Before the records,
define the question.
A useful brief begins with the purpose, the people involved and the decision ahead.
Read the note
A considered approach to complexity
Forensic accounting
for complex questions.
Careful attention to the record. A clear explanation of what it shows. Specialist financial work, shaped around the question that matters.
Complexity asks for more than a calculation. It asks for someone who can follow the story in the numbers.
Records rarely arrive as a complete picture. Transactions need context. Assumptions need to be visible. The question itself needs to be understood.
Alder & Co. is a fictional specialist practice built around a simple idea: examine the detail carefully, then make the work understandable.
The approach is personal, methodical and clear about the limits of the available information.
“The explanation should be as carefully considered as the analysis.”
A practice principle for this fictional study, not a client testimonial.
Forensics & disputes
Follow the record.
Understand the context.
A focused starting point for financial questions involving transactions, business value and disputes.
Forensic accounting
A focused examination of transactions, records and context. The work begins with the question the evidence needs to answer.
Explore this practiceLitigation support
A clear account of the financial information behind a dispute, organized so the people involved can follow the work.
Explore this practiceBusiness valuation
A transaction, an ownership change and a dispute can ask different questions of the same business. Purpose and intended use shape the brief.
Explore this practiceStart with the purpose of the work and the question you need to explore.
Trustee & recovery
Bring order
to the information.
Careful review begins with an organized picture of the records, the parties and the gaps.
A defined brief.
A documented process.
Understand what information exists, what is missing and how the work will be used. Build a review around an agreed scope, with the assumptions and limitations kept visible.
Clear schedules and explanations make the financial record easier to follow.
How the practice works
A considered
conversation
about your question.
The first step is understanding the situation and the work you need to explore.
A closer reading
of the work.
Practical questions and considered perspectives, before the first conversation.
Explore the resourcesBefore the records,
One financial record.
Several perspectives.
A fictional scenario showing how scope and context can shape a review.
Explore the exampleA clearer conversation
starts with the question.
Tell us what you need to understand.
We can begin with the scope of the work.