FAE Headquarters: LSU Accounting Department
“What the use of finger prints was to the 19th century and DNA analysis was to the 20th, forensic accounting will be
to the 21st century.”
- Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 10 October 2006.
Yes, forensic accounting techniques might have saved Arthur Andersen. Forensic identifiers may have discovered the bad accounting and fraud at Enron, WorldCom, Xerox, and the other ones. We are talking about the corporate scum of the earth (worse than aliens and eight legged freaks). [Of course, ethics would have helped.] Forensic accountants may be described as financial detectives and litigation support warriors. Forensic accountants cover all areas of accounting: auditing, cost accounting, taxation, information systems, etc.
So where can you study from these forensic accounting extraordinaries - those men and women in black? Those defenders of corporate governance. At LSU, of course. Two of them are David Hayes and Larry Crumbley, as they act out their parody on the home page. There's no Kay, but there's a Lou and Nick Apostolou too. We have Anglea Woodland and Captain Skip Hughes. Here is what these forensic accountants recommend to study forensic accounting, to help rebuilt our accounting profession's reputation. [Guns are not provided, but talent is.]
FAE Armory
There will be a huge shortage of forensic accountants as the accounting profession incorporates forensic identifiers and techniques into external and internal auditing. Be there or be left out! Develop forensic accounting knowledge and be rewarded. Be a forensic accountant extraordinaire.
Graduate Forensic-type Courses *
Acct
7235 …. Fraud Auditing
Acct 7222 …. Auditing Theory and Standards
Acct 7110 …. Tax Research
Acct 7244 …. Systems Auditing
Socl 7491 …. Seminar in Criminology
Undergraduate Forensic-type Courses
Acct
4235 …. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting
Acct 3222 …. Auditing
Acct 4225 …. Research in Federal Income Taxation
Acct 4244 …. EDP Auditing
Fin 4830 …. Analysis of Corporate Financial Statements.
Mgt 4203 .... Commercial Transactions for Accountants.
Mgt 4523 …. Legal Issues in Human Resource Management
Phil 4010 .... Logic
Socl 4461 …. Criminology