Forensic accounting involves a wide range of specialist activities from providing advice on the quantification of economic loss or damages to the reconstruction of accounting records.
Our accounting experience and knowledge allows us to provide detailed, reliable and well-documented expert reports to our clients and, if necessary, expert testimony before a court. All of our senior forensic accountants is recognised in their own right, and have acted for defendants and plaintiffs in many of the region’s most complex disputes.
Knowledge of the litigation process, as well as technical issues, is paramount, and is maintained at all times through continuing training and a commitment to improving our skills.
Our forensic accounting assignments have involved a variety of activities, including:
- Pre-litigation advice in relation to quantification and methodology issues
- Assistance in identifying accounting evidence pursuant to discovery orders
- Reconstruction and analysis of accounting records and other business information
- Quantification of economic loss and damages in the context of contractual and other disputes
- Solvency reports
- Identification and collation of accounting and other evidence for negligence actions
- Advice or expert witness reports in international arbitrations
- Expert accounting evidence or reviews in regulatory and pricing disputes in relation to competition issues such as trade practices disputes and price fixing
- Quantification of royalties and franchise fees
- Insurance-related litigation and claims
Reputation, experience and knowledge are key to the process of selecting an expert. For recent examples of the ways in which we have applied our expertise and for details of the qualifications, experience and skills of all our experts, please look at the profiles of our key contacts below.