“They spent three weeks on our vendor payment file and found two circular routes we had missed in the first internal check. The findings letter was dense but usable in the board pack without rewriting.”Mei Ling Cheung — Finance director, Central trading group · Forensic transaction review
Client stories
Testimonials and extended accounts from boards and counsel who instructed Appnet Bridge for forensic transaction review in Hong Kong.
“The kickoff felt slower than I wanted — they insisted on a document hold before opening the ledger. Looking back, that discipline kept the review from being challenged later.”Jonathan Hale — External counsel · Dispute support
“After our ERP cutover, suspense accounts were growing every month. The integrity assessment named which posting paths were broken and gave us a clear stop/go on whether to escalate to a full forensic review.”Priya Nair — Group controller · Ledger integrity assessment
“Not the cheapest option on our shortlist. What we paid for was partners who had actually read the bank PDFs before the briefing, not a junior reading slides.”David Okonkwo — Audit committee member · Forensic transaction review
Extended account: Intercompany transfers under shareholder dispute
A privately held trading group in Central faced a shareholder allegation that dividends had been masked as “management fees” paid to a related service company. Instructing solicitors asked Appnet Bridge to reconstruct twelve months of intercompany transfers and fee invoices.
We held the general ledger exports, bank statements for three accounts, and the related-party invoices. Tracing showed that eleven of fourteen large fee payments matched contemporaneous board minutes and contracts. Three payments lacked contracts and were posted on weekends by a user ID belonging to a departed controller.
The findings letter separated supported fees from unsupported ones, with exhibit indexes counsel later used in mediation. The engagement did not opine on whether unsupported payments were unlawful — that remained a legal question — but it gave both sides a shared schedule of amounts and dates.
Extended account: Cut-off after a warehouse fire claim
An importer sought comfort that inventory write-offs after a warehouse incident were reflected consistently in the books before insurers asked sharper questions. Our ledger integrity assessment sampled cut-off around the incident date and flagged delayed recognition of scrap proceeds. Management corrected the postings before the next committee meeting; no full forensic review was required.