Forensic Accounting Research Proposal
1.Scope of Research
Forensic Accounting and Financial Criminology
2. Proposed Research
The Needs of Good Forensic Accounting Skills in Public Sector Working Environment
3.Research
Background
Forensic accounting may not be a new field in accounting. However it becomes so important
recently and has been an interest to various stakeholders, from the government, investors, and
practitioners to regulatory bodies. In public sector, the increment in frauds, money laundering,
corruptions, illegal or unethical acts and other wrongdoings are the main factors to support the
needs of forensic accounting skills in public sector working environment especially public sector
accountants.
This research is to study the needs of good forensic accounting skills in public sector working
environment especially within public sector accountant.
The arise issues are:
a) What are the criteria needed to be a good forensic accountants? b) What kind of frauds that
always connected to forensic accounting? c) What are services that can be provided by public
sector forensic accountants.
Thus, this research is aimed on finding the correlation on the combination variables such as
working experience, additional skills and knowledge from other diciplines that can help to
create the good public sector forensic accountant.
4.Research
Methodology
1. In the early stage, research will be done in the form of pre-masters studies and through
jurnals, books and articles as a basic reference from various information. 2. Questionnaires will
be forwarded to the selected respondents in order to get their feedbacks on issues highlighted.
3. The data from the questionnaire will be analysed. 4. The finding from the final research will
be written in a form of thesis. The final result will unveil the information on what ate the factors
that contribute the public sector accountants in becoming good forensic accountants .