Specialist Advisory Services

We are well positioned to provide advice that is free from conflicts of interest. Partners lead and they demonstrate the organisation's worldwide commitment to quality and distinctive customer service.
Grant Thornton Japan provide the following specialist advisory services:

• Business Risk Services
• Transaction Advisory Services
• Forensic & Investigation Services
• Valuations
• Recovery & Reorganisation

Business Risk Services

Every company is faced with strategic, financial, operational and technological challenges. We can provide the advice necessary to help you manage risk and improve your business performance. We can deliver objective, value-added solutions that will enable you to strengthen internal controls and governance processes, implement sound organisational strategies, increase technological capabilities and improve your operational efficiency.

We provide advice and solutions in the fields of:

• Internal audit
• External audit support
• Internal controls
• Corporate governance
• Technology risk assurance and advisory
• Process risk and control
• Risk management consulting
• Revenue assurance and cost verification
• Sarbanes-Oxley and other third party assurance

Transaction Advisory Services

We will identify key business issues through our rigorous and tailored risk and business analysis process. We will then work with you to resolve these issues with a reporting method designed to suit each client and their preferred medium.
Our services have been developed to meet the needs of the mid-market sector to include: vendor due diligence; acquisition due diligence; flotation and reporting accountant work; operational due diligence; and management assessment.

Forensic & Investigation Services

We provides investigative accounting, tracing, dispute resolution support and expert witness services for civil, criminal and insurance matters. Our success is founded on the quality of our services and our lack of conflicts. We recognise that independence and objectivity are essential to this specialism.
Our close links with forensic and investigation specialists throughout the Grant Thornton International network means that we can quickly assemble cross-border teams and undertake international projects.
We offer solutions and advice in the following areas:

• expert witness and forensic accounting
• Investigations
• Insurance claims
• Forensic IT

Valuations

Is the valuation of a company and that of its shares the same? How do we properly apply valuation of going concerns and the valuation of a business to be wound-up? How should we determine the relationship between several valuation methods and the law of one price? Authorized valuation institutions are not mature as of yet except for those within the real estate market. We devote considerable energy to tackling issues of valuation.
Objective valuation is more frequently sought, from business strategies to damage compensation, in addition to business reorganization, business rehabilitation, selling of businesses, impairment accounting, calculation of owner's equity, maintenance of tax risks, and claims for damage compensation.
Principal valuation categories: corporate valuation, share valuation, credit valuation, real estate valuation, and intellectual property valuation.

Recovery & Reorganisation

We focus on identifying and resolving issues affecting profitability, protecting enterprise value and facilitating a full recovery where possible.Our assignments vary from financially robust companies seeking to acquire underperforming competitors, to distressed businesses requiring an urgent solution.
We make proposals by maximizing various methods and techniques such as stock swaps, stock transfers, mergers, business transfers, corporate divestiture, investment in kind and classified stocks.