Given the increased amount of attention placed upon Wall Street lately, the need for Fraud Examiners is ever increasing. This is not your average accounting job, where you'll audit clients or help them complete their SEC compliance.
A forensic accountant is a career path not many students take coming out of school, but it's an exciting field that's growing every day. In forensic accounting you can work as a data analyzer, where you can look through documents and see if any patterns arise that are indicative of fraud. Others may take the more active path where you can undergo CIA training in Langley with the SEC. The amount of activity may very but some of the careers with the SEC can involve secretly filming con-men laundering money. All of this can be extremely dangerous and challenge the stereotype that all accounting jobs are boring 'desk jobs'.
Whether your in audit, tax, or any other accounting profession try the following quiz out and see how well your fraud IQ is. Because I've had extensive fraud training, I scored pretty well, but try it and see how it goes.
Test Your Fraud IQ!
Site Sources
Taylor, Dawn, and Andi McNeal. "What's Your Fraud IQ?" Journal of Accountancy. Web. 03 Nov. 2011. <http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2011/Nov/20114391.htm>.
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