Goldblatt McGuigan

As a firm, our services include the following:

• Management Consultancy;
• Audit and Accounting;
• Business Planning;
• Taxation;
• Forensic Accounting and Investigation;
• Corporate Finance and Recovery; and
• Advanced Forensics Solutions.

Management Consultancy

Our Management Consultancy Practice provides clients across Ireland with leading edge advice and support in all aspects of strategic development, business improvement and change management.

Our highly experienced team of consultancy professionals has in-depth knowledge and a proven track record in delivering successful results as trusted advisors to clients in the private, public and not for profit sectors covering:

• Customer Service and Operations;
• Finance;
• People and Organisations;
  • Leadership and Management Development;
  • Assessment and Development Centres;
  • Team Development;
  • Executive Coaching;
  • HR Strategy; and
  • Performance Management.
• Strategic and General IS/IT Advice; and
• Project and programme Management.

Auditing and Accounting

In an ever more regulated business environment our Audit Team seeks to ensure our clients’ accounting compliance obligations are fully met and that internal systems and controls are at best practice standards.

Our services include -

• Annual Audits;
• Year End Accounts from small business accounts to complex Group Consolidations;
• Management Accounts and Special Assignment Investigative Reporting;
• Annual Results, Costs and Margins Analysis;
• Financial Modelling;
• Cash-flow and Working Capital Management;
• Computerised Management Information Systems;
• Review of Internal Business Controls and Systems;
• Bank Negotiations;
• Grant Applications, Negotiation and Compliance; and
• Financial and Fraud Investigations.
• Secondment of Accounting Staff
• Company Secretarial Services
• Anti Money Laundering Advice and Systems
• Computer Accounting and Training

Business Planning

The aim of our business planning service is to help you -

• Identify where your business is now;
• Plan for the future;
• Identify key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats;
• Improve your management information;
• Maximise the effective use of resources;
• Identify funding requirements; and
• Forecast the financial implications of key projects.

Taxation

Tax planning is about selecting the most effective route to achieve both business and personal objectives. Our skill lies in working with our clients to put together an appropriate and innovative strategy in order to achieve their goals.

Our Tax Partners, Directors and Managers are technically strong and commercially aware. Their expertise covers the full spectrum of personal, corporate, VAT and employee taxation.

• Corporate Tax;
• Personal Tax;
• VAT; and
• Payroll.

Forensics Accounting and Investigation

Goldblatt McGuigan Forensic Accounting and Investigation team is one of the leading providers of litigation support services in Northern Ireland with over 25 years proven experience in this specialist field.

We invest heavily in the continued professional development of our personnel to ensure they are at the cutting edge of developments, this includes undertaking expert witness training (via the Cardiff University / Bond Solon Expert Witness Accreditation), securing membership of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and through our corporate membership of the Institute of Expert Witnesses.

Our service offering within Forensics Accounting and Investigation includes:

• Personal Injury and Fatal Accident;
• Commercial Litigation and Matrimonial;
• Fraud Investigation and Prevention; and
• Advanced Forensic Solutions.

Corporate Finance and Recovery

Corporate Finance

Our Corporate Finance team has an impressive track record in advising on and executing corporate deals and financial negotiations on behalf of clients.

Our services include -

• Mergers and Acquisitions, the sale and purchase of businesses, purchaser/vendor identification, valuation, negotiations, assistance with share purchase agreement, also taxation planning and structuring;
• MBO/MBI, advice to management on the purchase of their businesses and managers seeking acquisition opportunities;
• Raising Debt and Equity Capital;
• Investigations and Due Diligence Reporting;
• Transaction Management; and
• Business and Share Valuation.

Corporate Recovery

The focus of our Corporate Recovery Services is to minimise the difficulties created by potential corporate or personal insolvency and to implement positive restructuring or recovery plans where possible. In difficult situations time is of the essence and we will move quickly to achieve a positive outcome for your business.

Our Corporate Recovery team offers expert advice on:

• Liquidity review and assessment of available options;
• Debt restructuring and negotiation with banks and creditors; and
• Formulation and implementation of recovery strategies.

Advanced Forensics Solutions

Our investment in the most up to date computer forensics software (identical to that being used by Law enforcement agencies across the world), coupled with our vast experience in forensic accounting and investigation enables us to develop a local one stop shop for combating computer exposure and identifying fraud. Services we offer include

Computer Forensics

• Suspicious Transaction Analysis;
• Data Mining;
• Data imaging;
• Data recovery;
• Deleted item retrieval (e.g. files and email);
• Computer usage reporting; and
• Identification of internet & email abuse.

Investigative Accounting

• Internal investigations (on a covert basis if required);
• Asset and cash tracing; and
• False accounting.

Fraud Risk Management

• Provision of fraud risk assessments;
• Systems and control testing;
• Provision of fraud prevention strategy and fraud response plans; and
• Fraud awareness training.