Tipped off by a newly hired comptroller that certain accounts were out of whack, he hired a forensic accounting firm to do some digging.

FORBES: Can You Believe Those Revenues?

Companies such as FTI Consulting and Huron Consulting, which advise firms and boards on litigation, forensic accounting and many other issues, have never had it so good.

ECONOMIST: Management consulting

Beyond validating the inclusion of HP on our risk list, the announcement provided the latest illustration of the importance of forensic accounting in the analysis of issuer risk.

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Eight months later Berman added CFRA, a forensic accounting outfit.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Criminal Investigative Division of Internal Revenue Service (IRS-CI) does not just investigate tax fraud, but because of their renown skills for forensic accounting they are often used by prosecutors to investigate complex financial crimes.

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Moreover, because the marquee financial statement fraud cases of the early 2000s were a significant driver of growth in white collar defense and forensic accounting practices, the decline of those kinds of cases has been duly noted in professional circles.

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Practitioners have noted this shift, as have the experts and forensic accountants who were in the thick of many of these accounting battles.

FORBES: Accounting Fraud Cases Are Dead. Long Live Accounting Fraud Cases.