FORENSIC ACCOUNTANCY

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Forensic accounting is the ability to deal with speciality areas and explain to a Court or Tribunal the accounting and technical issues of financial transactions. Frequently this involves the calculation of the quantum of any claim and may include key areas such as economic damage, family law, and economic crime (including fraud and business valuation). The process involves the analysis, interpretation and summary of complex financial and business related issues with the ability to communicate findings to the instructing parties and assist in legal proceedings including giving oral and written evidence in a Court or Tribunal.

Services include:
EXPERT DETERMINATION
FRAUD INVESTIGATION
ARBITRATION
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
COURT EXPERT EVIDENCE

KAY LINNELL

Kay specialises in forensic accounting, financial disputes and areas of litigation support including civil, family and criminal matters. She is a Chartered Arbitrator, an accredited Mediator, an experienced Expert Witness and Expert Determiner. She has experience in specialist commercial matters including share valuations, insurance claims, management consultancy, construction disputes, business interruption, insolvency and corporate recovery, fraud investigations, forensic reconstruction, tax professional negligence and tax investigations.

Kay has a wealth of experience as a Forensic accountant and in matters of compliance, she was responsible for Company Secretarial matters; Chief Executive of the Joint Insolvency Monitoring Unit Limited for the self-regulation of the insolvency profession; The Board of Inland Revenue's Chief Investigating Accountant and Head of Accountancy Profession and Accountancy Advisor in the Special Compliance Office at the Inland Revenue; Arbitrator and Expert Witness.

Kay is the co-author of  Tolley’s Tax Appeals (published 2001);  Tolley’s  Accountancy Litigation Support (1998-2004); Experts in the Civil Courts (OUP, 2006). She regularly lectures at events for accountants, barristers and judges, and expert witnesses.

Her qualifications and memberships include:

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1989, Member 1979)
Master of Business Administration degree (University of Sheffield)
Governor and Member of the Expert Witness Institute
Certified Fraud Examiner (2001)
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Accredited Mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (2001)
Senior Warden and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators
Member of the Fraud Advisory Panel
Member of the ICAEW London Police Liaison Panel; and Freeman of the City of London to do.