[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_tta_tour][vc_tta_section title="Business Valuations" tab_id="1608258330545-482e889c-0bb9"][prkwp_styled_title prk_in="Business Valuations" title_size="small"][vc_column_text]Forensic Accounting QLD is a leading provider of Business Valuation services.
Experts in business valuations, we are regularly engaged to value businesses, ranging from a family owned business to large corporate groups including the following:
- Purchase or sale of a business, as part of the due diligence process
- Assessment of the value of business Goodwill
- Admission or retirement of a partner in a partnership
- Business subject to a compulsory acquisition, as part of the resumption of land by a government or statutory authority
- Family Law matters
- Minority shareholder disputes
- Shareholder or partnership disputes
- Valuation of intellectual property
- Critiquing another expert’s valuation report
- Identification of the relevant issues
- Assessing and quantifying any losses arising from the disruption
- Quantifying any permanent loss on closure of the business, including the loss of goodwill
- Quantifying the costs of re-location of the business
- Business valuations
- Identifying and quantifying other loss and damage arising from the resumption, including quantifying losses arising before the land is resumed
- Assisting with a claim for compensation
- Providing assistance to the parties at mediation
- Providing expert evidence
- Losses arising from a breach of the Competition and Consumer Act (formerly the Trade Practices Act)
- Assessment of the loss and damage arising from a range of commercial disputes
- Professional negligence
- Future losses arising from a breach of contract or other form of agreement
- Business interruption losses
- Shareholder and partnership disputes
- Assessment of losses arising from an invalid appointment of Receiver and Manager
- Critique another experts report
- Building and construction disputes
- Preparation of Solvency Reports
- Review state building authority decisions to classify a person as an “Excluded Individual” due to an “Event of Insolvency”
- Analysis and reconstruction of financial records
- Asset tracing and recovery
- Misappropriation of funds
- Identity fraud
- Financial Statement Fraud
- Falsification of financial records to obtain a financial benefit
- Reconciliation of taxes & levies paid to the government of Liberia
- Purchasing fraud of a large international diversified construction company
- Theft of clients and contracts from an ASX listed company
- Financial statement and government grant fraud in the not for profit sector
- Investigation of numerous Ponzi schemes
- Misappropriation of monies invested with an accountant
- Review of the internal controls of a business to ascertain susceptibility to fraud
- Investigations into unregistered mortgage investment scheme
- Investigate the book keepers of various businesses
Preventative measures
At Forensic Accounting QLD we specialise in the provision of fraud risk assessments on a Business. We identify risk areas and recommend procedures to implement to minimise the identified risks, including:- Business Health Check
- Limited review of financial data,
- Identify possible anomalies,
- Identify the areas of risk,
- Develop a plan of internal controls to minimise risks, to protect the cash (lifeblood) of the business
- Investigating and unravelling complex business structures and transactions
- Investigate and identify assets not previously known to the parties, locally and overseas
- Court appointed Supervisor over various entities
- Due diligence investigations in respect to potential business acquisitions and sale
- Working with industry experts in securing and imaging digital data and analysis and investigation of data collected
- Financial Investigations into Body Corporate Management Services
- Business valuations
- Identification and quantification of the matrimonial pool
- Investigations into alleged misappropriation of assets by the parties
- Quantification of any Notional add back items to the matrimonial pool
- Investigation and quantification of fraud related matters.
- Investigate and unravelling of complex business structures
- Critique and analyse other experts reports
- Shadow Expert
- Assessments of earnings for child support or spousal maintenance applications
Collaborative Law:
The parties to a relationship have decided to call it a day. They want to sort out the split of the matrimonial pool on an amicable basis and not end up in Court, which would significantly reduce the matrimonial pool. Whilst, there is nothing new about this approach and the concept of parties sorting out the divorce outside the Courts, has been around for many years, it has more recently been affectionately referred to as a “Collaborative approach”. As experts in Family Law, Forensic Accounting QLD is increasingly being engaged directly by the parties to assist either one of or both parties in the following areas;- Providing an indicative valuation of the business, often on based on limited financial information, to allow the party or parties to make an informed decision,
- Assisting in quantifying the matrimonial pool,
- Providing professional support to the counsellors and other professionals engaged in collaborative process.
- Analysis and reconstruction of financial records
- Asset tracing and recovery
- Investigation and quantification of the sale or disposal of assets for an uncommercial value
- Misappropriation of funds
- Financial Statement Fraud
- Unravelling complex financial transactions
- Business Valuations
- Solvency reports
- Quantification of loss arising from an invalid appointment of an insolvency practitioner
- Appointment as an independent supervising accountant over entities subject to investigation by regulatory authorities.
- Budgets and cash flow forecasts
- Financial investigations and provision of expert reports
- Litigation support, including the provision of expert evidence
- Interviewing relevant parties
- Reviewing and critiquing other experts’ reports
- Acting as a shadow expert
- Assistance with settlement negotiations
- Reviewing and analysing documentation
- Assisting with the identification of missing documentation, and further documentation required in a matter
- Assisting Counsel formulate questions for cross examination of other experts
- Appointment as a jointly appointed single expert
- Provision of assistance at mediation conferences
- Joint expert conferences
- Court attendance for evidence in Chief and cross examination
- Federal Court of Australia
- Federal Circuit Court
- Federal Magistrates Court
- Supreme Court of Queensland
- Supreme Court of Tasmania
- Family Court
- Magistrates Court of Queensland
- Magistrates Court of Tasmania
- QCAT
- Identification of the heads of loss and damage that apply and assistance with claim preparation
- Provision of multiple loss calculation scenarios
- Identification and quantification of past and future economic loss
- Calculation of the interest on past economic loss
- Quantification of residual earning capacity
- Quantification of lost superannuation benefits on past and future lost wages
- Quantification of past gratuitous care and future care
- Quantification of past and future medical expenses and aids
- Quantification of past out of pocket expenses
- Quantification of any future medical treatment
- Calculation of the loss of dependency
- Identification of relevant industry benchmarks & statistical data
- Investigation into business trends and identification of alternative reasons for the losses incurred
- Preparation of expert reports
- Litigation support , including attending mediation and settlement conferences to assist the parties in the matter
- Critique other accountants reports
- Conduct financial investigations
- Provision of assistance for mediation or preparation for trial
- Provision of expert evidence
- Career Progression Scenario
A plaintiff’s career progression can be limited by the accident:
- Employees with a graded increases in salary linked to years of experience, e.g. nurses and police officers - Apprentices will become qualified trade persons, either as an employee or self-employed. - Professionals can look forward to significant and rapid salary package increases during their professional lifespan
- Salary Packaging Scenario
Salary packaging to significantly reduce the taxable position of the employee, e.g. the mining industry artificially distorting the actual financial position of the plaintiff as reported on the employee’s payslips and group certificates.
- Business Structures Scenario
The use by the Plaintiff of a tax effective structure, i.e. a company, trust or partnership may artificially distort the actual economic loss suffered by the plaintiff.
- Lost Opportunity Scenario
Whilst, not common, there are occasions where there has been a loss of opportunity arising from the accident, e.g. a builder building his own house and having to engage external tradespersons to complete the house after the accident.
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