TAP creates clarity and understanding of what is often chaotic financial environments.
Determining which assets have changed over time, where they’ve gone, or how they’ve been manipulated, requires the application of professional’s skills that TAP has as a specialty. Other firms only generalize in this area. In the course of their investigations, FFI provides corporations attorneys and individual tow distinct forms of forensic analysis: financial examinations and data discovery.
Financial Examination
Most fraud investigations require an explicit and focused forensic review of accounting data. TAP’s experience and financial
Perspective goes beyond that offered by traditional accounting firms. They cut through the clutter, creating clarity and understanding in a chaotic environment.
TAP specialists analyze books and records to illuminate and defined specific activities. They scrutinize, flag, and report on data pointing to specific transactions. With this information, they give the client the opportunity to make appropriate decisions, take specific actions, and whether or not contracts were properly accounted for or if funds were embezzled.
Although no analytical tools completely ensure the absence of all fraudulent activities, TAP’s forensic inspection procedures most closely approach that goal. A forensic examination also unearths indicators as to what procedures a client should implement to protect against future abuses.
Computer Data Discovery
Today’s “paper trail” is predominately generated, maintained, and archived through computer data and storage systems. When money of important data goes missing, forensic data recovery techniques often uncover and extract information critical to a case.
Fraud & Forensic Investigations (FFI), trained computer examiners, provide thorough forensic computer examinations as an integrated part of an overall investigation. FFI’s are prepared to properly capture data by invitation or subpoena and can properly maintain the chain-of-evidence as necessary. TAP has the equipment, software, and expertise to secure, extract and interpret data findings, often in the face of password protection and encryption or physically damaged drives. Restoring this critical data can provide solid investigatory leads and specific evidence.
FFI’s also perform security scans, and software audits to isolate and remove internal and external threats. They will additionally provide network configuration advice designed to protect a firms most valuable data.