Forensic Accounting

Whether it is employee embezzlement or financial statement fraud, our experienced team of Certified Fraud Examiners can help you support your claim. We are trained to look beyond the recorded transactions to expose the fraud and to legally verify the amounts involved. More importantly, we can help you design your internal accounting controls to minimize the risk of loss.

Our forensic accountants investigate, analyze, and summarize financial data. We assist you in legal proceedings by producing reports, by testifying in court as expert witnesses, and by preparing visual aids to support trial evidence.

Our forensic team also provides the following services:

Shareholders’ and Partnership Disputes

These assignments often involve a detailed analysis of numerous years' accounting records to quantify the issues in dispute. For example, a common issue that often arises is the compensation and benefits received by each of the disputing shareholders or partners.

Business Interruption/Other Types of Insurance Claims

Insurance policies differ significantly as to policy conditions. Accordingly, these assignments involve a detailed review of the policy to investigate coverage issues and the method of calculating the loss.

A forensic accountant is often asked to assist from either an insured or insurer's perspective in the settlement of the case.

Examples of these types of assignments include business interruptions, property losses, and employee dishonesty (fidelity) claims.

Marital Disputes

Marital disputes often involve tracing, locating, and evaluating assets. The assets to be evaluated and valued may be businesses, property, or other assets.

Business Economic Losses

Examples of assignments involving business economic losses include contract disputes, construction claims, expropriations, product liability claims, trademark and patent infringements, and losses stemming from breach of non-competition agreements.

Professional Negligence

Professional negligence investigations are often approached from two different but complimentary perspectives:

  • Technical - has a breach of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or Generally Accepted Auditing Standards or other standards of practice occurred
  • Loss Quantification