Forensic Focus - previous editions

Our quarterly newsletter ‘Forensic Focus’ brings you the latest forensic accounting issues, trends and expert insights for financial and legal professionals.

Forensic Focus - July 2007

This edition of our newsletter ‘Forensic Focus’ brings you the latest forensic accounting issues, trends and expert insights for financial and legal professionals.

Contents:

• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Survey - examines the key issues emerging from the first UK financial services industry Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Survey, launched on 3 July 2007.
• Expert Evidence - a look at the traditional relationship between lawyers and experts.
• Electronic Disclosure - guidelines for companies surrounding electronic disclosure.
• How to Manage Your Rights in a Converged World - with the explosion of digital media and innovations in technology, some of the dangers posed by content piracy and breaches of customer privacy and how these issues could be more effectively managed.
• Fraud Spotlight - crackdown on an anti-money laundering racket

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Forensic Focus - April 2007

This edition of our newsletter ‘Forensic Focus’ brings you the latest forensic accounting issues, trends and expert insights for financial and legal professionals.

Contents:

• Corporate Transactions: Locking the Box - locked boxes are preferred by many over more traditional completion accounts mechanisms. We look at the pros and cons and consider some of the issues for both sides to a transaction.
• Fraud Spotlight - description of a licensing fraud which was uncovered at an optical disc manufacturer.
• Pensions - highlighting the changing world of pensions litigation and some of the ways in which we are working with other parts of PwC to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.
• Contract Compliance - examining some of the pitfalls of business partnering or outsourcing and how value could be managed more effectively.
• Electronic Records - how the effective use of technology requires the application of traditional investigative skills.

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Forensic Focus - January 2007

This edition of our newsletter ‘Forensic Focus’ brings you the latest forensic accounting issues, trends and expert insights for financial and legal professionals.

Contents:

• The Fraud Act 2006 - how the legislation has responded to the ever changing face of economic crime.
• Fraud Spotlight - outlines a recent and real example of a fraudulent scheme at a client insurer.
• Fraud Risks in the Emerging Markets - the steps which are being taken to manage fraud risk.
• Your Country Needs Us - some of the work we have been undertaking recently in the Public Sector and why there appears to be an increasing appetite for forensic advice within central and local government.
• Managing the Risks of Software - new standards and what vendors and users need to be doing to ensure compliance.

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Forensic Focus - October 2006

This edition of our newsletter ‘Forensic Focus’ brings you the latest forensic accounting issues, trends and expert insights for financial and legal professionals.

Contents:

• Whistleblowing - current thinking on the role of whistle blowing in businesses.
• International Arbitration: Corporate Attitudes and Practices 2006 - describes the leading edge research commissioned in relation to International Arbitrations.
• Fraud Spotlight - how customer overpayments can create regulatory problems.
• Commercial Disputes - how we combine our industry and forensic experience to help clients in the area of commercial disputes.
• A New Approach to E-Discovery - an update of developments in this fast moving area.

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