Accounting Expert Witnesses
What is an accounting expert witness?
Accounting expert witnesses typically have advanced degrees (MBA, PhD) with expertise in forensic accounting, economic damages, business valuation, and/or are certified public accountants (CPA), certified valuation analysts (CVA), or certified fraud examiners (CFE). Some experts are also certified in financial forensics (CFF). The chosen expert could be a member of an industry organization such as the Institute of Certified Forensic Accountants (ICFA), the National Association of Forensic Accountants (NAFA), the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), the American Board of Forensic Accounting (ABFA), or the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
What types of cases require an accounting expert witness?
Litigation matters that require an expert in accounting include forensic accounting services for a fraud investigations, business disputes involving a breach of contract, accounting firm auditing of financial records to support commercial litigation, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) expert opinions on economic damages relating to professional malpractice, real estate money laundering, business valuation, advisory service fraud, damage analysis for personal injury cases, intellectual property infringement valuation services, lost profits calculations to support business interruption cases, forensic accounting expert witness to support shareholder disputes, fiduciary duty, and tax liability and financial statement disputes. Accounting has several sub-specialties including financial accounting, management accounting, external auditing, tax accounting, forensic accounting, political campaign accounting, and cost accounting that may require additional expertise.
What litigation support work might an accounting expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by an accounting expert witness could include services to support legal proceedings, often in a financial crime case such as fraud or embezzlement. Expert witness services by an accountant or economist could include auditing of financial records and financial statements, authoring an expert report or expert opinion, and sitting for depositions, dispute resolution, and courtroom testimony. In addition, litigators may request a CPA expert or forensic accountant for pre-litigation consulting services. In cases involving a sizeable financial stake, a law firm may require an accounting specialist with prior expert witness testimony experience.
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Accounting Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Accounting experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Accounting landscape.
Expert Witness #263873
This expert leads a highly successful consultancy specializing in Forensic Accounting, Economic Damage Analysis and resolving disputes by providing technical expertise in the relevant accounting and damages issues. This expert brings to the table many years of experience in public and private industry accounting, including forensic accounting and litigation support for both Plaintiffs and Defendants.
This expert regularly analyzes economic damages such as: embezzlements; fraud investigations; equipment and other contents losses; financial motive; fidelity bonds; anti-trust damages and theft losses. This expert has testified as expert witness in Federal and State Courts, and has testified on numerous occasions in a wide variety of economic damage and fraud related cases.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #253873
This expert is a founding member of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert brings to the table many years of valuation, financial analysis and litigation support experience, specializing as a consultant and expert in the fields of forensic accounting, economic damages analysis in commercial disputes, business valuation and automotive industry issues. This expert also has served as financial advisor to bank groups and creditor committees in connection with financial restructuring. Prior to founding the firm, this expert was the partner in charge of the Financial & Economic Consulting practices of a large accounting firm. This expert also served as an associate, manager and partner in the firm's assurance and corporate finance practices. This expert has served as a financial expert in well over two hundred engagements involving testimony in deposition, trial and alternative dispute resolution settings as an expert in auditing and accounting, commercial economics, financial and operational analysis, fraud investigation, determination of economic damages and business valuation. This expert has also participated in hundreds of additional commercial dispute engagements in a consulting role, a mediation role or where resolution of the matter was achieved without expert testimony. Matters addressed in these engagements include:
- Contract and business tort claims for lost profits and other damages- Stockholder disputes and post-acquisition disputes- Financial reporting fraud and asset misappropriation- Securities law enforcement actions- Construction and government contracting claims- Intellectual property disputes- Class action damage claims- Professional malpractice claims- Business interruption claimsThis expert has served as a sole arbitrator, court-appointed expert and arbitration panelist in matters involving commercial disputes, post-acquisition disputes and stockholder valuation disputes. This expert has been a course instructor, seminar leader and speaker at numerous professional conferences and continuing education programs on topics including auditing and accounting, litigation consulting, accounting theory and practice and forensic accounting and has been involved in the MICPA Litigation Consulting and Business Valuation Committee and the MICPA Fraud Issues Task Force.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #263960
This expert serves as Manager and helps lead a highly successful consultancy specializing in Forensic Accounting, Economic Damage Analysis and resolving disputes by providing technical expertise in the relevant accounting and damages issues. This expert brings to the table many years of experience in public and private industry accounting and litigation support for both Plaintiffs and Defendants.
This expert regularly analyzes economic damages for small businesses to multinational companies, including multimillion-dollar disputes. The financial accounting and economic studies are analyzed with independence, objectivity and consistency. Damage studies prepared for clients have included: loss of income for job termination, including values and extra expenses; government contract disputes; inventory, equipment and other contents losses; embezzlements; fraud investigations and theft losses. This expert holds a certification in Financial Forensics as well as a CPA and has developed/presented seminars on Business Interruption. This expert has prior litigation experience including deposition and trial testimony.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #248025
This expert is a Partner in the Advisory Services Department of a public accounting and consulting firm. This expert's project-based practice specializes in forensic accounting and valuation services. This expert has experience managing various litigation support engagements involving matrimonial dissolutions, business owner disputes, fraud investigations, and bankruptcy matters. This expert has testified as an expert witness.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #253230
Director of a nationally recognized consultancy specializing in Business Consulting and Accounting, this expert brings to the table many years of experience in forensic accounting/investigation, economic damages, insurance and litigation support services, as well as business valuations. This expert also has a long history of consulting on insurance damage claims including limited partnerships, intellectual property, trademark valuation, and shareholder and partner disputes. This expert's practice spans various service segments in regions throughout the United States. This expert has consulted on thousands of economic damages, construction delay, lost income, bodily injury, wrongful death, employee dishonesty, construction, and other insurance claims exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States and abroad. This expert also has prepared numerous business valuations of privately held companies as a whole and as partial interests. This expert's expertise also includes forensic accounting, fraud investigation, and litigation support services including assistance in case analysis, preparation for trial, and expert witness testimony.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #253283
This expert is Managing Director of a nationally recognized business valuation/investigative services and tax consulting and compliance firm. This expert has provided business valuation, dispute advisory, forensic accounting, and tax consulting services to clients for many years. This expert has also implemented and administered back and middle office operations for private equity and venture capital funds.
With respect to litigation support activities, this expert is a recognized business valuation and economic damages expert, and has presented expert witness testimony in these areas on numerous occasions. Among other engagements, this expert has provided business valuation services for M&A transactions, corporate divestitures, marital dissolutions, shareholder/partner disputes, joint ventures, estate and gift tax matters, and has analyzed economic damages for both plaintiffs and defendants. On each engagement, this expert uses training as a forensic accountant to formulate comprehensive and understandable analyses.
With respect to forensic accounting expertise, this expert has assisted attorneys throughout all phases of investigations from pre-case assessment through expert witness testimony. Among other engagements, this expert has provided forensic accounting services related to procurement reviews, tenant/landlord lease verifications, and income/cash flow assessments.
This expert holds the following certifications and qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)- Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)- Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)- Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA)This expert has authored articles, and has presented at numerous business conferences.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #253240
This expert is the Director of an internationally recognized consultancy, specializing in Valuation Advisory, Transaction Opinions, and Dispute Consulting, brings to the table many years conducting forensic accounting, complex commercial litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, intellectual property damages, royalty audits and regulatory engagements involving publicly held and private companies as well as municipalities and government entities in a wide variety of industries. This expert has significant experience providing a broad range of business and financial advice to trial lawyers, in-house counsel, audit committees, and stake holders throughout the dispute process in both domestic and international contexts. This expert has also provided testimony in federal and state court as well as matters in mediation. This expert has performed numerous complex financial analyses involving false financial reporting, revenue recognition, warranty accruals, embezzlement and kickback schemes, post-acquisition purchase price accounting, cash application, Ponzi schemes, procurement fraud and asset tracing, among others. Additionally, this expert has directly participated in several large scale investigations including: an internal investigation of a multi-billion dollar company for potential Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, the investigation of a large metropolitan city's under-funded pension plan, and the investigation and quantification of damages on behalf of an unsecured creditors committee. Furthermore, this expert has assisted named corporate compliance monitors in their duties under settlement agreements with various regulatory agencies and evaluated the ability of a large multi-national corporation to pay a multi-billion dollar fine. This expert was an Associate in a Forensic Accounting Litigation Consulting practice where this expert focused on financial investigations and the quantification of economic damages. This expert was an Analyst at an international consultancy, where this expert advised clients on economic, valuation and strategy issues relating to intellectual property and complex commercial disputes.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #261974
This expert is a Managing Director for a highly regarded economic consultancy. This expert has consulted with plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of litigation and commercial dispute matters involving theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, chemicals and livestock, fraud, forensic accounting, conversion, shareholder, professional malpractice, and class action litigation. This expert has performed and managed many complex financial, economic, and accounting analyses, including lost profits, lost wages, reasonable royalties, business valuation, disgorgement/unjust enrichment, tracing, fraud investigation, cost of capital, and pre- and post-judgment interest. This expert has been designated as an expert in state and federal court proceedings and arbitrations and has testified in depositions and trials.
Start Accounting Expert SearchExpert Witness #248036
This expert is the founder of a successful forensic accounting and economic consulting firm. This expert's prior experience was as a senior manager with a prominent accounting firm, and as a consultant with another major accounting organization. This expert is established as an industry authority by lecturing on IP and economic damages at various State Bar Associations and Licensing Industry organization conferences. This expert is not only a CPA, but is also certified in financial forensics and in business valuation by the corresponding certification agencies. This expert works with a staff of consultants, and has significant expert witness experience in both State and Federal Courts throughout the country.
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