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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The integration of accounting, auditing and investigative skills yield the specialty known as Forensic Accounting. Forensic Accounting provides an accounting analysis that is suitable to the court which forms the basis for discussion, debate and ultimately dispute resolution. It encompasses both litigation support and Investigative Accounting. It is a specially practiced area of accounting that describes engagement that result from actual or ...

Abstract This study investigated the effects of forensic accounting in fraud detection.  Data was collected from the staff of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with the aid of questionnaire as the research instrument. The objectives of the study are; to determine the chances of fraud discovery through forensic accounting in the petroleum sector, to help in narrowing the audit expectation gap and to ascertain forensic accounting techniques like motive evidence, audit trail etc to ...