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Accounting & Finance

Forensic Accounting

Investigative accounting for fraud, disputes, and financial irregularities.

Overview

What we deliver

We investigate suspected fraud, quantify losses, and produce defensible findings for management, counsel, regulators, and courts.

We deliver forensic accounting services that combine investigative procedures, data analytics, and accounting expertise. Our team handles asset misappropriation reviews, financial statement fraud investigations, vendor and procurement schemes, payroll abuse, and revenue recognition concerns. We work with general counsel, audit committees, and external law firms under privilege when required. Engagements include evidence collection, document review, interviews, journal entry testing, and reconciliation of bank, ledger, and source records. We quantify damages, prepare loss schedules, and produce written findings that hold up under cross-examination. Our work supports civil litigation, criminal referrals, insurance claims, regulator inquiries from the IRS, HMRC, CRA, or ATO, and internal disciplinary actions. We also assist with whistleblower hotline triage, anti-fraud program design, and post-incident control remediation. All findings are documented to US GAAP, IFRS, UK FRS 102, and applicable jurisdictional standards.

Fit Check

Built for teams like yours

Who it's for

  • Audit committees responding to a tip
  • General counsel handling internal disputes
  • Insurers reviewing fidelity claims
  • Private equity firms in dispute with portfolio companies
  • Family offices investigating insider concerns

Pain points we solve

  • Unexplained variances in cash, inventory, or revenue
  • Suspected vendor kickbacks or duplicate invoices
  • Allegations of expense report or payroll abuse
  • Disputed earn-outs or working capital settlements
  • Regulator requests for transaction reconstructions
What's included

Capabilities

Everything we cover in this engagement.

  • Fraud risk assessment
  • Evidence collection and preservation
  • Journal entry and ledger analytics
  • Bank and source document reconciliation
  • Damages quantification
  • Interview support and memos
  • Expert witness reporting
  • Anti-fraud control recommendations
How we work

Our process

A clear, predictable path from kickoff to outcomes.

01

Intake

We meet with counsel and management to define scope, privilege, and confidentiality requirements.

02

Evidence

We collect and preserve documents, transactions, and system data with a documented chain of custody.

03

Analysis

We run journal entry tests, vendor analytics, and reconciliations to identify patterns and exceptions.

04

Findings

We quantify losses, draft a written report, and present results to the audit committee or counsel.

05

Remediation

We recommend control improvements and support recovery, insurance, or regulator filings.

What you get

Deliverables & outcomes

What you get

  • Investigation work plan
  • Evidence log and chain of custody
  • Transaction analytics workbook
  • Loss quantification schedule
  • Written findings report
  • Control remediation roadmap

Outcomes you can expect

  • Clear understanding of what happened and the financial impact
  • Defensible record for litigation or regulator response
  • Recovery support through insurance or civil action
  • Stronger controls to prevent recurrence
  • Faster resolution of internal disputes
Timeline

4 to 16 weeks depending on scope and data volume

Engagement

Monthly retainer, Project, Sprint

Tools we use

ACL Analytics, IDEA, Relativity, Microsoft Excel, Power BI

KPIs we track

Issues identified, loss amount quantified, time to findings, recovery rate, control gaps closed

Client stories

What clients say

"

My books were 90 days behind and I was avoiding my accountant. They cleaned up nine months of mis-categorized Shopify and Stripe entries, set up proper rules in QuickBooks, and now my close lands on day four of every month. First time in three years I opened a P&L without wincing. Cash forecasting actually makes sense now.

D.R.
"

We were drowning in tier-one tickets about password resets and appointment changes. They built a deflection layer on top of our help desk and kept their agents in the loop for anything sensitive. Volume to humans dropped 58 percent in two months and our patient NPS held steady. The hybrid handoff is the part most vendors get wrong. They did not.

P.M.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most.

Can you work under attorney-client privilege?
Yes. We routinely accept engagements through outside counsel so our work product is covered by privilege and work product doctrine.
How quickly can you start?
We can mobilize within a few business days for urgent matters once scope and conflict checks are cleared.
Do you testify as an expert witness?
Yes. Our senior practitioners prepare expert reports and provide deposition and trial testimony when needed.
Will the investigation disrupt operations?
We design procedures to minimize disruption, using read-only data access and off-hours interviews where possible.
Do you handle international matters?
Yes. We support investigations involving US, UK, Canadian, and Australian entities and coordinate with local counsel on jurisdictional issues.

Need a discreet forensic review?

We investigate quickly, document thoroughly, and produce findings that stand up to scrutiny.