Certified Public Accountant Expert Witnesses
What is a certified public accountant expert witness?
Certified public accountant expert witness candidates typically have experience in forensic accounting, economic damages, business valuation, and/or are certified public accountants (CPA). The chosen expert could be a member of an industry organization such as the American institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), or the CPA Firm Management Association (CPAFMA). In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience.
What types of cases require a certified public accountant expert witness?
Expert witness candidates may be engaged in both civil and criminal matters related to fraud, tax disputes, real estate engagements, contracts, economic loss calculations, or accounting malpractice
What litigation support work might a certified public accountant expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support services by a CPA expert witness could include analyses of financial statements, expert report research and preparation, providing expert opinions, depositions, and courtroom testimony.
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Certified Public Accountant Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Certified Public Accountant experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Certified Public Accountant landscape.
Expert Witness #250390
This expert is a Partner in a highly successful Economic Litigation group, is an economics and valuation expert and forensic accountant. This expert holds a CPA with a master’s degree and a law degree, has served as a Special Master and Court-appointed Arbitrator. This expert has conducted royalty audits, negotiated licenses, and valued businesses and intellectual property for several dozen Fortune 500 companies and NLJ 250 law firms. Further, this expert has testified at more than 45 trials and arbitrations involving patent/trademark/copyright/trade secret, joint venture, franchise, acquisition, purchase price, and international transaction disputes.
This expert has been published in journals and law reviews. This expert has participated as a speaker at ABA, AIPLA, IPO, LES, and university conferences or seminar classes. This expert has also served on the faculties of law and business schools.
This expert practiced public accounting with Big Five firms, and is a Certified Public Accountant, and is Certified in Financial Forensics, Global Management Accounting and Patent Valuation.
Start Certified Public Accountant 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 Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #253365
As a partner in a highly successful accounting services consultancy, this expert specializes in providing strategic planning, transaction management, and project management services to corporate and public sector clients. This expert is a relentless client advocate and an excellent negotiator. With a broad professional background and many years of experience in accounting, tax, finance, and consulting for private and public sector clients, this expert provides highly technical expertise concerning strategic real estate, design, and construction opportunities. This expert is extremely effective in analyzing project feasibility and delivering a comprehensive plan that takes a project from conception to completion.
This expert's contributions have resulted in the management of millions of square feet of real estate and construction assignments. Public sector assignments include the development and implementation of municipal and school district campus facility plans that range in scope from $10 million to $150 million. Private sector assignments include strategic planning, incentives, transaction management, and project management of various facility types including office, industrial, and municipal.
This expert received a bachelor's degree in accounting. This expert is a licensed real estate broker and a certified public accountant.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #253452
This expert is the founder and team leader of a highly successful consultancy. This expert is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and has multiple accreditations in business valuation and forensic accounting, including Accredited in Business Valuation, Certified Financial Forensics, Certified Valuation Analyst and Certified Business Appraiser. This expert also has a Master's degree in Taxation. In addition to being a prolific writer in multiple areas involving litigation support, this expert frequently lectures before the legal community on varied financial topics. This expert also has extensive experience as an expert witness.
As an expert in business valuation, forensic accounting, and financial investigations, this expert assists attorneys step by step through the various intricacies of each case and is recognized for an unparalleled ability to present and address financial issues in a clear, organized and strategic manner.
As a valuation and forensic accounting expert, this expert deciphers and uncovers transactions that may have intentionally or unintentionally adversely affected an individual, business or organization. This expert's efforts provide clients with the evidence needed to support their case. This expert investigates business transactions, economic crimes, civil litigation matters and perform specialized audits including:
- Missing assets
- Fund transfers
- Underreporting of income
- Overstating of expenses, and
- Dissipation of assets
This expert at the various methods of Business Valuation, including the asset-based, market approach and income approach methodologies.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #253891
This expert serves as a director of an independent business advisory and transaction services consultancy. This expert is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Accredited in Business Valuations (ABV), and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) and has expertise in tax, accounting, litigation support, business valuation, complex data analysis, financial modeling and has developed various financial modeling tools. This expert has been involved in a wide range of litigation consulting services, providing expertise in the quantification of economic damages in matters ranging from patent and trademark infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, shareholder disputes, business interruption claims, professional malpractice, and contract claims. In connection with these services, this expert regularly performs fact finding and discovery assistance, lost profit calculations, reasonable royalty rate calculations, business valuations, lost earnings and wages computations, and other financial analyses. This expert's business valuation experience includes valuations for business disputes, shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, divorce, and prenuptial agreement purposes. The valuations have encompassed non-marketable, controlling and minority interests in corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. This expert brings to the table many years of accounting experience including supervising, reviewing and preparing financial reports, budgets, forecasts, projections, and business plans. This expert has been a speaker at professional conferences on topics including intellectual property damages and business valuations. This expert has been on the MACPA's planning committee for the Litigation and Business Valuation Annual Conference, and the Litigation Mock Trial, and the Fraud Issues Conference. This expert has also volunteered as an expert witness in the Institute for Continuing Legal Education's Deposition Skills Workshop.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #261329
This damages expert holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics and an M.B.A in Finance from a prestigious university, is a certified public accountant, and has over 30 years' experience in consulting, valuation, and litigation support for a broad range of economic damages and valuation matters.
Prior to opening a consultancy, this expert held senior valuation and litigation support roles at consulting, accounting, and professional services firms and served as a professor at a prestigious school of management.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #272255
This valuation expert is a litigation consultant with over 15 years of experience, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and holds an Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) credential.
This expert has experience with rental properties, including market rental studies for residential properties and analyses of factors affecting property desirability, such as proximity to notable local amenities.
This expert has worked on numerous engagements and has provided testimony in litigation matters.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #278859
This economic damages expert is a senior executive at an economic and financial consulting firm, a retired professor of accounting, a former senior business school administrator, and a former accounting department chair at a university.
This expert has published scholarly articles on the applications of finance and accounting to litigation matters and is regularly called upon to teach in-house seminars at accounting firms and continuing legal and accounting education seminars.
This expert is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is Accredited in Business Valuation.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #280274
This financial investigation, royalty audit, and legal expert is a Certified Public Accountant and attorney with over 40 years of collective financial investigation, audit, and legal experience. For almost 30 years, this expert has specialized in complex forensic accounting investigations, damages analysis, and expert testimony in federal and state courts, following earlier work managing independent financial audits of municipalities and electric utilities.
In addition to independent financial audit experience, this expert has performed several royalty audit engagements. More recently, this expert has served as an expert witness in significant IP licensing litigation matters involving royalty audits, film and TV profit participation audits, copyright matters, and IP licensing matters.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #282775
This earning capacity/damages expert is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner who holds Certification in Financial Forensics and Accreditation in Business Valuation.
This expert has specialized in forensic accounting and damages analysis for decades, providing advice and expert testimony on the calculation and valuation of damages, including lost business profits, lost earnings of individuals, fraud-related losses, and business valuations. This expert is also an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #286411
This estate valuation expert is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) whose valuation practice specializes in estate and gift valuation and litigation support.
This expert holds appraisal credentials including Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designations from national professional appraisal and accounting organizations. This expert has testified on numerous occasions in federal and state courts on valuation, economic, and accounting matters and has been appointed to serve as trustee, joint expert, and arbitrator.
This expert has presented continuing education for attorney and CPA groups and lectured on valuation issues.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #287087
This damages expert holds a BA (with Honors) in accounting from a university in London, England, and is a licensed certified public accountant in Pennsylvania, a chartered accountant (UK), a certified fraud examiner, and certified in financial forensics. This expert also attends courses offered by professional accounting, legal, fraud examination, and other professional organizations. This expert has presented various programs to the legal, accounting, and insurance industries on the calculation of damages in financial disputes and corporate fraud.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #290054
This tax and accounting expert is a certified public accountant licensed by a state board of accountancy and has completed a Core Forensic Accounting Certificate through a prominent professional accounting institute. Areas of focus include expert witness testimony, litigation consultation, fraud investigation, and business valuation. With over 25 years of professional experience, this expert worked for a public accounting firm with responsibilities including preparation of audited financial statements and individual and business tax returns. This expert later served in various controller and CFO roles in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, and construction industries.
This expert began a career in public accounting at a firm that blended audit and tax teams and has a number of years of tax preparation experience. In various roles outside of public accounting, this expert has been the primary liaison between organizations, business partners, and tax preparation firms.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #293388
This economic damages expert is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst who applies over 25 years of corporate finance, institutional investment management, and financial valuation experience to matters involving accounting, financial, and economic damages analyses. This expert holds a B.Sc. in accounting from a well-regarded university and an MBA from another well-regarded university.
This expert has built damages models across a broad range of cases, including those involving reputational harm and lost earnings. Long-term earnings impacts can be quantified using labor-market data and reputation-adjusted discounting, and damages can be scaled across a class by modeling average per-member losses. Restitution damages may also be tied to advertising revenue generated through online advertising platforms.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #294812
This damages expert is an experienced economic consultant and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who focuses on intellectual property-related valuation.
This expert specializes in evaluating monetary damages and other economic issues, providing critical economic insights in high-stakes engagements involving complex technologies and products, assets, and transactions. These engagements include breach of contract, trade secret, copyright, trademark, competition, standard essential patent (SEP), and fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing matters. This expert assists clients in a variety of other contexts, including IP portfolio and intangible asset valuation, IP licensing, lost profits, reasonable royalties, irreparable harm, commercial success, and prospective M&A.
This expert has been recognized as a leading practitioner in IP matters by a prominent patent-focused ranking, is a member of a professional IP organization, holds a Master of Accounting from a well-regarded university with High Distinction, and holds a B.S. in Management from another well-regarded university.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #296529
This IRS audit/tax controversy expert has over 25 years of experience as an IRS Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent and over 40 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant.
This expert is a former Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigation and has broad experience in forensic accounting, investigative services, and dispute services, including operating an independent practice. This expert is experienced in asset forfeiture and asset tracing, including recovery-related work, and has performed international investigations involving Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs), provisional arrest warrants, and overseas depositions.
This expert's expertise includes fraud, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and investigations. This expert is experienced in asset tracing, due diligence, insolvency opinions, investigation and testimony regarding piercing the corporate veil, bankruptcy-related investigations, state and federal tax controversy, tax opinions, white-collar defense, internal investigations, diversion schemes, damages and loss analysis, complex corporate class action disputes, and partner, shareholder, and family disputes.
This expert is a Certified Fraud Examiner and licensed private detective in Illinois. This expert is a member of professional accounting, fraud examination, federal criminal investigation, and former IRS special agent associations.
This expert has testified in federal and state court, arbitration, and deposition. This expert provides expert opinions and fact-based reports in high-value disputed matters. This expert's investigative experience includes corporate fraud; criminal tax; failed banks and savings and loans; bankruptcy, securities, foreign exchange, and mortgage fraud; Ponzi schemes; inflated billing schemes; sophisticated pension fraud schemes; healthcare fraud; identity theft; illegal immigration employment schemes; false claims; public corruption and bribery; investigations involving organized crime; and international and local drug conspiracies.
Start Certified Public Accountant Expert SearchExpert Witness #303131
This CPA and business valuation expert has over 35 years of experience in accounting, with expertise in accounting, taxation, litigation support, and fraud investigations.
Professional credentials include Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Forensic Accountant (CRFAC), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
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