IRS special agent Q&A

[racrguy]

Got it.

Nice!

[KBScobravert]

Supposedly, this one gets a badge and a gun. Whatever.

A tax agent with a gun? Scary shit goes down behind a desk of white collar crime.

In all seriousness though. My questions are legit. He will answer "uh, cause our book of rules say so" When he does, throw something fucking heavy at him. They tried popping me with those last year and were looking to set me back $250 big ones.

Funny how you can spend 330 days in a foreign country and deduct $94,500 but if you land in the US at 2359hrs on the 329th day you can't claim the deduction. Sorry, you loose, game over try again next year.

[YALE]

Debits on the left, credits on the right ... hmmm ...

Slow down chief. You've got to ease into it.

[Chas_svo]

"Special"...I think I would stop right there.

The biggest thing I remember from accounting is the day our teaching walked thru how to hide embezzling funds. I think she thought we were half asleep, and needed something to wake us up.

Same school, btw.

Also FTIRS, if that hasn't been written enough above.

[Forever_frost]

Here's one "Why is it if you enter my home and seize my property it's legal but if my neighbor does it, he's a criminal?"

[YALE]

"Special"...I think I would stop right there.

The biggest thing I remember from accounting is the day our teaching walked thru how to hide embezzling funds. I think she thought we were half asleep, and needed something to wake us up.

Same school, btw.

Also FTIRS, if that hasn't been written enough above.

Tarleton?

[YALE]

Full report:
It turns out this was just a recruitment visit. This lady (it was a lady) does forensic accounting to run down drug dealers and prostitution rings. What an evil bitch.

[Nash B.]

It's for the children!

[racrguy]

Full report:
It turns out this was just a recruitment visit. This lady (it was a lady) does forensic accounting to run down drug dealers and prostitution rings. What an evil bitch.

Forensic accounting? Is that like trying to determine if a ledger was done on 8 weight paper or 10?

[mstng86]

Forensic accounting? Uhhhh she means audit, right?

Seriously, don't make it sound like you're a "detective". You're a god damn auditor. Plain and simple. The worst that could happen is you getting a paper cut or tennis elbow.

[Slowhand]

Forensic accounting? Uhhhh she means audit, right?

Seriously, don't make it sound like you're a "detective". You're a god damn auditor. Plain and simple. The worst that could happen is you getting a paper cut or tennis elbow.

Forensic ≠ auditing. Some of the principles are the same, but they're not the same thing.

[Slowhand]

Forensic accounting? Is that like trying to determine if a ledger was done on 8 weight paper or 10?

Running through high $$ white-collar criminals' entire personal financial life, figuring out how they embezzled funds and where they put them.

Wouldn't do it for the IRS, but I'd spend some time doing it for a Big 4 firm. Even get to run across some nudie pics of their wives when you're scanning through emails.

[racrguy]

Running through high $$ white-collar criminals' entire personal financial life, figuring out how they embezzled funds and where they put them.

Wouldn't do it for the IRS, but I'd spend some time doing it for a Big 4 firm. Even get to run across some nudie pics of their wives when you're scanning through emails.

I bet one of the firms pays way better, and you don't work for the government to boot!

[Slowhand]

I bet one of the firms pays way better, and you don't work for the government to boot!

Shit buckets better.

[barronj]

I met a guy once who was a forensic accountant. Said that most of the work he did was for divorce attorneys trying to figure out where the money/assets were hidden in contentious/nasty divorce cases.