In today’s economic climate, corporate governance, accountability and transparency are critical to ensuring stakeholder confidence. Getting to the bottom of inappropriate corporate activity requires sound commercial experience, coupled with a detailed knowledge of accounting, law enforcement and legal processes. Ferrier Hodgson Forensics complements and enhances corporate and legal resources by expanding the evidence gathering and analytical abilities necessary to unravel complex financial and accounting transactions.
The scope of such assignments often requires the use of a broad range of skills, and so each assignment is resourced with an appropriate mix of investigation, Forensic accounting and Forensic IT specialists.
Assignments involve a range of specialist activities, including:
- The investigation of corporate accounting misstatements
- Data mining and analytics to uncover transaction patterns which reveal fraudulent activity
- Reconstruction and analysis of accounting records and other business information such as e-mails and other electronic documents
- Financial investigations on behalf of regulators, including the provision of expert reports and testimony
- Claims for business costs, termination of supplier or distribution contracts
- Employee fraud investigations
- Investigations into the inappropriate use of intellectual property
- Procurement reviews
- Money laundering investigations
- Asset and funds tracing
- Financial and fraud investigations in the context of insolvency appointments, including employee and corporate fraud, asset tracing and the investigation of suspicious transactions
For examples of recent investigations we have undertaken please refer to our key contacts profiles below.