The Forensic Accounting Section

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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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.

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.

Submit Your Work Today!