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5. Determine tax treatment of specific transactions

6. Assist with duty or import tax matters

Economic Damages:

1. Perform lost profits analysis

2. Determine lost value of a business

3. Verify extra costs associated with a specific business situation

4. Analyze lost cash flows

5. Review mitigation of damages of economic damages

6. Analyze or aid in calculating restitution

Punitive damages:

1. Perform a study based on benchmarks

2. Assist in calculation

Insurance Claims:

1. Analyze or calculate business interruption

2. Determine lost wages

Financial and Source Documents Fraud:

1. Identify false reporting, particularly of income or assets

2. Determine whether financial books and records have been manipulated

3. Identify and analyze forgery of financial documents, such as invoices

4. Analyze electronic tampering of financial books and records

5. Trace and review related party transactions

6. Determine and review manual journal entries

7. Perform data-mining techniques

8. Carry out accounts receivable aging analysis, including trend analysis

9. Examine suspicious vendor relationships or activities

10. Examine suspicious financial performance by a unit, subsidiary, or joint venture

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