Complex & Technical Accounting Investigations

RKA Worldwide helps companies protect their brand and reputation by proactively advising on their exposure and susceptibility to fraud, corruption, and other financial crime issues.  Drawing on our global network of RKA Luminaries we can quickly and efficiently gain an understanding of your exposure and use our extensive accounting, auditing, and investigative skills to identify cases of fraud, corruption, and theft. This allows us to give you useful and actionable advice across your organization as well as giving expert witness testimony in court.

RKA Worldwide’s leaders and staff have decades of experience working with the Big Four Global Accounting Firms, Marquee Global Consulting Firms, Fortune 100, multi-national companies based across the globe, and foreign governments. Whether your needs are personal injury / insurance claims, a detailed analysis of financial transactions, records examinations and reconstruction, a search for unreported income and assets, or a royalty audits, we have successfully conducted forensic audits and financial crime investigations in:

North America | Latin America | Middle East, Africa & Europe |

Forensic Accounting

  • Leading forensic audit engagements.
  • Forensic accounting review of books and records to determine scope of violations and reconstruct financial records to actual events
  • Responding to SEC, GAO, congressional or other regulatory inquiries
  • DOJ and other governmental inquiries and investigations
  • Accounting restatements
  • Expert witness testimony
  • Accounting errors and irregularities
  • Automated continuous audits for red flags
  • Whistleblower allegations
  • Regulatory investigations
  • Compliance and reportin
  • Litigation and dispute resolution
  • Financial and accounting analysis
  • Financial statement fraud
  • Review of accounting rules, standards, and pronouncements
  • Earnings management
  • Complex transaction analysis
  • Quantification of fraud damages
  • Report writing and analysis
  • Side letters and unauthorized commitments

Notable Past Engagements

Paul Lucas

Global Practice Leader  Complex & Technical Accounting Investigations

CA, CFE, CIA, CAMS, PMP

Washington, DC, United States

Prof. Dr. Sri Ramamoorti

Ph.D., ACA, CPA, CITP, CFF, CGMA, CIA, CFSA, CGAP, CRMA, CFE, CGFM, CRP, CVA, MAFF, FCPA

Dayton, Ohio, United States

Prof. Dr. Vic Hartman

JD, CPA, Esq.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Prof. Dr. Erik Burgos

JD, CPA, ESQ.

Northern Virginia, United States

Carolina Sanchez

CPA (Colombia only)

Bogota, Colombia

Edward Herbst

CPA, CFE, CFF

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Raffael Salles

CFE

Curitiba, Brazil

Ricardo Meneguelo

MBA, Brazil GAAP and IFRS

Curitiba, Brazil

Ed Farag

CPA, CA, ESAA

Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Norman S. Roth

CPA, CFE, CFF

New York City, New York, United States

Sam Ponniah

CPA, CIA, CFE

Houston, Texas, United States

While RKA Worldwide Group LLC, including RKA Worldwide USA; RKA Worldwide Brazil; RKA Wordwide Middle East; and RKA Worldwide Protection & Security; and other companies in formation may employ, associate and contract with attorneys and CPAs, we are not public accounting firms or law firms, are not registered as such, and do not give audit or legal advice.