Data Analytics
In an increasingly digital world, the data you generate is your silent partner and has the ability to speak and inform you. We draw on extensive knowledge and experience to translate this unique language to ensure you benefit from insights it can reveal, and deliver solutionsto guide you forward.
MNP’s Data Analytics services works closely with you to gain a strong understanding of your business, allowing us to ask impactful questions and define your business drivers.
When coupled with our other investigative, accounting, advisory and digital forensic expertise, we make sure your data works for you, analysing your past and charting your future goals.
Solutions for your success
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Let the evidence tell the story: our Digital Investigations team will preserve, analyze and report on electronic data, presenting evidence to standards required for criminal or civil proceedings.
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We conduct fact finding investigations around the behaviour of employees, managers and third parties to help you make informed and difficult decisions about fraud and misconduct in the workplace.
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Address allegations or incidents of workplace misconduct discretely and effectively as our team helps resolve immediate challenges and develop effective response plans to prevent future incidents.
Insights
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June 03, 2022
Masking financial statements: financial fraud and financial statements – part 1
Here is an article on Financial Fraud and Financial Statements published in Le Monde juridique, written by Corey Bloom, partner and Eastern Canada Leader (Quebec, NCR and Atlantic Canada), Forensics, Investigations and Disputes for MNP and Simon Gaudreau, MNP Senior Consultant, Investigative and Forensics Services and Dispute Resolution.
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Confidence
April 27, 2022
Revenue Recognition: Financial Fraud and Financial Statements – Part 3
Financial statement fraud often involves shuffling the recording of transactions to give the illusion of higher revenues and / or sales, and other ploys. Find out red flags and what you need to know to feel confident with financial information.
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Progress
March 31, 2022
Cyber insurance for public sector retail operations
As a public sector entity, it’s important to ensure your cyber insurance policy covers what you need, and not more, keeping costs down and coverage realistic.
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Graham Quast CPA, CA•IFA, DIFA, CFE, CFF
Partner
Graham is a Partner with MNP’s Forensics and Litigation Support Services team in Edmonton. Graham delivers tailored advice and solutions to a broad base of clients, including Indigenous communities and businesses, professionals, private enterprises, and organizations in the public sector.
Graham investigates workplace fraud and theft, employee misconduct, shareholder disputes, power of attorney abuses, and investment fraud. In addition, Graham provides damage quantification services in the context of litigation, expropriation, and business interruption insurance. He has developed a specialty in designing and providing data analytic services in varied environments. He also performs fraud risk assessments and fraud awareness training.
Graham earned a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) in accounting from the University of Alberta in 2007. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2009. He is a CA – Designated Investigative and Forensic Accounting Specialist (CA•IFA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Graham also holds a Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting (DIFA) from the University of Toronto.
Graham has been qualified as an expert in Forensic Accounting and has testified in arbitration in Alberta, in connection with an expropriation, and before the Supreme Court of British Columbia.