Financial Modelling

Forensic Modelling

Sapere’s forensic team specialises in providing financial modelling that provides clients and experts with clear, accessible information that is tailored to their needs.

We pride ourselves on our ability to cut through the white noise of data and jargon.

Our clients value our ability to interrogate data, identify risks and opportunities, and help them when navigating litigation, arbitration, investigations or other business changes such as transactions or regulatory reviews.

Our financial modelling expertise complements our experience in forensic accounting and damages, international arbitration and litigation support services.

What we do

No two of our projects are the same, requiring a bespoke solution for each.

This may result in a single-discipline output or an end-to-end service which may see us:

  • Extract data from current or legacy systems alongside trusted business associates
  • Manipulate data into the required form and volume
  • Interpret and analyse data
  • Identify, scope and build needs-based models, tools or dashboards to convey the information contained within the data.

 

We have delivered numerous projects across a diverse range of disciplines, including:

  • Data extraction
  • Financial analysis
  • Financial modelling
  • Scenario analysis
  • Model audit and review.

 

Our modelling skills are directly transferable to building models for litigation as well as in non-contentious contexts and we have experience in developing:

  • Operational models for corporates that can be rolled forward and expanded at the conclusion of each financial year
  • Models for guiding Government policy-making including tenders or the establishment of regulatory regimes
  • Models for private clients such as high net worth individuals, such as the division of parental assets between siblings in an inheritance.

 

We provide sophisticated work products that can be easily accessed, used and understood by corporate and individual clients, law firms, courts and counsel alike.

Examples of our work

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Demand model of the Post, Digital and Visual Effects sector

Developed a market and demand model of the Post, Digital and Visual Effects sector in Australia including modelling how the size of the sector would change in response to changes in macroeconomic variables such as interest rates or by incentives offered across jurisdictions.

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Prepared an analysis of the potential economic impact of establishing a legal recreational cannabis market in Victoria. Included preparation of estimates of additional jobs and government revenues.

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Economic impacts of tourism

Preparation of a report for the NZ Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment providing advice on tourism funding flows across stakeholders, along with the economic impacts of tourism, and to offer a high-level indication of potential infrastructure pressures associated with the Tourism Growth Roadmap.

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Distillery industry export market analysis

Preparation of a report for the Victorian distilling industry to identify a set of priority markets with demonstrated export potential for Victorian distilled products, including the development of market entry strategies for each market identified. Explanatory text about expertise

Governance Framework and Regulatory Improvement

Design and delivery advisory for a program to reduce risk for a maritime regulator. Program design was based on development and agreement of a shared risk model between the regulator, port and industry stakeholders.

Implementation of the Victorian Business Acceleration Fund

Assisting the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance with the delivery of the Victorian Business Acceleration Fund which comprises nearly 100 individual projects aimed at reducing the cost of business and encouraging economic growth.

Major Government Infrastructure Program

Program design for a major, multi-year departmental change program, including development and implementation of required program controls.

Local Government Grants Program Governance Review

Review and recommended improvements to governance through the full lifecycle of grant program design, project selection and allocation through to delivery and benefits realisation.

Major Government Infrastructure Program

Program design for a major, multi-year departmental change program, including development and implementation of required program controls.

Sapere Good Governance Guide

Based on years of project and program assessment, assurance and delivery, the Sapere Good Governance Guide helps establish the right governance and decision making for major initiatives as a way of maximising success and avoiding common challenges that can lead to project failure.

We help our clients navigate complex, data-dense matters such as litigation, arbitration and investigations with confidence.

Key contacts

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Sue Friend

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