Forensic Accounting

Postgraduate | 2026

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Your studies will be on-campus, and may include some online delivery
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Area/Catalogue
ACCT 6004
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Course ID
202440
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Campus
Adelaide City Campus West
Level of study
Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
Course owner
Course owner
School of Accounting and Fin
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Course level
2
Work Integrated Learning course
Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
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Yes
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University-wide elective course
Yes
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Single course enrolment
Yes

Course overview

Failure, Fraud and Forensic Accounting seeks to provide an introduction to the processes and practices used to enable the prevention, detection and investigation of failures or fraud within accounting systems. It will cover relevant aspects of internal controls, common types of financial failures and frauds experienced by organisations, and the processes for investigating and prosecuting frauds.

Prerequisite(s)

  • must have completed ACCT5001 Accounting Concepts and Methods

Corequisite(s)

N/A

Antirequisite(s)

N/A

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