Forensic Services

We provide a wide range of forensic audit and investigative related services, including:

Forensic Audits and Investigations

We assist our clients with the investigation of allegations of financial misconduct and related irregularities, including fraud, corruption, theft, maladministration, etc. Our expertise in respect of the criminal justice system, civil litigation, and disciplinary matters enable our clients to effectively and efficiently resolve incidents of actual and potential financial misconduct and related irregularities.

Through our proven methodologies and investigative techniques, we ensure that matters are investigated, and evidence collated within the legislative and regulatory frameworks, ensuring the achievement of desired results, be it criminal prosecution, civil recovery, and/or disciplinary dispute resolution.

Fraud and Corruption Prevention Strategies

The primary of objective of anti-fraud and corruption strategies is to develop and reinforce or instil a culture of ethical behaviour amongst employees and other role players.

The main principles of a Fraud and Corruption Prevention Strategy include creating a culture which is intolerant to fraud, corruption, and related irregularities, deterrence, prevention, detection, investigation, and resolution.

Fraud and Corruption Risk Assessments

The prevalence of fraud, corruption, and related irregularities, has been ascribed to the three elements that needs to be present for incidents of this nature to occur, being pressures (need), opportunity, and rationalisation.

By understanding these elements, and the ways in which it manifests, we can identify areas of actual and potential risk of fraud, corruption and related irregularities.

Our risk assessment methodology is focused on the identification of the cause of related risk instead of the symptoms of its existence, thereby ensuring that pro-active measures can be implemented to effectively manage and mitigate these risks.

Forensic Data Analytics

We utilise specialised application software to conduct data-mining and data analysis for detecting and preventing fraud, corruption, and related irregularities.

Organisations possess large volumes of presumably unrelated data sets, which most often exist as a substantially untapped source of evidence and indicators of actual and/or possible irregularities. By data-mining these sets of data (e.g. payroll information, financial payment information, vendor information) separately and in conductions with publicly available sources of information (e.g. CIPC directorship information) we are able to identify trends, exceptions, anomalies through relationships that exists in such data sets.

Consistently applied, as part of ensuring adequate control environments, and prevention strategies, this is an important pro-active technique with several quick wins for reducing or limiting the impact of fraud, corruption, and related irregularities, within an organisation.

Pro-active Profiling Services

Organisations are continuously exposed to risks associated with fraud, corruption, and dishonesty, more specifically when it involves procurement activities, the engaging of external service providers, possible business relationships, or even the appointment of staff. Organisations, therefore, need to pro-actively ensure that it makes decisions that are informed by verified information.

Having the required skills and experience, and on-line access to key relevant sources of information, we can provide a pro-active assurance assessment service, by pro-actively verifying and assessing key information, on behalf of an organisation, which allows organisations to make informed decisions, thereby enabling organisations to act pro-actively and prevent and/or mitigate the risks associated with fraud, corruption, and dishonesty.

For purposes of the performance of due diligence audits and verification audits/assessments, for clients, we make use of several data base search engines, which are integrated into a host of government and institutional databases, whereby individuals, business entities, and assets are profiled, and information for purposes of verifications, assessments, and investigations are available.

Where appropriate, as part of the pro-active assessment, specifically for SCM related activities, we would conduct interviews with a representative of a potential supplier, business partner, etc., to verify the legitimacy of information provided during the engagement processes, and verify the nature, extent, and client satisfaction of completed projects of a similar nature, as performed by the prospective service provider.

The operational areas where our pro-active profiling related services are normally engaged for includes tender reviews, vendor assessments, due diligence audits, pre-employment assurance services, etc.