The goal set is to identify the concept of forensic economic examination. To accomplish this goal, the authors solve such tasks as analysing said concept from the economic and legal perspectives, identifying various legal aspects of the concept, delimiting it from related categories, clarifying the content of rules of law on forensic economic examination, determining the place of these rules in the system of Russian law as well as identifying areas of further research devoted to legal regulation of forensic economic examination. As a result, legal and economic aspects of understanding forensic economic examination have been revealed. The legal understanding of forensic economic examination has been differentiated. It is justified that the set of rules of law on forensic economic examination includes procedural and substantive rules and that the system of regulation of forensic economic examination includes non-legal levels of regulation. Forensic economic examination has been delimitated from other studies in the field of economics and other forensic examinations. The paper has identified niches for further research.