In the 18 chapters in this volume of Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, expert contributors gather together to examine the extent and characteristics of forensic accounting, a field which has been practiced for many years, but is still not internationally regulated yet.

1. An Emperical Analysis on Students' Cheating Behavior and Personality Traits in the Context of Fraud Triangle Factors; Ali Altug Bicer 2. The Effects of Big Data in Forensic Accounting Practices and Education; Burcu Isguden Kilic  3. Forensic Accounting Education: An Evaluation of Perception of the Students and the Certified Public Accountants; Emin Zeytinoğlu and Zafer Anadolu  4. Financial Information Manipulation and its Effects on Investor Demands: The Case of Borsa Istanbul Bank Index; Esra Atabay and Engin Dinç  5. the Current Situation and Prospects of the Profession of Judicial Advisory in Turkey: A Research on Lawyers; Engin Dinç and Esra Atabay  6. Insurance Fraud: The Case in Turkey; Feride Hayirsever Baştürk  7. Rationality in Decision Making and Deterring Corporate Fraud; Gökçe Sinem Erbuğa  8. Explaining Heterogeneity in Risk Appetite and Tolerance: The Turkish Case; Joseph John Woods, Sharon Seychell, Ercan Ozen, Jonathan Spiteri, Robert Suban, and Simon Grima 9. An Analysis of Fraudulent Financial Reporting Using the Fraud Diamond Theory Perspective: An Empirical Study on the Manufacturing Sector Companies Listed on the Borsa Istanbul; Hakan Ozcelik  10. Detection of Accounting Frauds Using the Rule Based Expert Systems Within the Scope of Forensic Accounting; Mahmut Sami Öztürk and Hayrettin Usul  11. Financial Statement Manipulation: A Beneish Model Application; Murat Erdoğan and Eda Oruç Erdoğan  12. The Evaluation of the Criteria for the Selection and Change of the Independent Audit Firm Using the AHP Method; Özlem Kuvat and Burcu Işgüden Kiliç  13. The Forensic Accounting Profession and the Process of Its Development in the World; Öznur Arslan  14. Forensic Accounting and Fraud Audit in Turkey (2008-2018): An Academic Literature Review and Classification; Seval Kardeş Selimoğlu and Mehtap Altunel  15. The Views of Turkish Accounting Academics About the Skills of the Forensic Accountant; Süleyman Uyar and Kürşad Çavuşoğlu  16. Financial Crime: A Review of Literature; Yüksel Akay Ünvan  17. Social Auditing and Its Applicability to Maltese Co-Operatives; Peter J Baldacchino, Shana Bugeja and Simon Grima  18. Challenging the Adequacy of the Conventional 'Three Lines of Defence' Model: A Case Study on Maltese Credit Institutions; Glen Borg