fraud investigations

Bridgehaven Consulting works collaboratively with its clients and their outside legal counsel to conduct investigations into allegations involving financial statement fraud, embezzlement, and corruption (e.g., the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA). Bridgehaven Consulting’s Founder has held senior management positions in the SEC’s Enforcement Division and the PCAOB’s Division of Enforcement and Investigations and has conducted investigations involving some of the most high profile and complex accounting and auditing matters.

corporate and regulatory compliance

Bridgehaven Consulting has the experience in designing, reviewing, assessing, and testing internal accounting controls systems. Whether its material weaknesses in your SOX 404 controls, gaps in your anti-fraud controls, or complying with books, records and controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Bridgehaven Consulting’s Founder has helped many companies and has assisted corporate monitors in remediating internal control deficiencies and meeting fundamental compliance expectations of regulators. Searching for gaps in internal controls that provide the opportunity for perpetrators to embezzle funds, steal assets, commit fraud or pay bribes to obtain or retain business is our specialty. Bridgehaven Consulting can also help resolve these types of questions you may be confronting:

• Is your company working in or contemplating doing business in countries with a reputation as being at a high risk of corruption?

• Are you periodically assessing the risk of fraud in your organization and monitoring red flags or testing for fraud?

• Is your company reporting material weaknesses in internal controls year after year?

• Does your internal department need a health check?

• If you don’t have an internal audit department, do you want someone with the expertise to check for compliance with your policies, procedures and controls?

sec and white collar defense

Businesses and their officers, directors and employees are sometimes accused of committing financial crimes by the SEC, the DOJ and others. Bridgehaven Consulting assists its clients and their legal counsel with disputes in matters involving accounting, financial reporting, financial disclosure, financial damages, internal controls and maintaining books and records. Bridgehaven Consulting’s Founder is a former Associate Chief Accountant from the SEC’s Enforcement Division who brings valuable insight into the SEC’s enforcement process. Bridgehaven Consulting provides the expertise clients need and the support they deserve to resolve regulatory, civil and criminal matters.

auditor malpractice and audit firm compliance

Audit firms and auditors may find themselves under investigation by the SEC or the PCAOB, or may be alleged to have been negligent or reckless in the conduct of an audit. Bridgehaven Consulting’s Founder is a former auditor and has held senior positions in both the SEC’s Enforcement Division and the PCAOB’s Division of Enforcement and Investigations that can help navigate the complexities of the enforcement process. From case assessment to expert opinions, Bridgehaven Consulting can help resolve the matter to a satisfactory conclusion.

Bridgehaven Consulting can also provide your audit firm with a quality control health check. The SEC and PCAOB continue to bring cases against audit firms for gaps and weaknesses in their quality control systems and imposing monitors or independent consultants as part of settlements with audit firms. The PCAOB and the SEC will continue to hold audit firms and auditors to the highest quality standards. Bridgehaven Consulting’s Founder has served as an independent consultant, engaged to assess the quality control system of an audit firm as a consequence of a settlement with the SEC. Bridgehaven Consulting can help provide a second set of eyes to provide additional assurance that your quality control system will pass regulatory scrutiny.