Litigation support with organized financial analysis

Attorneys and business clients involved in a dispute when a specific accounting question requires source-supported schedules, reconciliations, or financial explanations. Legal matters are accepted only after the parties, intended use, deadlines, available records, and potential conflicts are reviewed.

• Counsel needs financial records organized around a disputed issue
• Transactions, ownership activity, or reported results need reconciliation
• Settlement discussions require a credible financial schedule
• Deposition, mediation, or hearing preparation involves accounting records

• Counsel's defined accounting questions, relevant period, disputed amounts, key dates, and intended use of the work
• Source documents reconciled to the general ledger, financial statements, tax returns, and schedules produced by the parties
• Transaction sequences, ownership activity, payments, transfers, and accounting entries related to the disputed issue
• Competing calculations, damage models, source inputs, and assumptions supplied through counsel
• Record provenance, production indexes, missing periods, conflicting documents, and limitations affecting each schedule

Attorney-directed work follows an agreed communication and document protocol. We preserve source references, version schedules, and avoid conclusions beyond the accounting evidence. Testimony or expert-report work requires a separate suitability and conflict review.

Litigation support is not legal advice and does not guarantee admissibility or an outcome. Deadlines, privilege, discovery duties, and legal strategy remain counsel's responsibility.

• Define the question, period, standard, and intended use with counsel
• Build traceable schedules from original records
• Document assumptions, missing information, and limitations
• Communicate accounting findings in clear, neutral language

• An issues, period, data-source, and responsibility matrix aligned with the agreed accounting scope
• Chronologies, reconciliations, and transaction schedules cross-referenced to source records
• An indexed workpaper and source-document file with version-controlled schedules
• A written summary of methods, assumptions, missing information, unresolved items, and limitations
• Draft financial schedules or demonstrative summaries for counsel's review
• A separate expert report or testimony plan only if that work is later evaluated and accepted in writing

Protect sensitive records. Do not send tax documents, Social Security numbers, bank records, IDs, or other sensitive files through ordinary email. Call the office before transmitting sensitive records.

• Counsel's written accounting questions, key dates, pleadings, operative orders, and relevant discovery requests
• A production index identifying records received, records requested, custodians, formats, and known gaps
• Contracts, ownership agreements, amendments, transaction documents, and settlement terms relevant to the financial issue
• General ledgers, trial balances, financial statements, tax returns, and prior accounting schedules
• Bank, credit-card, loan, merchant-processor, invoice, bill, payment, payroll, and fixed-asset records for the relevant period
• Correspondence and internal reports that explain disputed transactions or management assumptions, when counsel determines they may be reviewed
• Prior expert reports, deposition excerpts, interrogatory responses, and opposing schedules supplied through counsel
• Any damages model or calculation at issue, including its source inputs and stated assumptions

The accounting analysis itself is not unique to Florida. In a Florida or Broward County matter, counsel—not the CPA—determines the applicable procedural rules, discovery duties, deadlines, privilege questions, evidentiary requirements, and filing strategy. Safe Harbor Accounting's role remains limited to the financial question and deliverables stated in the engagement.