When you hear the word "accountant," do you
immediately imagine a middle-aged gentleman wearing round glasses and a green
eye glow? Maybe your thoughts are focused on finance, taxes and math. In some
circles, accounting has long been perceived as a safe, gentle, stable and
respectable career choice, if not the most linguistic or exciting of the
professions. However, that perception is changing as accountants become
criminals and more and more individuals are increasingly interested in careers
in forensic accounting.
The concept of forensic accounting has a relatively short
but easy history, and it may start with the man who destroyed one of the
biggest fish of them all, Al Capone. Agent J. J Wilson, a U.S. Treasury special
intelligence unit agent, who was tasked with going after the notorious gangster
for tax evasion, which resulted in his conviction and imprisonment.
