Financial Forensics Clinics
Co-Sponsored by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts®
Deep Dives into the Leading Financial Forensic Areas of Practice
Unlike most financial forensics training that tends to be general in scope, these programs are a deep dive into methodologies, approaches, investigative techniques, communication skills, and practice building strategies that are being employed by successful and emerging financial forensics analysts.
- Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Restructuring
- Business Valuation in Litigation
- Business and Intellectual Property Damages
- Business Interruptions and Lost Profits
- Commercial Damages and Lost Profits
- Cybersecurity: Analysis, Risks, and Actions
- Financial Forecasting and Modeling
- Matrimonial Litigation
- Personal Injury
- Wrongful Death
A Certificate of Educational Achievement (CEA) will be awarded to course attendees for each Financial Forensics Clinics who successfully complete and pass a short quiz administered at the conclusion of each day.
Financial Expertise in Crisis: A Masterclass in Litigation, Valuation, and Bankruptcy Advisory Services
Navigating financial distress, legal disputes, and complex bankruptcy proceedings requires a rare blend of valuation acumen, investigative skill, and litigation-ready analysis. The comprehensive five-part training series delivers the full spectrum of technical knowledge and strategic insight required by professionals working in high-stakes financial environments.
Drawing on five expert-led modules, each which stands on its own, this course provides participants with a step-by-step roadmap for delivering services to distressed businesses, supporting reorganization efforts, investigating fraud, pursuing recovery actions, and performing litigation-based valuations—all within the framework of current bankruptcy law, valuation standards, and evidentiary requirements.
How You will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of financial experts during all stages of bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings
- Recognize indicators of fraud—including embezzlement, insider trading, and financial statement manipulation—and the forensic tools used to investigate them
- Analyze the requirements for confirming a Chapter 11 plan, including feasibility, classification of claims, and plan impairment
- Determine whether a pre-bankruptcy transfer meets the legal criteria for avoidance under Bankruptcy Code §547 (preferences) or §548 (fraudulent transfers)
- Select the appropriate solvency test—balance sheet, capital adequacy, or cash flow—for a given legal or financial scenario
- Differentiate between ordinary and improper corporate structures using alter ego principles and veil-piercing indicators
- Identify the legal and evidentiary standards for expert testimony in bankruptcy and financial litigation
- Analyze financial forecasts and projections to assess plan viability or capital sufficiency in distressed businesses
- Determine when retrojection, extrapolation, or forensic reconstruction is needed due to gaps in financial data
- Recognize how to structure and support reorganization plans with appropriate financial disclosures and valuation evidence
- Select and apply valuation methods that align with litigation objectives, bankruptcy code definitions, and fair market value principles
- Differentiate between GAAP-based financial reporting and the adjustments required for insolvency or fraud analyses
What You Will Cover
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Part 2: Fraud, Financial Forensics, and Special Investigations
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Part 3: What is Required by the Court for Reorganization
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| April 27–May 1, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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| October 5–9, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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Non-Members $1,160; Members $1,044 | 15 Hours CPE
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Price: $1,116/$1,018 Members Purchase the Self-Study here. This course qualifies for NASBA QAS Self-Study credit. Purchasers also receive a copy of Bankruptcy and Insolvency Accounting, Volume 1: Practice and Procedure by Grant W. Newton with free domestic shipping. |
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In today’s complex legal landscape, business valuation professionals must be more than technical analysts—they must be expert communicators, strategic thinkers, and skilled collaborators in the litigation process. This program provides the most complete training available for valuation professionals who engage in legal disputes, expert testimony, or litigation support.
Across this robust curriculum, you will learn how to construct defensible valuation reports, apply the correct standards and premises of value in diverse legal contexts, and challenge the credibility of opposing experts. Each module integrates real-world case studies, accepted valuation frameworks, and litigation-tested strategies to ensure you are ready for the courtroom or mediation table.
You will be trained in how to assess tax-related valuation issues, including the impact of IRC §6662 penalties, how and when to apply tax-affecting, and how to support conclusions involving goodwill, loss carryforwards, and subsequent events. The series also prepares you to face unqualified opposing experts head-on—whether their reports are flawed, unsupported, or in violation of recognized valuation standards.
From divorce to bankruptcy, shareholder litigation to fraud investigations, this course empowers you to deliver high-quality, court-ready valuation opinions that meet the highest professional and legal standards. Ideal for valuation analysts, financial experts, and forensic accountants, this course is a must for professionals involved in litigation support services.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the legal and professional standards that govern expert valuation reports in litigation
- Determine the appropriate standard and premise of value for specific legal contexts such as divorce, shareholder disputes, and bankruptcy
- Analyze opposing expert reports for credibility gaps, methodological errors, and unsupported assumptions
- Recognize when an expert’s failure to follow standards promulgated by NACVA, USPAP, SSVS1, or Revenue Ruling 59-60 may disqualify their opinion
- Select appropriate models and methods for tax-affecting pass-through entities based on case-specific factors
- Differentiate between enterprise and personal goodwill in litigation valuations and explain their tax implications
- Interpret how best to assist legal counsel in developing effective cross-examination strategies and motions in limine
- Assess the application of IRC §6662 accuracy-related penalties in the context of valuation errors or misstatements
- Evaluate when and how to incorporate foreign-sourced income, loss carryforwards, and subsequent events in a valuation
- Explain the litigation risks posed by opposing experts without credentials or adherence to valuation standards
- Integrate persuasive and litigation-appropriate reporting structures to enhance the clarity, credibility, and admissibility of your valuation work
What You Will Cover
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Part 2: Standards and Premises of Value in Dissenting Shareholder, Bankruptcy, and Divorce Litigation
Part 3: Reviewing and Challenging the Opposing Expert’s Report—Developing Effective Cross-Examination Strategies
Part 4: Opposing Experts Without Standards—What to Expect and How to Challenge Them
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| April 20–24, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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In today’s economy, intellectual property (IP) has surpassed tangible assets in both significance and value. As intangible assets continue to dominate global markets, legal disputes over infringement and economic damages have become increasingly complex. Business and IP damages offers a complete, in-depth framework for professionals who deal with the assessment, quantification, and defense of IP-related damages determinations in litigation regardless of which side they are on.
This comprehensive course consists of five specialized modules:
- Advanced Concepts for Lost Profits Calculations
- Special Considerations for Lost Profits Calculations
- Patent Damages and Lost Profits
- Royalty Damages Determinations
- Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets Damages
Each course module is designed to build on foundational valuation and forensic skills while integrating legal precedent, economic modeling, and real-world application. The curriculum is essential for valuation analysts, litigation support professionals, forensic accountants, and IP attorneys who need to determine and support damage claims, critique opposing expert opinions, or testify in court.
Whether you are evaluating misappropriated trade secrets, quantifying the value of a violated patent license, or testifying about the financial harm caused by trademark confusion, this series will elevate your expertise to the highest level of professional confidence and capabilities.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the statutory frameworks and legal standards governing damages for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets
- Recognize when to apply lost profits, reasonable royalty, unjust enrichment, or statutory damages in IP-related cases
- Determine the appropriate methodology for estimating lost profits, including before-and-after, yardstick, and market projection models
- Analyze the impact of assumptions, data reliability, and causation in complex damages models
- Differentiate between economic remedies across IP types, including differences in available damages and evidentiary thresholds
- Explain how the Georgia-Pacific factors are applied in hypothetical royalty negotiations for both patent and trademark disputes
- Select appropriate valuation approaches (income, market, cost) for different types of economic damages analyses
- Identify and avoid common pitfalls in damage testimony, including double-counting, speculative projections, and flawed apportionment
- Calculate and quantify damages for early-stage companies or those with limited financial history
- Demonstrate damage calculations that will withstand Daubert and expert challenges
- Apply apportionment in unjust enrichment claims and the role of the burden of proof
- Determine how to support or critique IP damages claims using real-world data, licensing behavior, and litigation-tested methods
Whether you are a seasoned expert witness or building your specialization in IP litigation, this course equips you with the tools, judgment, and credibility to lead in one of the most technical and high-stakes areas of financial forensics.
What You Will Cover
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Part 2: Special Considerations for Lost Profits Calculations
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Part 3: Patent Damages and Lost Profits
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Part 4: Royalty Damages
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Part 5: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets Damages
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| June 15–19, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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5/31/2026 | ||
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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Spanning five expertly structured modules, this advanced training program is designed for forensic accountants, valuation experts, insurance consultants, litigation support professionals, and CPAs involved in damage quantification. The series not only covers the technical underpinnings of BI and EE calculations, but also offers deep insight into real-world application, documentation expectations, litigation challenges, and emerging areas of opportunity.
Each segment builds on the last, progressing from engagement planning to calculation methods, restoration period analysis, policy language, and finally, identification of BI claim opportunities across different industries and risk categories. Whether the disruption stems from fire, flooding, ransomware, hailstorms, or tornados, professionals emerge from this series with the skills and insight necessary to construct well-documented, credible, and defensible loss calculations.
Each module includes real-world case studies, policy analysis, and sample calculations to help attendees translate theory into practice. By mastering both the foundational principles and specialized scenarios, professionals can confidently provide high-value BI support in today’s volatile and risk-sensitive business environment.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the communication, documentation, and compliance steps required when initiating a business interruption engagement
- Interpret the key insurance policy terms that define and limit business interruption and extra expense coverage
- Explain the importance of waiting periods, restoration triggers, and extended indemnity clauses in shaping BI loss periods
- Analyze the start and end of the Period of Restoration and how it relates to operational resumption and insurance payouts
- Differentiate between bottom-up and top-down approaches for calculating business interruption losses
- Evaluate which expenses qualify as extra, excess, continuing, or non-continuing during the Period of Restoration
- Explain and justify the data sources and forecasting methods used to reconstruct lost sales, profits, and production levels
- Illustrate how poor documentation, missing records, and language barriers affect claim defensibility and value
- Select the appropriate calculation method based on business complexity, shutdown duration, and available data
- Distinguish high-risk regions, industries, and seasons that present recurring business interruption claim opportunities
- Differentiate between storm-related and non-storm-related BI events and their respective coverage challenges
- Determine the appropriate expert role in non-litigated versus litigated claims, including report preparation and testimony
Who Should Attend
- Forensic accountants and CPAs
- Business valuation professionals
- Insurance consultants and expert witnesses
- Attorneys working in insurance, civil litigation, or commercial loss
- Public adjusters and risk managers
- Professionals seeking to add litigation support services to their practice
This course will leave you with not only the technical ability to perform defensible BI loss analyses. but the strategic insight to anticipate, identify, and serve clients in one of the most complex and necessary areas of financial forensics.
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Part 2: Common Business Interruption/Extra Expense Coverage Terms
Part 3: Period of Restoration and Damage Calculation Theory
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Part 4: Types of Business Interruption Calculations
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Part 5: Business Interruption Claim Opportunities
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| February 23–27, 2026 | 1:00–3:00 p.m. ET |
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1/31/2026 | ||
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CPE: 14 Hrs |
Price: $745/$679 Members Purchase the Self-Study Course here. This course qualifies for NASBA QAS Self-Study credit. |
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In today’s complex business environment, disputes involving commercial damages and lost profits have become increasingly common—and increasingly sophisticated. Whether the result of a contract breach, business interruption, misrepresentation, or unfair competition, these disputes demand a careful, well-reasoned, and industry-appropriate analysis from financial and valuation professionals. This program delivers the full spectrum of knowledge required to navigate these high-stakes assignments with confidence and clarity.
This course is designed for valuation analysts, forensic accountants, financial experts, and litigation support professionals who are engaged in measuring economic harm, quantifying financial damages, and presenting defensible lost profits calculations in litigation and dispute contexts. From foundational theory to advanced application, this in-depth series explores both the art and science of lost profits analysis; bridging legal principles, accounting methodology, economic modeling, and industry-specific considerations.
This comprehensive learning journey not only equips experts with the technical knowledge to perform accurate lost profits analyses, but also gives them the communication tools, industry insight, and legal context needed to deliver expert opinions that stand up to scrutiny. This course is ideal for anyone serving as an expert in business litigation, including those working in valuation, accounting, financial analysis, consulting, or legal support roles. It is also invaluable for professionals preparing to testify as expert witnesses or those tasked with reviewing the work of opposing experts.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Select the appropriate damages model based on case facts and legal context
- Identify the key financial metrics and benchmarks relevant to various industries
- Recognize the legal standards of reasonable certainty, proximate cause, and foreseeability
- Determine the appropriate recovery period for a lost profits claim based on market and operational realities
- Analyze historical financial data to establish reliable but-for scenarios
- Explain the differences between yardstick, before-and-after, and projection methods
- Assess assumptions that require testing through sensitivity or scenario analysis
- Distinguish when and how to adjust models for mitigation efforts or business interruptions
- Differentiate between recurring and nonrecurring revenues in complex business structures
- Critique or defend expert reports in adversarial litigation
- Evaluate the implications of industry-specific risks and regulatory constraints on damages calculations
- Determine when advanced modeling techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation or probabilistic forecasting, are appropriate and how to implement them
What You Will Cover
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Day 2: Calculations for Recovery of Lost Profits Damages
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| May 4–8, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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Organizations of every size, structure, and industry face the ongoing risk of fraud. Whether initiated by employees, managers, executives, vendors, or external actors who exploit internal weaknesses, fraud often develops slowly, quietly, and strategically. By the time direct financial loss becomes apparent, the damage is usually much deeper; affecting trust, decision quality, financial reporting integrity, and organizational culture. For professionals responsible for financial stewardship, the ability to understand, investigate, and prevent fraud is no longer optional; it is an essential professional capability.
The Conducting Fraud Investigations series is a comprehensive training experience that prepares professionals to detect fraud early, investigate thoroughly, and support defensible outcomes in disciplinary, regulatory, and legal settings.
Across all five sessions, the series reinforces a foundational principle: the credibility of the investigator is the cornerstone of the investigative process. Fraud investigators must be objective, analytical, thorough, ethically grounded, and capable of explaining their findings in clear and supportable terms. The program provides tools to build that credibility through disciplined methodology, documentation rigor, structured evidence evaluation, and adherence to professional standards in both investigative work and testimony.
This program prepares professionals to act confidently and professionally when fraud is suspected; equipping them to protect organizational integrity, demonstrate investigative competency, and support just and effective outcomes.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify key forms of occupational fraud and their organizational impact
- Recognize behavioral, structural, and accounting red flags associated with fraud risk
- Analyze how organizational culture and internal controls influence fraud vulnerability
- Assess appropriate steps for scoping and initiating a fraud investigation
- Select investigative team members and external resources based on independence and qualifications
- Explain how to gather, preserve, and document evidence in a legally defensible manner
- Evaluate transaction flows and financial data to detect and investigate asset misappropriation
- Differentiate corruption schemes from legitimate business relationships and transactions
- Define common methods used to manipulate financial statements and conceal performance issues
- Summarize how to reconstruct and quantify losses resulting from fraud schemes
- Describe how reporting structure, language, and documentation affect credibility and admissibility
- Determine how to prepare for and respond effectively during deposition and courtroom testimony
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Part 2: Beginning the Fraud Investigation
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| February 2–6, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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Participants will explore how to uncover, preserve, analyze, and interpret financial and digital data in a range of cybercrime scenarios. Whether you are investigating ransomware, tracing digital assets, calculating the economic loss of a data breach, or responding to a statutory claim tied to financial privacy, this series empowers you to approach each engagement with precision, legal awareness, and evidentiary integrity.
What This Series Offers:
This course series delivers both breadth and depth. It spans critical areas of contemporary litigation—from breach response and regulatory failure to insider fraud, statutory enforcement, and data forensics—ensuring that participants leave with the skills to:
- Quantify losses that extend beyond the immediate financial transaction;
- Deliver reports that satisfy both technical standards and legal scrutiny;
- Work confidently across engagements involving digital misconduct, compliance failure, or asset misappropriation.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify key statutory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, CFAA, and GLBA that influence financial and digital risk exposure
- Recognize common cybercrime tactics (e.g., BEC, ransomware, spoofing, pretexting) and how they impact financial engagements
- Determine the valuation consequences of data breaches, including regulatory fines, reputational harm, and lost customer value
- Analyze forensic evidence using structured tools and processes to support valuation or litigation claims
- Explain the relationship between breach events and business valuation, including adjustments for risk premiums and impairment
- Differentiate between legally obtained and inadmissible digital evidence in the context of state and federal law
- Select appropriate methods for documenting chain of custody and validating forensic soundness of digital images
- Describe the investigative lifecycle and reporting standards required to create credible expert witness documentation
- Assess how regulatory violations, like data misuse or noncompliance, can create statutory liability and valuation loss
- Determine the tax-related implications of litigation outcomes, including net operating losses, compensation issues, and pass-through tax effects
- Demonstrate how opportunity costs, remediation expenses, and data exposure penalties factor into loss modeling
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Describe how cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, HIPAA, etc.) align with risk management best practices in financial contexts
Part 1: Valuation Pre and Post GDPR with Cybersecurity Case Studies
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Part 2: Valuing Loss in Cyber Scam Engagements: BEC, Ransomware, and Investment Scams
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Part 3: How to Use Cybersecurity Frameworks in your Financial Practice
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Part 4: Valuing Loss in Cybercrime Engagements with Statutory Damage Claims
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Part 5: The Use of Digital Forensics in Financial Litigation
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| March 16–20, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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2/28/2026 | ||
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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Business valuation, litigation support, forecasting, and fraud detection all demand precision, objectivity, and accountability. Professionals who rely on guesswork, templates, or historical norms without statistical rigor, are increasingly at risk of producing flawed conclusions; conclusions that cannot stand up to regulatory scrutiny, judicial inquiry, or peer review.
This course teaches attendees not just how to calculate, but how to think analytically. You will learn to apply mathematical tools not in isolation, but within a logical framework that accounts for uncertainty, variability, data integrity, and operational context. Participants will leave with a toolkit that enhances their technical credibility, improves the quality of their forecasts and models, and supports the production of defensible, audit-ready work products.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the critical distinctions between descriptive, inferential, and predictive analytics in financial modeling
- Analyze the structure of integrated financial forecasts, including key ratios, growth assumptions, and error metrics
- Determine the appropriate forecasting technique—time-series, causal, or judgmental—based on the nature of the data
- Explain how Benford’s law is applied to detect anomalies in transactional datasets and how to interpret digit frequency patterns
- Recognize when a dataset does not conform to Benford expectations due to structural limitations or data manipulation
- Differentiate between statistical and practical significance when evaluating regression model outputs
- Select the appropriate statistical tools for validating assumptions and testing hypotheses within a regression framework
- Distinguish common spreadsheet modeling errors and explain how modular design enhances model transparency and reliability
- Evaluate how measures of central tendency and variability influence the interpretation of financial and operational data
- Detect and avoid statistical fallacies such as the Flaw of Averages, fictitious precision, and improper sampling
- Determine the validity of sample-based conclusions and explain the risks of non-random or biased data selection
- Explain how to use statistical logic, cross-validation, and residual analysis to confirm the integrity of predictive models
Day 1: Statistical Concepts and Analyses for Financial Forensics
Day 2: Financial Modeling in Financial Forensics
Day 3: Using Regression Analysis in Financial Forensics
Day 4: Financial Forecasting in Financial Forensics
Day 5: Applying Benford’s Law in Financial Forensics
Who Should Attend
Any analyst preparing prospective forecast models for start-up, capital budgeting, merger-acquisition, business valuation, or prospective financial damages (individual or commercial).
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CPE: 10 Hrs |
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Navigating the financial complexities of divorce litigation demands more than technical expertise—it requires multidisciplinary fluency in forensic accounting, valuation, taxation, legal standards, and strategic reporting. This comprehensive program is designed to equip financial experts with the knowledge, tools, and strategies necessary to support family law attorneys and their clients through every phase of matrimonial disputes. This series covers five core competencies: fundamentals of service provision, forensic accounting techniques in matrimonial cases, organizing work and reporting findings, business and asset valuation in divorce, and tax implications under modern law. Each module focuses on real-world application, integrating legal context with financial acumen to prepare professionals for the nuanced demands of high-stakes family litigation.
Together, these courses give participants the technical skillset, legal awareness, and strategic mindset required to serve as highly effective financial experts in matrimonial litigation. From the moment you are engaged through to testimony or mediation, you will be equipped to deliver clear, defensible, and impactful analysis that helps courts and clients reach equitable, informed outcomes.
Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or expanding your services into matrimonial work, this training series ensures you are fully prepared to operate with confidence, integrity, and authority in one of the most emotionally charged and technically demanding areas of financial forensics.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the distinct roles financial experts play in matrimonial litigation, including consulting and testifying expert positions
- Assess the legal framework that governs property division, support awards, and tax implications across jurisdictions
- Determine the appropriate valuation method—asset, income, or market—based on the asset type and legal context
- Analyze complex compensation structures and business financials to determine accurate income for support calculations
- Differentiate between separate and marital property using source tracing, commingling analysis, and transmutation review
- Explain how changes introduced by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) affect alimony, child tax credits, and asset transfers
- Select the correct standard of value (e.g., FMV, investment value) for the purposes of equitable distribution
- Recognize red flags indicating unreported income, hidden assets, or misclassified expenditures through forensic techniques
- Distinguish when and how to apply lifestyle analysis in support of alimony or child support assessments
- Describe the proper structuring of QDROs and IRA transfers to avoid tax penalties and ensure legal compliance
- Associate the components and clarity of a well-organized expert report suitable for court, mediation, or arbitration
- Evaluate between taxable interest and tax-free principal in deferred payout agreements and property settlements
Part 1: Fundamentals of Matrimonial Litigation and How We Provide Services
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Part 2: Forensic Accounting in Matrimonial Cases
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Part 3: Organizing Your Work and Reporting Your Findings
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Part 4: Valuation Issues in Matrimonial Engagements
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Part 5: Divorce Taxation
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| June 8–12, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET |
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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Designed for forensic accountants, CPAs, litigation support professionals, economists, and valuation analysts, this course series is a practical and authoritative roadmap for navigating even the most complex damages cases. It provides a working toolkit for experts tasked with generating comprehensive, transparent, and legally defensible reports. Whether you are a seasoned expert or entering the field of forensic financial analysis, this course will elevate your ability to deliver reliable economic opinions in litigation.
How You'll Benefit
After completing the course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the legal precedents and evidentiary rules that govern expert testimony in personal injury cases
- Recognize the ethical obligations of financial experts when providing litigation support
- Determine the appropriate life and work-life expectancy models for various demographic and occupational profiles
- Analyze the financial impact of mitigating factors such as incarceration, disability, and employment history
- Describe how to construct a but-for earnings model using tax forms, pay stubs, and industry data
- Select valid sources for quantifying employer-paid benefits and replacement job benefits
- Differentiate between various tax treatments for damages across state and federal jurisdictions
- Evaluate acceptable methodologies for discounting future losses to present value
- Explain how to extract and apply reliable data from life care plans to model future medical expenses
- Determine the economic value of lost household services using ATUS and DVD models in expert reports, and how to defend against methodological challenges
- Demonstrate the importance of transparency, documentation, and jurisdictional customization in damages reporting
Part 4: Calculating Personal: Mitigating Earnings/Tax Rates
Part 5: Calculating Personal Injury: Lost Future Medical/Household Services
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| August 3–7, 2026 |
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Wrongful death litigation presents a complex intersection of law, economics, and financial modeling—where precision, defensibility, and adherence to legal standards are not optional but required. This in-depth training series is designed to equip professionals with a complete set of tools for calculating economic damages in wrongful death cases and builds a robust foundation for accurately identifying, documenting, modeling, and defending the full range of economic losses incurred by survivors after the death of a wage earner, caregiver, or dependent contributor to household services. Each course in this series integrates core forensic economic principles with real-world case examples, court-tested methodologies, and practical guidance for litigation-ready damage reports.
Integrated Course Benefits
Together, these five courses offer a cohesive, comprehensive education that prepares professionals to produce well-documented, admissible, and persuasive economic damages reports for wrongful death cases. From admissibility standards and ethical compliance to detailed projections of earnings, taxes, services, and support, this program delivers the expertise necessary to support or challenge expert testimony with authority.
Participants will learn to handle a variety of case types, ranging from wage earners with complex compensation structures to full-time homemakers, retirees, and self-employed individuals. Real-world examples and scenario modeling help bridge the gap between theory and practice, ensuring that professionals can confidently apply course concepts in litigation or settlement contexts.
This course will open practice growth opportunities that are currently being capitalized on by very few because there is little competition in this field. In addition, the course will equip you with the essential tools and knowledge to excel in calculating damages in wrongful death cases. Enroll in our Financial Forensics Clinics today and become a trusted expert in wrongful death litigation support!
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the legal standards and evidentiary requirements governing expert witness testimony in wrongful death litigation
- Recognize the differences between personal injury and wrongful death economic damages, and how survivor-based losses are calculated
- Explain how to estimate life and work-life expectancy using sum-certain and probabilistic methods like the LPE model
- Determine appropriate earnings baselines using documentation such as W-2s, pay stubs, 1040s, and third-party benchmarks
- Define how to adjust income projections for taxes, fringe benefits, self-employment variability, and unreported income
- Differentiate between methods for valuing household services, including input, output, actual cost, and hybrid approaches
- Evaluate the role and methodology of the Dollar Value of a Day (DVD) and American Time Use Survey (ATUS) datasets in modeling non-wage contributions
- Assess how to quantify and deduct personal consumption from lost earnings to arrive at net economic loss
- Analyze the proper tax treatment of damage awards and the legal precedent governing net-of-tax calculations in federal and state courts
- Select appropriate discounting methods for future losses and apply present value calculations using defensible economic data
- Distinguish when and how to customize household service valuations based on family structure, geography, and survivor interviews
- Associate distinctions between statutory requirements and generally accepted practices across states when valuing damages components
Who Should Attend
This integrated course is ideal for professionals involved in financial forensics, litigation support, business valuation, or expert testimony. Whether you're preparing expert reports or reviewing opposing expert opinions, the knowledge and tools gained from this course will elevate your capacity to deliver credible, accurate, and defensible damage calculations in wrongful death cases.
What You Will Cover
Part 1: Foundation of Expert Witness Testimony in Wrongful Death
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Part 2: Calculating Damages in Wrongful Death Litigation—Understanding the Legal and Case Context and Estimating Life and Worklife Expectancy
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Part 3: Calculating Lost Economic Support in Wrongful Death Litigation
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Part 4: Calculating Benefits, Personal Consumption, Taxes, and Discounting Future Losses to Present Value in Wrongful Death Litigation
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Part 5: Calculating Lost Household Services in Wrongful Death Litigation
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| September 21–25, 2026 |
11:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. ET |
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
Price: $986/$888 Members Purchase the Self-Study Course here. This course qualifies for NASBA QAS Self-Study credit. |
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