Investigative accounting is a special type of audit in an enterprise primarily aimed at detecting financial irregularities in business entities and identifying the technology of unauthorized removal of the company's most valuable or strategic assets. Investigative auditing is directed to detecting irregularities and indicating the amount of losses for the business and the location of the relocation and the possibility of recovering it.
The offer of an investigative audit is addressed to various groups of persons or entities that may have a legal or economic interest, including, but not limited to:
- Creditors seeking property to satisfy claims
- Syndicates or forensic supervisors to assess the financial condition of a potential bankrupt
- partners in capital and personal companies interested in evaluating the management of these companies or dividing or liquidating companies
- spouses performing the property division in connection with a divorce
- heirs who inherited an enterprise or shares in an enterprise
Assistant in some processes can help prevent serious financial losses. Detecting irregularities at an early stage allows for effective legal remedies to recover lost assets.