Australia: Forensic Accounting

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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

A forensic accountant typically analyses accounting or financial data in a dispute or investigation context to investigate or quantify a financial issue.

Australia Litigation

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FTI Consulting

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

Consulting experts play large, but often invisible roles in assisting their clients.

Australia Litigation

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FTI Consulting

Preventing corruption – Australia's ongoing endeavours

Australia's ranking in the top 10 does not mean we are immune to global corruption.

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

How to detect a lie - deception or fraud

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

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

Australia Accounting

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BRI Ferrier

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

Australia Accounting

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KordaMentha

Blockchain Bites: Blockchain Bites: ASIC Corporate Plan backs tokenisation work; Tokenised Funds move closer to launch with Cayman Consultation; Project Acacia: Australia's leap into tokenised finance

Australia Technology

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Piper Alderman

Inside Employment Podcast Series - Investigations, Part 1 - What's The Fuss With Whistleblowing Investigations? (Video)

Australia Employment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Keeping Up With ESG In Australia – August 2025

Australia Environment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Michael Byrnes appeared on Breakfast with Tim Webster on 2SM on 23 July 2025 to discuss workplace relationships and that Coldplay concert

Australia Employment

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Swaab

APAC Monthly Private Wealth Legal Developments – July 2025

Worldwide Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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

Transparency International's (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) chart results show a steady decline for Australia.

Australia Criminal

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KordaMentha

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

Data analytical expertise could help as the responsibility of management to ensure compliance in business is growing.

Australia Employment

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KordaMentha

Dispute resolution agenda: accessing company information

Legal mechanisms are available to access company information where misconduct is suspected and the company is refusing access.

Australia Commercial

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Cooper Grace Ward

Whistle-blowing on your client

Australia Accounting

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Worrells

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

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Can you access company books and records in liquidation?

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

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

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Personal insolvency statistics: Trends and causes

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Challenging creditor votes in bankrupt estates

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Statutory demands: Not to be ignored (or overlooked)

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

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

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

The Safe Harbour has arrived for company directors

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Directors to be tracked with an Identification Number (DIN)

Australia Commercial

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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

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Worrells

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

The judge provided guidance on some key principles around a bankrupt trustee's right of indemnity out of trust assets.

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

The Safe Harbour has arrived for company directors

The laws seek to provide directors with an opportunity to explore restructuring opportunities for struggling companies.

Australia Insolvency

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Worrells

Directors to be tracked with an Identification Number (DIN)

A DIN could reduce illegal phoenix activity by tracking directors and their relationships to other companies and people.

Australia Commercial

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Worrells

The changing role of forensic accountants and expert witnesses

Australia Accounting

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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

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KordaMentha

Chinese capital flight

This is an example of how funds can be moved from China, despite controls set up by Beijing to prevent capital flight.

Australia Government

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KordaMentha

Out of scope: excluded material in investigative forensic accounting reports

Forensic accountants must take careful instructions and note very clearly any limitations on the material available.

Australia Accounting

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Clayton Utz

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

This claim considers the issue faced by forensic accountants - can hindsight be used in the calculation of damages?

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

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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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