Fedkov Nikolay Nikolaevich, full member of the IAPD, an expert on accounting and economic issues of the St. Petersburg Institute of Independent Expertise and Appraisal, spoke about the activities of his organization, touched upon the need and benefits of an expert's opinion in various situations: in courts, notaries, investigation of criminal cases, etc.
The speaker informed on what topic most often orders are received in their organization. The most popular is the question of checking the Counterparty. For legal entities, verification of the Counterparty is the main action aimed at preventing financial and tax risks.
Another service performed by the organization is financial analysis and interpretation of reports. After submitting the statements, it still needs to be correctly deciphered in order to know the financial position of the company.
Business owners are often asked to check their accountant or manager though. For this purpose, a financial statement is taken and handed over to specialists who, at the first stage, can find out all dubious transactions carried out within the company. At the second stage, interviews are conducted with both the financial director of the company and with the accountant and managers. Indeed, sometimes a competent accountant can easily confuse any company owner, in which case independent qualified assistance is needed.
The current direction of the institute is to identify moments of internal corruption, when employees involved in the sale or purchase of goods collude with customers, counterparties in order to enrich themselves.
Continuing the topic of finding information in open sources, you can see which resorts employees have a vacation at, which cars they have, and whether this corresponds to their position in the company.
These and other activities are performed by the St. Petersburg Institute of Independent Expertise and Appraisal.
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