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.

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

Key contacts

Erik Backdahl

Some of our recent articles of interest

The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

Client: Sustainable Business Network

This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.

The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

Client: Chorus

This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.

Making New Zealand safer: regulating the engineering profession

Client: Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment

Sapere prepared a Regulatory Impact Statement (RIS) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to support MBIE’s proposal for an occupational regulatory regime for engineers.

Infrastructure consenting for climate targets

Client: Te Waihanga / New Zealand Infrastructure Commission

This research models the impact on New Zealand’s emissions reduction targets if the current resource consenting system continues to delay decisions on infrastructure project consenting.

Māori Primary Health Care

Client: Wai 2575 Claimants

Sapere were asked by the claimants to respond to the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation that a methodology be developed to measure the degree of underfunding of Māori PHOs and providers.

Sizing of the backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia

Client: Australian Eggs

Which came first the chicken or the egg? We don’t have the answer to that, but we do know the size of backyard and micro-commercial egg production in Australia.

A chance to make clinical trials sustainable, effective, and equitable in Aotearoa New Zealand

Client: Liggins Institute University of Auckland

Sapere provided extensive analytical support to a consortium of researchers from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago on a Health Research Council (HRC) and Ministry of Health funded research project. The consortium was brought together to review Aotearoa New Zealand’s clinical trials activity and infrastructure.