Sally Davitt is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience. She has been appointed as a forensic accounting expert on numerous occasions.
Sally has testified in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia. She has acted as an expert in an expert determination and has prepared numerous expert reports on disputes alleging loss and damage and post-acquisition issues, in some cases with values of over $1 billion.
Sally has assisted law firms, corporate, government and not for profit clients with forensic audits for compliance, governance and cost quantification purposes in numerous areas, including financial services, matrimonial issues and estate disputes. Her work includes high-profile investigations and disputes in Australia and the UK, and she has spent time on secondment with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and a UK audit firm.
Sally specializes in complex financial investigations, commercial disputes, accounting irregularities, forensic audits, intellectual property disputes, warranty and indemnity insurance cases, cost verification reviews, fraud investigations, and government and regulatory compliance. She has conducted numerous reviews on behalf of regulators, investigations into groups of companies with tax avoidance structures, and identification of accounting irregularities in complex groups of companies and trusts, and preparation for liquidators’ public examinations.
Sally is a Forensic Accounting Specialist and Certified Business Valuation Specialist, as designated by Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand. She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
