This major is preferred to become a forensic accountant.
What is accounting?
100
This is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.
What is white-collar crime?
100
This company was convicted in 2001 for their elaborate scheme through the use of accounting loopholes, special purpose entities and poor financial reporting, senior executives were able to hide billions in debt from failed deals and projects.
What is Enron?
100
This is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright owner's exclusive rights.
What is copyright infringement?
100
This hit TV series on the USA network features a forger and thief, that is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI.
What is White Collar?
200
This is an important trait of a forensic accountant that makes them interested in learning more about a case.
What is curiosity?
200
This is any crime committed by an individual from a lower social class.
What is blue-collar crime?
200
Bernard Madoff was caught implementing this type of scheme in 2008.
What is a ponzi scheme?
200
This is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behavior of the recipient
What is bribery?
200
This movie, released in 2010, follows an investment banker that alerts the impending doom of the financial market.
What is Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps?
300
This is the average starting salary for a forensic accountant.
What is $30,000 to $60,000?
300
This organization provides a nationwide support system for agencies involved in the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of economic and high-tech crimes.
What is National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)?
300
This organization launched a formal investigation against WorldCom in 2002.
What is the SEC?
300
This is the act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets by one or more individuals to whom such assets have been entrusted.
What is embezzlement?
300
This TV show's purpose is to profile and assist law enforcement in the apprehension of fugitives wanted for various crimes.
What is America's Most Wanted?
400
These two certifications are accepted to become a certified forensic accountant.
What is a Certified Fraud Examiner or CPA?
400
This law increased the severity of penalty for crimes performed in conjunction with organized crime.
What is RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act?
400
This is the amount of money Bernie Madoff was prosecuted for stealing from his clients.
What is $65 billion?
400
This is the trading of a corporation's stock or other securities by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company.
What is insider trading?
400
This television series debuted in 1990 and is ended its 20-season run on May 24, 2010.
What is Law and Order?
500
This university in South Carolina offers an Executive Masters of Forensic Accounting.
What is the University of Charleston?
500
White collar crime cost the United States this amount annually.
What is $300 billion?
500
This is the name of Allen Stanford's firm that sold $8 billion worth of so-called ‘certificates of deposit’ to investors, promising improbable and unsubstantiated high returns that never materialized.
What is Stanford International Bank?
500
This is the concealing the source of illegally gotten money.
What is money laundering?
500
In a post-Watergate era full of government cover-ups both perceived and actual, this fictitious organization tapped into a conspiracy theory that existed decades before Richard Nixon moved into the Oval Office: the FBI holds evidence of extraterrestrial life.