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KordaMentha Forensic practitioners have considerable experience in providing forensic solutions to clients in Australia and Asia Pacific. The KordaMentha Forensic team is comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds in law enforcement and corporate regulation, legal, accounting, consulting, information technology and academia.
Our national team will provide you with the experience, speed and results your business demands.
Investigation Services
| Whether you are facing challenges in the boardroom or at the CXO level, KordaMentha Forensic identifies the relevant issues to help you make an informed decision. Our experience enables us to deliver the following investigation services to you:
Fraud and Accounting Manipulation Investigations - Determining the methods of a fraud or accounting manipulation and quantifying its effect
- Securing and analysing key documents and interviewing key individuals
- Reconstructing lost or destroyed financial records
- Asset tracing
Corruption Investigations - Compliance reviews and investigations under relevant corruption legislation including the Criminal Code (Bribery of Foreign Public Officials) Act (AUS) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (US)
Regulatory Investigations - Investigations of market misconduct and regulatory breaches
- Assisting and advising clients in response to investigations undertaken by regulatory bodies including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Department of Justice (US) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (US)
Corporate & Internal Investigations - Investigations into performance under contracts, theft of Intellectual Property and in-depth financial statement analysis
- Investigations of breaches of internal codes of conduct and policies
- Best practice review of internal investigations and existing investigation policies and procedures
Investigations Training - Undertaking training in best practice investigation management, interviewing techniques and evidence collection
| Fraud Risk Management Services
| With the collapse of a number of corporate entities in recent years, management must ensure they have effective mechanisms in place to prevent, detect, and respond to incidents of fraud and misconduct. The experience of the KordaMentha Forensic team enables us to deliver the following fraud risk management services to you:
Development and Review of Fraud Risk Policies - Development of fraud risk framework and strategy documents
- Development of anti-fraud programs and controls for US entities as set out in the US Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) framework
- Review and gap analysis of existing fraud risk policies against the Australian Standard on Fraud and Corruption Control and other relevant fraud control guidelines
Fraud Risk Assessment - Undertaking a fraud risk assessment that complies with the Australian Standard on Risk Management or the COSO framework for US entities
Fraud, Corruption and Ethics Awareness Training - Development and facilitation of training programs
- Development of train-the-trainer materials
- Review and enhancement of existing fraud, corruption and ethics awareness training programs
Whistleblower Consulting Services - Review and gap analysis of existing whistleblower policies and programs against global best practice and legislative provisions
- Development of new whistleblower policies and procedures or enhancement of existing mechanisms
- Training of internal whistleblower staff including Whistleblower Protection Officers and Whistleblower Investigation Officers
Corporate and Business Intelligence - Obtaining information from public sources globally for integrity due diligence or risk management purposes
- Asset tracing globally
- Pre-employment screening and couterparty profiling
| Anti-Money Laundering Services
| In recent years there has been a significant increase in legislative requirements regarding anti-money laundering (AML). The experience of the KordaMentha Forensic team enables us to deliver the following AML consulting services to you: - Undertaking a risk assessment that complies with relevant best practice requirements
- Design, development and implementation of compliance and detection programs
- Training of internal AML compliance specialists and other key personnel.
| Forensic Technology Services
| We have a team of professionals who can apply the power of technology during an investigation or to assist your business operations. The experience of the KordaMentha Forensic team enables us to deliver the following forensic technology services to you: - High volume data accumulation
- Collection, organisation and retention of evidentiary data including lost, hidden, or deleted information
- E-mail and other electronic data recovery and preservation
| Data Analytics services
| Our team of Data Analytics specialist's core capability is to transform orgainisation's raw data into valued information for informed decision making. The team has over 15 years experience in the application of data analytics to resolve complex business process and risk issues. The range of Data Analytics services include: - Suspicious Activity Analysis: duplicate payments; unauthorised transactions; invalid data; relationship analysis; manual journal entry analysis.
- Data Exploration: demographic analysis; decision support; incident quantification (in support of litigation cases).
- Data Assurance: business process and compliance analysis; data health check; data reconstruction.
- Process Optimisation: revenue leakage analysis and cost reduction analysis.
- Conducting web-based fraud and anti-corruption surveys.
| Dispute Analysis Services
| Whatever the accounting, business or financial issue involved in a commercial litigation or dispute, it is beneficial to employ an experienced expert accountant. The KordaMentha Forensics team is highly experienced in litigation and dispute resolution processes and can act as: - Independent accountancy expert witness
- Consulting accountancy expert
- Experts pursuant to dispute resolution clauses
- Court-appointed referee
The experience of the KordaMentha Forensics team enables us to deliver the following range of Dispute Analysis services: - Preliminary advice in relation to quantification and methodology issues
- Assistance in the identification of accounting and financial records pursuant to discovery orders
- Reconstruction and analysis of accounting records and other financial information
- Quantification of economic loss and damages
- Provision of advice and expert witness reports
- Critique of an opposing expert's report
- Assistance in settlement negotiations
KordaMentha Forensics team has experience in the following types of commercial disputes: - Breach of contract disputes
- Misrepresentation disputes
- Business interruption insurance claims
- Professional negligence claims
- Construction claims
- Post-acquisition disputes
- Pricing disputes
- Intellectual Property disputes
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