Forensic Accounting Services in New Jersey
GTA Accounting Group is a forensic accounting firm serving New Jersey attorneys, business owners and individuals. We trace assets in divorce and matrimonial matters, investigate fraud, value businesses in dispute, and quantify economic damages for litigation. Work is documented to be examined. Consultations are free.
What our forensic accounting services cover
Divorce and matrimonial asset tracing
We reconstruct financial records to establish what a marital estate actually contains: unreported income, transfers made before filing, business cash flow that does not match reported earnings, and lifestyle analysis where declared income does not explain spending.
Fraud investigation
Employee theft, vendor and billing schemes, misappropriated funds and falsified records. We follow the transaction trail, quantify the loss, and document it so it survives scrutiny.
Business valuation disputes
Where two sides disagree on what a business is worth — shareholder disputes, partner exits, matrimonial settlements — we value the entity on the records rather than the narrative.
Litigation support and expert reporting
Working with attorneys: document review, damages calculation, rebuttal of an opposing expert, and reporting written to be read by people who are not accountants.
Economic damages
Lost profits, business interruption and breach-of-contract damages, quantified with the assumptions stated and defensible.
Who instructs a forensic accountant
Most of this work reaches us one of three ways. An attorney needs financial findings that will be tested by the other side. A business owner suspects money is leaving and needs to know how much and by what route before deciding what to do about it. Or two parties value the same business very differently and need a figure built from records rather than positions. In each case the deliverable is the same: findings, the method behind them, and the assumptions stated.
We work across New Jersey, including Newark, Jersey City, Princeton and Atlantic City. For day-to-day accounting rather than a dispute, start with our New Jersey accounting services.
Common questions
What does a forensic accountant do in a divorce?
A forensic accountant traces assets and income that the financial disclosures do not fully explain. That means reconstructing bank and business records, identifying transfers made before or during proceedings, testing whether reported income matches actual lifestyle, and valuing any business interest. The output is documentation an attorney can use.
How much does a forensic accountant cost for a divorce?
It depends almost entirely on how much record reconstruction is needed. A straightforward income analysis is a far smaller engagement than tracing assets through several entities across multiple years. We scope the work and quote it before starting, and the first consultation is free.
When should a business bring in a forensic accountant?
Usually at the point where something in the numbers does not reconcile and the explanation matters legally or financially: suspected employee theft, a partner dispute, a transaction under challenge, or an insurance or contract claim that requires losses to be quantified rather than estimated.
Do you work directly with attorneys?
Yes. Much of this work is instructed by counsel, and the reporting is written for that context — findings, method, and the assumptions behind each figure stated plainly enough to be examined.