What kinds of injury cases need a forensic accountants involvement?
Forensic Accounting Special Interest Group (FASIG), 4th annual National Conference (September 2003) Co-authored and presented by Daniel Hanna (Partner, Dibbs Barker Gosling Lawyers) and Jonathan Dooley (Partner, Vincents Chartered Accountants), this presentation is intended to juxtapose the views of a ‘consumer’ of forensic accounting services (i.e. a lawyer) and a supplier of those services. It covers in detail why a lawyer would need – and how an accountant can help – in the following types of injury cases: • self-employed claimants • alleged partnership income losses, especially family organisations • businesses interrupted by injury in their start-up phase • situations where non-injury factors can have a large bearing on income e.g. agricultural income claims • claims for replacement labour • claims where lost input from a claimant does not reduce business earnings • cases where income records are suspect or where tax returns were not lodged prior to an injury • suspected non-discl
