of Dayton

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Richard Riley

West Virginia University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Charles Russo

Towson University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Vijay Sampath

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Eileen Taylor

North Carolina State University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

Joseph Zhang

Bowling Green State University

Associate Editor-Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

David Ziebart

University of Kentucky

Chairperson

Publications Committee

Chih-Chen Lee

Northern Illinois University

Journal

Journal of Forensic Accounting Research

The Journal of Forensic Accounting Research is the new journal of the Forensic Accounting Section.

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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING SECTION RESEARCH CONFERENCE

2024 Forensic Accounting Research Conference

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Join Forensic Accounting

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-for-profit, 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.