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Michelle Jennings-Jones

Director
michellej@gowerjones.com.au

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Experience

Michelle commenced her career in 1989 as an auditor and continued in this role until 2002. Michelle’s audit experience includes managing the audits of public, private and foreign owned companies operating in the mining, manufacturing, publishing, telecommunications, construction, wholesale, retail and franchise industries. During this time Michelle was also involved in commercial transactions including initial public offerings and capital raisings and the preparation of due diligence and independent accountant’s reports.

In 2002, utilising her audit, financial, analytical and investigations experience, Michelle specialised in forensic accounting and business valuations. During the period 2002 to date Michelle has frequently been instructed:

  • As the independent expert on commercial litigations and arbitration matters concerning:
  • economic loss and damage assessments – loss of profits and valuations
  • professional negligence, accounting standards and auditing standards.

Michelle is regularly engaged to provide independent expert opinions or consulting services in respect to the application of Accounting Standards and Auditing Standards, public company financial statement disclosure and accounting for transactions in respect of audit negligence and directors liability matters.

Michelle is one of the few independent audit experts who is regularly instructed by lawyers acting for either the applicant or the defendant to provide her expert opinion on audit negligence claims as well as calculate the loss arising from the professional negligence.

  • solvency
  • fraud and other investigations
  • earn out disputes.
In her role as independent expert, Michelle has provided evidence in the Federal Court, Supreme Court of NSW and the District Court on numerous occasions since 2007.
  • As the consulting expert to assist the legal team throughout the litigation process, including:
  • assisting with discovery of relevant financial documents
  • assisting in drafting the accounting aspects and particulars for statements of claims, cross claims
  • quantifying alternate loss scenarios, testing assumptions
  • critiquing independent expert accounting reports
  • attending mediation
  • assisting counsel with cross examination of accounting experts
  • preparing auditors and directors for public examination.
  • As the jointly appointed or Court appointed expert in disputes between parties.

Qualifications and Memberships

  • Bachelor of Business – Accounting Major, University of Technology, Sydney (1993)
  • Member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA) (1995) and then Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) (2013)
  • Certificate of Public Practice (2003)
  • Registered Company Auditor, No. 278573 (2004)
  • CA Forensic Accounting Specialist (2018)
Please contact GowerJones Forensic Accountants for a copy of Michelle’s Curriculum Vitae.

Career Summary

2018 – Present
Director, GowerJones Forensic
Accountants Pty Limited
2009 – 2018
Director, GowerJones & Co Pty Limited
2003 – 2009
Director, GCA Gower & Co Pty Limited
2002 – 2003
Senior Manager, GCA Gower & Co
2000 – 2002
Senior Manager, PKF
1995 – 2000
Manager, Grant Thornton
1989 – 1995
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu / Duesburys (a predecessor firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu)
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