Australia: Forensic Accounting

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Trust Accounts And The Temptation For Fraud

Trust accounts hold significant funds on behalf of clients across legal, real estate, and strata management sectors, yet weak controls and high transaction volumes create...

Australia Accounting

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Cathro & Partners

What Does A Forensic Accountant Do In Divorce Cases?

When high-net-worth separations involve businesses, trusts, or suspicions of hidden assets, forensic accountants become essential financial detectives. They trace concealed money, value complex holdings...

Australia Family

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Unified Lawyers

Fraud: The Enduring Threat Facing Australian Charities

Australian charities operate in a position of significant trust. They safeguard public funds, deliver essential services and support some of the most vulnerable members of the community.

Australia Criminal

CP

Cathro & Partners

How Experts Navigate The Complexities Of An Account Of Profits

In recent years, we have seen a notable rise in legal proceedings that require quantifying an account of profits in addition to damages, either by independent experts engaged by the plaintiff or defendant or joint or court-appointed experts.

Australia Litigation

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FTI Consulting

How Data Analytics Makes The Difference In Expert Matters

Australia Litigation

FC

FTI Consulting

How A 'Dirty' Expert Helps Clean Up Your Accounting Evidence

Australia Litigation

FC

FTI Consulting

Preventing corruption – Australia's ongoing endeavours

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Mastermind of Australia's biggest tax fraud receives lengthy prison sentence

Australia Criminal

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Sydney Criminal Lawyers

The usual methods of fraud risk management do not apply

Australia Criminal

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KordaMentha

Construction disputes - is it time for an added perspective?

Australia Real Estate

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KordaMentha

What is forensic accounting?

Australia Accounting

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BRI Ferrier

Directors owe a duty to exercise reasonable care and diligence to prevent the harm breaches of the law may involve

Australia Commercial

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BRI Ferrier

My company is in financial distress — How can Worrells help?

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

The pen is mightier than the sword – If you draft contracts right

Australia Commercial

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BRI Ferrier

1 July 2026 Changes: Australian Visas And Migration

Australia Immigration

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Interstaff Immigration Agency

ADR In Personal Injury Claims: A Comparison Between The Approach In England And Wales And Queensland, Australia (Podcast)

Australia Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

Corrs High Vis: Episode 61 - Payment Secured: Unpacking Victoria's Recent SOPA Reforms (Podcast)

Australia Real Estate

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Behind The Scenes Reveal - Virgin Australia (Video)

Australia Insolvency

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Omni Bridgeway

Goldfields DAMA Transition To WA DAMA Delayed To 31 December 2026

Australia Immigration

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Interstaff Immigration Agency

How to detect a lie - deception or fraud

A successful interview combines skills from a highly trained internal auditor with those of an experienced investigator.

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Taking a very non-traditional approach to quantifying an account of profits

Systems thinking is a way to understand dynamic relationships, to make better choices and avoid unintended consequences.

Australia Accounting

BF

BRI Ferrier

Financial foul play: Kicking goals: using emails and other data sources in forensic investigations

Forensic accountants used emails and accounting records to understand whether Manchester City had been misleading UEFA.

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Non-payment of superannuation entitlements - a window of opportunity

This amnesty for employers allows time for unpaid superannuation guarantee amounts to be brought up to date voluntarily.

Australia Employment

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Worrells

Corruption perception and the Australian decline

Australia Criminal

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KordaMentha

Employee Entitlements: Are you paying your employees the right amount?

Australia Employment

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KordaMentha

Dispute resolution agenda: accessing company information

Australia Commercial

CG

Cooper Grace Ward

Whistle-blowing on your client

Australia Accounting

W

Worrells

Part 2: Trusts and insolvency—is it different in bankruptcy?

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Can you access company books and records in liquidation?

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Discharging a mortgage when the mortgagee is deceased and the director imprisoned

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Personal insolvency statistics: Trends and causes

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Challenging creditor votes in bankrupt estates

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Statutory demands: Not to be ignored (or overlooked)

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Discharging a mortgage when the mortgagee is deceased and the director imprisoned

Section 588FDA of the Corporations Act provided that it was voidable as an unreasonable director-related transaction.

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Personal insolvency statistics: Trends and causes

AFSA has recently released annual statistics, trends and also data about personal insolvency causes for the 2016-17 year.

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Challenging creditor votes in bankrupt estates

This article examines challenges to the entitlement of creditors in bankrupt estates to vote at meetings of creditors.

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Statutory demands: Not to be ignored (or overlooked)

A company director who receives a statutory demand for payment from a creditor must act appropriately within 21 days.

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Part 1: Trusts and insolvency—is it different in bankruptcy?

Australia Insolvency

W

Worrells

Cybergeddon – Time to get serious about data before it's too late

We should all be concerned about hackers accessing our sensitive information, whether as individuals or business people.

Australia Accounting

K

KordaMentha

To catch a thief: Investigating fraud

In this article, Julia Patterson summarises how fraudsters are often caught by forensic accountants and investigators.

Australia Criminal

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KordaMentha

Big changes to accounting for leases from 2019

Operating leases will be presented differently, especially when considering historical performance and comparability.

Australia Accounting

K

KordaMentha

Steph Curry, the NBA, outliers and forensic accounting

An outlier, in the world of forensic accounting, is a value much larger or much smaller than other values in a data set.

Australia Accounting

K

KordaMentha

Chinese capital flight

Australia Government

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KordaMentha

Out of scope: excluded material in investigative forensic accounting reports

Australia Accounting

CU

Clayton Utz

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It could save you $7.2 billion - in damages for breach of contract

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

APES 215 Forensic Accounting Services (Revised December 2013)

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Spotting the mistake – how a simple spreadsheet error undermined a political movement

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Regulatory Round-up

Australia Accounting

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Moore Australia

Management of Procurement and Contract Fraud

Australia Accounting

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Deloitte

Increased Focus On Half-Yearly Accounts

Australia Accounting

CU

Clayton Utz

ASIC Financial Reporting Requirements

Australia Accounting

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HopgoodGanim

International Round Up

Australia Employment

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DLA Piper Australia

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