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