{"id":22270,"date":"2025-08-12T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=22270"},"modified":"2025-07-10T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:43:16","slug":"questions-for-new-forensic-accounting-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/questions-for-new-forensic-accounting-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for New Forensic Accounting Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you ask a new potential client?<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of my work comes from attorneys, on behalf of their clients. I have two clients: the attorney and his\/her client.<\/p>\n<p>My questions are pretty much the same no matter which of them I&#8217;m talking to on that first phone call. The most important questions I ask are things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What kind of case is this &#8211; I am looking for some specifics of who is involved and what is going on.<\/li>\n<li>What do you need me to do &#8211; Are they really in need of a forensic accountant, or do they need someone else, like a private investigator? Are they looking for services that I provide? For example, I trace funds in a divorce, but I do not provide business valuation services.<\/li>\n<li>When does the work need to be done &#8211; I do most of my case work in 60 to 90 days.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s great for clients, but it also means that there are cases I can&#8217;t take because I&#8217;m already at capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Can you pay my fees &#8211; This might sound impolite, but I have to earn a living. This is where I explain my fixed fees and the deposit I require. I may ask about their budget to ensure that we are on the same page. (Even though I can&#8217;t quote a fee this early, I often get a feeling for a range of fees.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Figure out the questions that are most important in your practice, and be ready to ask them of any potential new client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What questions do you ask a new potential client? Nearly all of my work comes from attorneys, on behalf of their clients. I have two clients: the attorney and his\/her client. My questions are pretty much the same no matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forensic-accountant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/question.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-5Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22274,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions\/22274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}