Citadel Forensic Accounting
Citadel Forensic Accounting

Forensic Accounting. Clarity. Confidence.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Citadel Forensic Accounting provides law firms, corporations, and stakeholders with clear, defensible financial insight across litigation, investigations, compliance, and dispute resolution.

Fraud Investigations
Divorce Forensics
Damages Analysis
Expert Valuations
Litigation Support
Month-by-month trends reveal anomalies and potential misconduct.
Quantifying hidden transfers and irregular transactions to build defensible findings.
Forensic Breakdown of records reviewed (bank, corporate, third-party)

Core Services at a Glance

We provide comprehensive forensic accounting and advisory solutions designed to bring clarity, credibility, and defensibility to high-stakes financial matters.

Fraud and Forensic Investigations
We investigate financial irregularities, suspected fraud, and asset misappropriation. Using data analytics, transaction mapping, and digital forensics, we uncover the truth hidden in the numbers.
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Divorce and Family Law Forensics
We assist in high-net-worth and complex divorces by uncovering hidden assets, analyzing spending patterns, and valuing businesses. Our clear and defensible work helps attorneys and clients negotiate fair outcomes or present evidence in court.
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Business and Asset Valuations
We determine fair market value in matters involving divorce, business interruption, or partner disputes. Our valuations are grounded in accepted standards and built to withstand professional and legal scrutiny.
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Litigation Support
We prepare expert reports, assist with depositions, create courtroom exhibits, and provide testimony. Our work is structured to meet the highest standards of admissibility and clarity in court.
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Explore our expertise

Comprehensive Forensic and Advisory Services

Beyond core offerings, Citadel provides a wide range of specialized services designed to support attorneys, corporations, and individuals in complex financial matters. Our approach combines deep technical skill with clear communication, ensuring results that are defensible, practical, and timely.

Why Choose Citadel

Expertise, clarity, and responsiveness for Atlanta’s most complex financial disputes.

Citadel Forensic Accounting is an Atlanta-based firm dedicated to helping attorneys, businesses, and individuals resolve complex financial disputes. We specialize in divorce forensics, fraud investigations, business valuations, and litigation support, providing court-ready analysis that withstands scrutiny. By combining local insight with proven forensic methodologies, we deliver the clarity and defensible evidence clients need in Georgia’s most challenging cases.

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Big Four Discipline,
Boutique Agility

Our foundation combines Deloitte training with decades of entrepreneurial leadership. We bring the rigor of national firms while delivering the speed, flexibility, and personal attention of a boutique practice.

Credentials That
Withstand Scrutiny

Led by a Certified Forensic Accountant and Certified Public Accountant, our work is designed to meet the highest professional and legal standards, ensuring findings hold up in court.

Clarity in
High-Stakes Matters

Citadel translates complex financial records into straightforward, defensible narratives. Attorneys, judges, and stakeholders trust our ability to simplify the details and provide evidence that holds up under pressure.

About Citadel

Delivering forensic clarity for high-stakes matters

Citadel Forensic Accounting is a boutique firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, built on the dual foundation of Big Four professionalism and decades of entrepreneurial leadership. Our partners bring a unique combination of forensic accounting, litigation support, governance, and compliance expertise. We serve attorneys, corporations, and individuals who require clarity, credibility, and court-ready financial insight.

Experience and Expertise
Big Four training combined with entrepreneurial leadership insight.
Focused Compliance
Practical SOC, HIPAA, and privacy assessments tailored locally.
How We Work

Our Forensic
Engagement Process

Citadel Forensic Accounting follows a clear, defensible process for complex financial matters in Atlanta. We scope the issues, analyze records, deliver court-ready findings, and support counsel through resolution.

Litigation Support Package

Our Forensic Advisory Retainer is ideal for law firms, businesses, and individuals who require ongoing access to expert forensic support. Whether for due diligence, case preparation, rapid response to anomalies, or interim analysis, Citadel provides prioritized access, discounted hourly rates, and responsive support tailored to your high-stakes needs.

Priority access to forensic accounting analyses and consultations
Preliminary assessments for suspected fraud or irregularities
Early warning financial anomaly review and data triage
Reserved capacity for litigation support, reporting, and testimony
Discounted milestone pricing or retainer credits on project work
Testimonials

What Our Clients Say?

Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what some of our clients have to say about our forensic accounting engagements.

Help Center

Here you’ll find answers to the questions we hear most often: when forensic accounting is required, how we help in divorce matters, the scope of our expert witness work, and the regions we serve.

1. What is forensic accounting and when is it needed?
Forensic accounting applies investigative techniques to financial records to uncover irregularities and provide clear evidence. It is most often needed in litigation, divorce, fraud cases, or disputes involving damages.
2. How can Citadel help in a divorce case?
We assist attorneys and clients by uncovering hidden assets, analyzing spending patterns, and valuing businesses. Our findings support fair settlements and provide defensible evidence in court.
3. Do you provide expert witness testimony?
Yes. Citadel prepares expert reports, supports depositions, and delivers testimony that is clear and defensible. We also create exhibits designed to simplify complex financial issues for judges and juries.
4. What geographic areas does Citadel serve?
Citadel Forensic Accounting is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and works with attorneys and businesses across the United States. With secure technology and experience handling matters in multiple jurisdictions, we provide the same level of clarity and defensible analysis whether the case is local or national.

Citadel Forensic Accounting

Clear, defensible financial insight for litigation, investigations, and disputes. Based in Atlanta, we support attorneys, businesses, and individuals with work that stands up in court.

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Fraud and Forensic Investigations

Divorce and Family Law Forensics

Business and Asset Valuations

Litigation Support

Location Information

Citadel Forensic Accounting
12220 Birmingham Hwy
Building 30
Atlanta, Georgia 30004

Mon – Fri: 8.00am – 5.00pm