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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic Accounting service line is specialized in the analysis and the interpretation of business transactions. Our findings are documented, completely meeting all requirements for legal prosecution.
Only a full audit of all suspicious acts guarantees an exact display of the issue.
But what is the difference between our services and the services of a classic certified public accountant, and where are the advantages compared to investigations conducted by state law enforcement authorities?
- Years of experience in the field of business investigation give us the ability to identify criminal patterns in short time
- We conduct our audits in two directions, bottom-up and bottom-down. This allows us to gain the big picture which enables us to understand important details.
- To get even more out of the big picture we add detailed background investigations on all involved parties. This background information is necessary to detect criminal networks and suspicious relationships between target persons.
- By conducting employee interviews with special interrogation techniques we gain valuable inside information.
- We always assist our customers personally in information gathering. This also rules out any possibility of manipulation in the delivered information.
- Contrary to any investigation conducted by state authorities our customers are always informed about the next steps of the project. It is always the decision of our customer if next steps should be taken. In the end it is the customer who has to decide what to do with the findings of our audit.
- We can start our project work immediately and globally without time-consuming conflict checks.
The less the time between the criminal act and the start of the investigation the more evidence can be found and documented. This is not only important for solid court prosecution but also to avoid giving the suspect time to hide illegally gained assets and to destroy important evidence. Immediate action makes it much easier to recover lost assets to the company.
Our audit team develops individual investigation strategies for the customer by always considering the following questions:
- What is the best crisis management?
- Which actions have do be taken immediately to minimize losses?
- Is it in the interest of the customer to report an offence to the police?
- Should civil law claims be asserted?
- Is it necessary to ask for public prosecution?
- Is our work affecting the daily business of the customer and can these affects be minimized?
- Does the investigation lead to personnel changes?
In every case of intelligence and prevention the documentation is of utmost importance. Inappropriately documented facts are not reliable before court and will also complicate company internal investigations. Depending on these circumstances our audit report always serves the customer's needs. We clearly point out and document the differences between suspicions and facts.
Combining the disciplines of IT-Forensic and Forensic Accounting allows us analyse and to edit mass data in short time for our customers.
We closely work together with professional law and public accounting firms.
Our customers are:
- Banks
- Insurances
- Industry and
- Public authorities
