Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Natasha Mastroianni, Senior Associate, Sage Family Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Professional Skills
Assessing Tax Issues and Assessing Financial Statements: A Forensic Accountant’s Perspective
- Enhance awareness of the importance of tax issues in family law settlements
- Identifying undisclosed tax issues and their potential tax liabilities
- Unlock the critical elements of Profit & Loss and the Balance Sheet Statements for family law matters
- Understanding the difference in assessing financial statements between a forensic accountant and a tax accountant
Presented by Darryn Hockley, Partner – Forensic Consulting, Grant Thornton
Presenters
Natasha Mastroianni, Senior Associate, Sage Family Lawyers
Natasha is an Accredited Family Law Specialist and has practiced exclusively in family law since 2018. She also has a Masters in Applied Law (Family Law) from the College of Law. Upon commencing her legal career in 2014 at a generalist legal practice in the northern suburbs, Natasha practised in family law and intervention order matters as well as property law and other litigation matters. Having practical experience in other practice areas assists Natasha when these interrelated issues arise in her clients’ family law matters. Natasha prides herself on providing accurate, realistic, practical, and solution-focused advice to her clients, with empathy and compassion, whilst aiming to achieve the best possible results for her clients. She is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV). Natasha is the Chair of the LIV’s Family Law Section’s Courts Practice Committee and a member of the Family Law Section Executive Committee. She is also a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and is the Secretary of the Northern Suburbs Law Association.
Darryn Hockley, Partner – Forensic Consulting, Grant Thornton
Darryn Hockley is a Partner in Forensic Consulting at Grant Thornton based in the Melbourne office. Darryn has more than 20 years of local and international experience, working with a diverse range of clients and their advisors. Initially practicing in taxation and accounting compliance in the mid-market he now practices exclusively in the litigation and disputes area of accounting. His areas of practice cover a wide range of commercial and business transactions and disputes across a number of industries often requiring the reconstruction and analysis of accounting records, and financial data. Darryn has been called upon as an expert and given expert testimony in a range of matrimonial matters. Areas of expertise include the valuation of businesses, companies and trusts including complex and international structures. Valuation of intellectual property, share options and executive performance rights and entitlements. Darryn is an accredited business valuer of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand. Darryn is also a regular guest speaker for legal professional development organisations including Legal Wise and Lexis Nexis on accounting and valuation issues.
