Quantify Loss Without Double Counting
Prepare a loss bridge that avoids double counting and ties each component to evidence.
The draft loss total includes false invoice face values, late fees, unreversed accruals, and amounts later recovered. It overstates the economic harm. Loss bridge: gross questionable amount - exclusions + supported consequential costs - recoveries +/- unresolved timing items = net supported loss. The common trap is adding every bad-looking accounting line, even when some lines reverse, duplicate, or recover the same loss. Before $1.9 million reported as loss from all flagged invoice values, fees, and accounting entries. After $855,000 net supported loss before unresolved tax treatment, with every component tied to records. Start gross Gross flagged invoice face value…
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