Karyn Lander

Executive summary

Karyn is a Partner in BDO’s Forensic Services team in Perth. She has over 30 years’ accounting and investigation experience. She helps her clients by providing forensic accounting, internal audit, fraud risk management, investigative, and advisory services, including investigations into allegations of fraud and misconduct.

Karyn’s experience includes assisting with dispute matters, quantification of loss and earnings, and litigation support. She can also provide fraud awareness training and develop or review fraud risk assessments. Karyn leads our anti-money laundering (AML)/counter financing of terrorism (CFT) services, including AML/CFT independent reviews, and developing and implementing AML/CFT risk assessments.

Karyn also has extensive experience in the area of family law, assisting clients with forensic accounting and expert reports for family law matters.

Expertise

• Fraud detection and prevention
• Fraud and misconduct investigations
• Third party due diligence
• Forensic accounting and dispute services
• Family law matters
• Litigation and dispute resolution services
• Quantification of loss
• Independent expert reports
• AML/CFT independent reviews

Experience

• Provided supervisory services, managing a business day-to-day while performing a detailed examination of over 7,500 transactional records to identify fraudulent transactions and misuse of trust funds
• Investigations such as detailed transaction records examination to identify fraudulent transactions, transactions not complying with company guidelines or policies, and potentially involving criminal offences

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Business Law)
• Certificate IV in Government Investigation
• Certificate III in Investigative Services
• Certified Practising Accountant, CPA Australia
• Registered Tax Agent
• Licensed Investigator in Western Australia
• Associate, Certified Fraud Examiners
• Working with Children Check

Professional engagements and activities

• Preparing and delivering university tax courses relating to tax administration and capital gains