Forensic accounting and fraudulent practices in the Nigerian public sector

The Impact of Management Control Systems on Contemporary Management Accounting Practices in the Public Sector

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the interactive and diagnostic use of management control systems on the adoption and success of contemporary management accounting practices in the public sector. Contemporary management accounting practices includes: benchmarking, activity-based costing, the balanced scorecard, value chain analysis, total quality management, key perform...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Forensic Accounting a Panacea to Alleviation of Fraudulent Practices in Nigeria

Fraudulent practices among Nigerians are major challenges facing the development of the country. The federal government has been making several efforts by setting up many anti corruption institutions to reduce cases of fraud and other economic crimes but the efforts seemed not to have been effective. This study attempts to look at the relevance of forensic accounting in the effective reduction ...

Detecting Patterns of Fraudulent Behavior in Forensic Accounting

Often evidence from a single case does not reveal any suspicious patterns to aid investigations in forensic accounting and other forensic fields. In contrast, correlation of sets of evidence from several cases with suitable background knowledge may reveal suspicious patterns. Link Discovery (LD) has recently emerged as a promising new area for such tasks. Currently LD mostly relies on determini...

The Prevention and Investigation of Fraudulent Accounting Practices