Role of Forensic Accounting in Fraud Detection in Retail Organizations in Australia

Research Project title
Your name
Student Number
BUS707 Applied Business Research

Introduction to the research
• Forensic Accounting has capability to detect frauds in
financial accounting for financial data and information
representation.
• The scholar will aim at collecting data from across retail
organizations in Australia specifically Sydney.
• The problem that is evaluated in this study is analysing ways
I n which forensic accounting can help detection of frauds.
• The study will analyse research question, post which a
literature will be developed and research methodology will
be ascertained to arrive at findings relative to the study.

Research Problem & Research Objectives
Research Problem:
Rising frauds across organizations in Australia concerned with financial
information that are furnished to investors and other users of financial
information.
Research Objectives :
1. To understand the role of forensic accounting in fraud detection
2. To analyse ways in which forensic accounting contributes to analysis of
frauds