Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner? Make Room For The Forensic Accountant

When you think about accounting, what may first come to mind may be number crunching, expense reporting or tax season. Admittedly, these are generally all true; however, I would like to introduce you to another side of accounting.

As some people may think of it, "accounting" may be little more engaging than tediously counting widgets or searching through endless paperwork to find journal entries to explain a one hundred dollar discrepancy. "Accounting," as it relates to financial loss or damages quantification, might use the same boxes of paperwork, in conjunction with external information to build a case. This change in approach and our intentions makes what we do an entirely different discipline. In the accounting family, we like to think of ourselves as the intriguing distant cousins who are invited occasionally to social functions because everyone at the table is afraid of what we will say next...