Abstract: Lebanon has long been suffering from corruption among the various public organizations. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion on the urgent need for forensic accounting in the public sector in Lebanon to uncover any suspicious accounts at the Banque du Liban (BDL). Thus, the Lebanese government made a contract with Alvarez and Marsal to conduct a forensic audit at the BDL. At this, many financial and economic experts demanded to let local experts do it and save the high fees that Alvarez and Marsal will charge the government, especially that Lebanon has a problem in the availability of US Dollars. The researchers asked whether or not members of the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants (LACPA) have the necessary requirements to practice forensic accounting....
Keywords: forensic accounting, investigations, courts of law, LACPA
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