Your clients’, the courts’, and the public’s expectations reach
far beyond your core expertise whether auditing, tax, business advice,
valuation, litigation, or any other service. Such expectations are no
surprise since forensic accounting is now a household term.
Media coverage of global economic crises, high-profile corporate
failures, institutional collapses, and other financial catastrophes have
conditioned the public to “think” that all CPAs, regulators, law
enforcement specialists, et al. possess scientific financial forensics
expertise. Consequently, the public, i.e., your clients, “think” and
expect that you will deliver all your professional services
from a foundation of forensic accounting.
Curiously, the accounting profession has reinforced such perceptions
despite failing to provide specific guidance in the form of tools and
techniques. Specifically, virtually every accounting periodical devotes
space to financial forensics, forensic accounting, and related subjects.
Further, all CPE providers offer various courses on the subject or some
derivative. Finally,
accounting graduates are increasingly attracted to firms offering such
services.
To date, the accounting profession has yet to offer a cogent,
comprehensive, financial forensics/forensic accounting methodology by
which accountants can guide and refine their forensic accounting craft.
Likewise, defending (both in and outside court) one’s core expertise
continues to be more challenging without independently codified
benchmarks within a formalized “body of knowledge.”
However, this program* changes it all . . . this intensive four-day (not
including night assignments) program is the only program of its kind
in the United States. It takes participants immediately into detail
and delivers specific forensic accounting tools and techniques that are
immediately applicable to virtually all aspects of the accounting
profession. The techniques are applicable to auditing, tax, valuation,
litigation, and fraud and virtually every aspect of CPA services. By
contrast, virtually every other program contains content too general and
too narrowly focused.
There are (at least) seven reasons why you
should devote the time and money to attend
this session:
• First, your core responsibilities (law enforcement, audit, prosecution,
tax, et al.) will be enhanced by the 200–300+ tools and techniques
taught during the class
• Second, your ancillary responsibility areas will be enhanced by the
200–300+ tools and techniques taught during the class
• Third, you will enhance your technical capabilities as
logical extensions of your expertise
• Fourth, you will possess a framework to train staff and
leverage your knowledge
• Fifth, you will receive actual report excerpts for future application
• Sixth, you will receive actual trial exhibits for future applications
• Seventh, you will be a part of redefining forensic accounting and
financial forensics.
Learning Objectives
This session is different from any other (alleged) forensic accounting session that you have ever read about or attended. Specifically, it
delivers 200–300+ practical, realistic, and immediately useable forensic accounting tools and techniques that you can apply in all aspects of your practice. Participants will gain two distinctive skill sets:
Second, training in the “Top 30” specific tools and techniques
to use in forensic accounting and related assignments, e.g.,
Full-and-False Inclusion, Genogram, Entity(s) Charts, Timeline
Analysis, Link Analysis, Item Listing, (Modified) Net Worth
Method, Source and Use of Cash Method, Proof-of-Cash
Method, Digital Analysis (e.g., Benford’s), CAGR, ANOVA,
Gap Analysis, AQI, TATA/TARTA, et al.
Also addressed will be: Attest (audit, review, compilation),
Credit Assessment,
Fraud (employee, financial statement misrepresentation,
corruption),
Internal Audit (operational and financial), Investing, Law
Enforcement,
Lending, Litigation/Damages including (partial listing: Alter
Ego, Audit/
Review/Compilation, Bankruptcy, Damages, Due Diligence,
Fraud–Civil
and Criminal, Fraudulent Transfer/Conveyance, Insurance Loss,
Intellectual
Property, Lost Profits, Marital Dissolution, Shareholder
Disputes, Solvency/
Insolvency, Tax Returns, Valuation Focusing on Normalizations,
Management
Effectiveness, Guidelines), Performance Auditing, Portfolio
Analysis,
Portfolio, Taxation (compliance and planning), Valuation (fair
value, fair
market value)
Day 1—Our Forensic Accounting Legacy—Context and Rationale: Differentiate and
Demonstrate Forensic Accounting Mind Set
Day 4—Introductory and Intermediate
Techniques: Executing Critical Forensic
Techniques
Statistical Analysis including:
Central Limit Theorem, Law of Large
Numbers, Gaussian Distribution/Randomness, Hypothesis Testing,
the Law
of Errors, Variance Measurements, Probabilities, Bayesian
Theory, Gott’s
Principle, Pascal’s Triangle, Isomorphisms, and Sampling; Begin
Written
Report including: “Results Visualization/WPN, Report Card”
Concept—
Indicia; Badges, et al.; Empirical Forensic Tests including:
Accrual Delta,
AQI, Ball and Brown, Beniesh, CRO, Dechow-Dichev, Lev-Thiagarajan,
LI,
SGAI, TATA/CATA/TARTA/TITA/TDTA/TLTA/TCLTA, et al.
Development and Instruction Team
The CPAs, attorneys, academics,
and law enforcement professionals (below)
who have designed and instructed this course are exceptionally
well qualified
in virtually all aspects of financial disciplines. Their
knowledge transfer
provides an unmatched opportunity to glean leading-edge
techniques from
their deep expertise.
Thomas F. Burrage CPA/ABV, CVA, DABFA: Burrage & Johnson,
CPA’s, LLC, Albuquerque, NM; Darrell D. Dorrell, CPA/ABV, MBA,
CVA, ASA, CMA, DABFA: financialforensics®, Lake Oswego, OR; John
(Jay) W. Dunbar CPA, CVA: John W. Dunbar CPA, El Paso, TX; Joe
Epps,
CPA/CFF/ABV, CFE, CVA: Epps CPA Consulting PLLC, Scottsdale, AZ;
Gregory A. Gadawski, CPA/ABV, CVA, CFE: financialforensics®,
Lake
Oswego, OR; Odalys Z. Lara, CPA, CVA, CFFA, CFD: Perzel & Lara
Forensic CPA’s, P.A., Clearwater, FL; R. Miles Mason, Sr., JD,
CPA: Miles
Mason Family Law Group, LLC, Memphis, TN; Dr. Diane A. Matthews,
CPA, CFE: Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA; Patricia A. Perzel,
CPA, CVA,
CFFA, CFD (Progenitor): Perzel & Lara Forensic CPA’s, P.A.,
Clearwater,
FL; Gabriel H. Shurek, Manager: Gettry Marcus Stern & Lehrer,
CPA, P.C.,
Woodbury, NY; Mark S. Warshavsky, CPA/ABV, MBA, CVA, CBA, CFE,
DABFA, CFFA: Gettry Marcus Stern & Lehrer, CPA, P.C., Woodbury,
NY.
Who Should Attend
Attendees (alphabetical) can be: Attorneys, auditors, bankers, CEOs, CFOs, corporate counsel, CPAs, credit analysts, economists, expert witnesses, fiduciaries, financial analysts, insurance claims adjustors, investigators, investment bankers, investors, judges, law enforcement, lenders, stock and market analysts, turnaround specialists, and others.
Attendees are encouraged to be: Medium to heavily experienced
professionals; those who are new to the discipline are not encouraged to attend.
Package Pricing (Before early
registration discounts.)...........Non-Member.............Member
Individual
Days..........................................................$550......................$495
Four
Days of
Training......................................................$2,200..................$1,980
CFFA
Certification
Exam..........................................................$395......................$395
First-Year
NACVA Membership
with Training and
Exam..................................$300
Register Now
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Registration Form, scan, and e-mail to nacva1@nacva.com or call Member Services: (800) 677-2009.
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to print and fax (PDF).
Cancellation Policy
For more information regarding refund, complaint, and/or program
cancellation policies, please call our director of Member
Services: (801) 486-0600.
CPE Hours
Delivery Method
Group-Live
Program Level
Intermediate
Advanced
Preparation
There will be some advanced preparation work with this
course.
For more information regarding CPE, Program Levels and Fields
of Study please
click here.
NASBA Sponsorship
The Consultants’ Training Institute (CTI) is registered with the
National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a
sponsor of continuing professional education on the National
Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final
authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE
credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be
submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its
website: www.learningmarket.org.