Severance pay is a payment made by the employer when the employee is separated from the job. severance pay was not used to determine a workerâs eligibility for unemployment benefits. benefits. payable in the weeks to which the severance payment is allocated or distributed.
forensic accounting. Definition. A method of accounting that deals with financial procedures that have been challenged or charged as illegal. One example of forensic accounting is examining insurance fraud claims. Related Terms.
Forensic accountants, also referred to as forensic auditors or investigative auditors, often have to give expert evidence at the eventual trial.All of the larger accounting firms, as well as many medium-sized and boutique firms and various Police and Government agencies have specialist forensic accounting departments.ome forensic accountants specialize in forensic analytics which is the procurement and analysis of electronic data to reconstruct, detect, or otherwise support a claim of financial fraud. The main steps in forensic analytics are (a) data collection, (b) data preparation, (c) data analysis, and (d) reporting.