Inside ecommerce platform economics.

Off the map: ecommerce settlement mechanics in UK forensic practice

Every Big 4 firm has a named forensic methodology for cryptocurrency. None has published one for ecommerce settlement. Nineteen UK administrations since 2020 show no source-level platform reconstruction.

• The ratio of published forensic methodology: 100% to zero
• Rule 3.30 and SIP 7: structural silence on platform-held funds in administration
• Debenhams, MatchesFashion, Cazoo, Olsam: what the public insolvency record reveals when you look for settlement reconstruction
• The four-year VAT claim window: documented recoveries from £14,500 to over £500,000
• Management accounts in ecommerce acquisitions are three transformations removed from the settlement data that would confirm whether reported revenue actually arrived