Globe University and the Minnesota School of Business recently announced they have teamed up on a forensic accounting bachelor's degree, which is intended to give accounting graduates more potential for job growth and higher salaries.

"This is an engrossing career with change and challenges around nearly every corner,” said Melanie Torborg, network dean of accounting for Globe University.

Achieving a forensic accounting degree in business can give grads an opportunity to work on cases that include securities fraud, economic damages, bankruptcies, insolvencies and negligence, as well as be involved in court cases as a detective, accountant or an attorney, given the proper additional schooling.  

Many forensic accountants can be employed by banks, law firms, accounting firms, government agencies and large corporations, proving the importance of the profession.

According to Shore News Today, a news source covering New Jersey, forensics is expanding the minds of many students at Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville.

Teacher Darlyne de Haan told the news source that forensic accounting is one of the careers that students at the high school are looking at after studying forensic science as part of an elective course. Other careers that can stem from studying forensics are psychology for profiling and statistics.