Assurance Services

Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services

Our Fraud Investigation & Dispute professionals can help you address the challenges and risks of doing business in today's environment. Dealing with complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance and business disputes can detract from efforts to achieve your company’s potential. Better management of fraud risk and compliance exposure is a critical business priority — no matter the industry sector. With our more than 1,500 fraud investigation and dispute professionals around the world, we assemble the right multidisciplinary and culturally aligned team to work with you and your legal advisors. And we work to give you the benefit of our broad sector experience, our deep subject matter knowledge and the latest insights from our work worldwide. It’s how Ernst & Young makes a difference.

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Our areas of focus include:

Fraud Investigations

Experienced in forensic accounting, financial and securities regulation, electronic discovery and risk management, our multidisciplinary professionals investigate situations where you suspect you have a problem. We understand your need for sensitive and time critical corporate investigations. Working with you or your outside counsel, we can help determine what happened, how much is at risk, who is involved, and what opportunities exist for recovery. Through a fraud risk assessment, we can help you identify your most significant risk areas so they can be better managed and mitigated.

Specifically, we can help you with:

Financial reporting and securities fraud investigations
Misappropriation & embezzlement
Regulatory investigations

Anti-fraud and fraud risk assessment

We provide management with an independent and objective assessment of their organizations existing anti-fraud program, gaps in the existing controls and suggest measures to mitigate the same. Our anti-fraud program can help you structure your fraud risk management by assessing each element of your anti-fraud model, identifying opportunities for improvement, providing a process for implementing the improvements and helping your company understand how to monitor the effectiveness of the program going forward.

Specifically, we can help you with:

Fraud risk assessment
Diagnostic approach to fraud risk assessment
Transaction Monitoring for financial services company
End-use monitoring for Private Equity
Anti-fraud policy and training

Dispute Advisory Services

Our dispute services professionals have wide-ranging experience helping corporations and their outside counsel manage and resolve complex disputes. Working with you or your counsel, we can develop calculations that may help you develop your litigation strategies.

Specifically, we can help you with:

Dispute Advisory
Arbitration and Litigation support
Quantification of economic loss

Forensic Technology & Discovery Services

Our forensic technology team proactively seeks out to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse by leveraging the knowledge from client’s data assets. We combine computer forensics experience, techniques and procedures with investigative skill to determine “what, where, when, why, who and how” relating to investigations and incidents involving electronic data and provide guidance on policies & procedures for record management as well as compliance requirements while controlling risks, time & costs.

Specifically, we can help you with:

Computer Forensics
Forensic Data Analysis
e-Disclosure

Find out more about our services in detail

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Corporate governance: role of independent directors

With the rapidly-changing regulatory environment, our report seeks to outline independent directors’ role and liabilities to better corporate governance in companies.

India Fraud survey 2012/ Fraud and corporate governance: Changing paradigm in India

This report, based on the India fraud survey 2012, explores the emerging fraud risks in corporate India and measures taken by various organizations to mitigate them.

Changing face of arbitration in India

This report by our Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services explores the current scenario of arbitration in India, its advantages and disadvantages, and the suggested way forward for long-term sustainability.

Technology frauds - a changing world

This report is based on a study conducted by Ernst & Young to measure awareness levels and counter measures adopted by businesses against technology fraud.