Keith Williamson, a Managing Director who leads Alvarez & Marsal’s Disputes and Investigations team in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, contributed to a special report on the evolving role of forensic accountants. Today’s forensic accountants increasingly rely on smarter tools to assist them in tricky cases. The article, “Find the Truth,” was published by A Plus Magazine, the official magazine of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA).

Imagine having to dig out a single financial statement – with an alleged illegal transaction – hidden among thousands of folders in a cramped back office, all on a tight schedule. This was often how fraud investigations took place when Keith Williamson started out as a forensic accountant 20 years ago. “It was like finding a needle in a haystack – a ridiculously painstaking process,” says Williamson, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal, a member of the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs and also the Forensics Interest Group Management Committee. “By human error alone, you still might miss that document you were looking for.”

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This article was originally published in A Plus magazine in August 2019.