The comparison of independent audit and forensic accounting in terms of exposing fraud

Abstract

Exposing end preventing fraud has become important because of the corporation scandals in recent years. Hence, forensic accounting field has been discussed more in preventaion of fraud and the role and responsibility of independent auditor in preventing fraud has been indicated clearly with SAS No 99 issued by AmericanInstitute of Certified PublicAccountants (AICPA), ISA 240 issued by The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and Communique Serial: X, No:22 issued by Capital Market Board. In this paper, independent audit and forensic accounting are compared within some criteria that they are generated by, in terms of their roles in exposing fraud. According to the results of comparisons, there are significant differences between independent audit and forensic accounting with regards to the criteria such as purposes, hypothesize, implementation processes, information sources, materiality and sampling methods.