Master [Financial Criminology] From Universiti Teknologi MARA

Due to heightened awareness and growing intolerance of fraudulent activity, demand for Forensic Accountants is rapidly increasing. Thus, forensic accounting and fraud investigation is one of the fastest growing areas of accounting, and there is an increasing global demand for specialists with forensic accounting knowledge and skills. The course will help you develop an understanding of the need for an holistic approach in the investigatory models applied as well as focusing on an appreciation and understanding of the wide variety of financial crime and how the current regulatory framework and crime control statutes have developed to deal with them. Through examining features of corporate integrity and management control systems you will gain an understanding of the development and needs of corporate governance in the context of the control theories of the firm.

The postgraduate program (by research) in Accounting requires students to attend research workshops and research seminars conducted by the postgraduate office, the faculty and ARI. Students will present research proposal in the second semester during their first year. Student progress is regularly monitored by the faculty supervisory committee and the coordinator of postgraduate (research). Each postgraduate student has a main and second supervisor. He or she may appoint one external supervisor outside UiTM.