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
- 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.
In the field of financial forensics, bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring are where all the action is because the business world is experiencing its most challenging times in decades. The fallout is more bankruptcies, forced reorganizations, and unfortunate insolvencies.
In this course, you will learn the essential knowledge and skills to thrive in this specialized area of financial forensics and become a valuable and needed resource advising attorneys and businesses on the best pathways forward in the complex realms of bankruptcy, reorganization, and insolvency with our Financial Forensics Clinic. This clinic, the only one of its kind in the U.S., offers a comprehensive training to the critical aspects of financial forensics in these specialized areas.
Key features of the clinic include:
- Corporate Bankruptcy Laws and Regulations: Gain a solid understanding of the legal framework and administrative procedures governing corporate bankruptcy.
- Reorganization and Insolvency: Learn the fundamentals of reorganization processes and insolvency, including strategic approaches and best practices.
- Forensic Financial Analysis: Develop expertise in conducting detailed financial analyses, identifying fraudulent activities, and uncovering financial mismanagement.
- Litigation Environment: Explore the intricacies of the litigation process related to financial forensics and understand how to present findings effectively in a legal context.
This clinic is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in financial forensics. Whether you're new to the field or looking to deepen your expertise, join us for an in-depth exploration of bankruptcy, reorganization, and insolvency.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Differentiate the specific valuation standards, approaches, methods, and issues relating to distressed and/or restructured businesses and related litigation
- Select the financial and regulatory reporting issues regarding distressed businesses
- Identify the accounting issues that arise before, during, and after reorganization, including “fresh start” accounting
What You Will Cover
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
Part 2: Fraud, Financial Forensics, and Special Investigations
Part 3: What is Required by the Court for Reorganization
Part 4: Bankruptcy Avoidance, Reclamation, and Recovery Actions
Part 5: Solvency and Insolvency Testing
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| October 6–10, 2025 | 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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This must have training is for every business valuator. That’s because most valuation work is performed at the behest of an attorney and that usually means there is potential for litigation or litigation is already in the works. This course is designed to prepare you for the inevitable and put you in a place where you can be a valuable resource for the attorney providing him/her counsel, not the other way around. To be at the top of your game, you need to attend Business Valuation in Litigation and are selling yourself short if you don’t. This course will unquestionably enhance your expertise and put you in the driver’s seat when it comes to merging your business valuation skills within the litigation context after attending the cornerstone course in NACVA’s premiere Financial Forensics Clinic series. This Clinic addresses the critical dynamics and challenges faced by professionals in this specialized field.
Key topics covered in the Clinic include:
- Business Valuation Conclusions and Calculations: Understand the nuances of reaching accurate and defensible valuation Conclusions or Calculations and which is most appropriate in which situations and how do they play in a litigation scenario.
- Controlling the Professional Standards Discussion: Stay up to date with the latest professional standards governing business valuation in litigation.
- Notable Case Law: Examine significant case law that shapes and influences business valuation practices in the legal arena.
- Differing Approaches to Reporting in Litigation: Explore various reporting methods and their appropriateness for different litigation contexts.
- Traditional and Situation-Specific Standards of Value: Learn how to apply both traditional and specific standards of value to meet the unique needs of each case.
- Key Issues Impacting business valuations in Litigation: Delve into critical issues that can affect business valuation outcomes in litigation.
Join us for this comprehensive Clinic and gain the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in this most needed and profitable side of the business valuation discipline. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, this Clinic offers valuable insights and practical guidance from seasoned pros in this field that without question, will enhance your practice.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Describe standards of value and approaches peculiar to shareholder disputes and other related litigation-based valuations
- Identify legal concepts relating to business valuation in professional engagements
What You Will Cover
Individual Part Details
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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Business damages and even more so, Intellectual Property (IP) Infringement damages are undoubtedly some of the most difficult types of damages to quantify and even more difficult to prove. But for those that master the techniques required to be successful in this endeavor, they thrive and are in very high demand because so few excel in this field. If you want to add rocket fuel to your career, this course is exactly what you want. Taught by the industry’s brightest minds and likely its most successful practitioners, you will learn everything you need to know to ramp up your practice in this most lucrative area of financial forensics. Here you will learn to navigate the complex world of business and intellectual property infringement damages, our capstone course in NACVA’s Financial Forensics Clinic series. This clinic provides an in-depth exploration of the legal foundations, methodologies, and best practices essential for professionals to succeed in this field.
Key topics covered include:
- Legal Foundations: Gain a thorough understanding of the legal principles governing business damages and IP infringement, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights.
- Methodologies: Learn the most effective methodologies for assessing and calculating business damages and IP infringement claims.
- Best Practices: Discover best practices for conducting forensic analyses, presenting findings, and ensuring compliance with professional standards.
- Current Trends: Learn about the latest trends and developments in this field, helping you to secure your place at the forefront of the industry.
Join us for this comprehensive clinic to enhance your skills and knowledge in business and IP infringement damages and propel your career to new heights. Whether you are an experienced professional or looking to specialize in this area, this clinic offers valuable insights and practical guidance guaranteed to advance your career.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Differentiate between the similarities and differences in utility patent, design patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets damages
- Select valuation concepts to intellectual property damages
- Identify the basic components to address in an intellectual property damages expert report
What You Will Cover
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
Part 2: Special Considerations for Lost Profits Calculations
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
Part 3: Patent Damages and Lost Profits
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
Part 4: Royalty Damages
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
Part 5: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets Damages
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
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- Foundations and Fundamentals: Understand the core principles underlying business income and extra expense damages.
- Alternative Approaches and Methodologies: Learn various approaches and methodologies to accurately assess and calculate business damages.
- Notable Insurance Policy Sections: Familiarize yourself with key insurance policy sections relevant to business income and extra expense claims.
- Foundational Evidence and Research Sources: Discover essential evidence and research sources to support your assessments and findings.
- Reporting Guidelines and Strategies: Explore effective reporting guidelines and strategies used by leading business damages experts to ensure clarity, credibility, compliance, and positive results.
- Identify how the policy will impact the policyholder during the damage period
- Interpret relevant business interruption policy language
- Construct top down and bottom up damage calculations
- Distinguish the differences between the two methods of business interruption calculations
- Identify common business interruption opportunities
Individual Part Details
Part 2: Common Business Interruption/Extra Expense Coverage Terms
Part 3: Period of Restoration and Damage Calculation Theory
Individual Part Details
Part 4: Types of Business Interruption Calculations
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Part 5: Business Interruption Claim Opportunities
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CPE: 14 Hrs |
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Unlock the secrets of success in a career in the thriving field of commercial damages and lost profits with NACVA’s cornerstone Financial Forensics Clinic. This course delivers knowledge considered foundational in the financial forensics field for professionals seeking to hone their skills and deepen their expertise. This Clinic offers unparalleled insights and practical knowledge taught by NACVA’s top training team and will be one training program you will always remember with appreciation for all that you take away.
Key Features:
- In-Depth Curriculum: Learn alternative approaches and methodologies for accurate business damages measurement most appropriate for different situations.
- Legal Expertise: Understand notable and relevant code sections and case law that impact business damages determinations.
- Foundational Evidence: Master the identification and application of essential evidence most pertinent to your case.
- Research Mastery: Discover key research sources to drive and support your findings.
- Expert Reporting: Gain techniques and skills in crafting reports utilizing winning strategies withing best practices reporting guidelines.
Join us to enhance and expand your expertise and become a leader in the financial forensics field. Don't miss this opportunity—register today and take your career to new heights!
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Apply the traditional methodologies used for economic damages
- Explore and evaluate alternative approaches in the measurement of damages
- Apply models used in the measurement and presentation of economic damages
- Identify sources of information, economic, and industry data
- Integrate the use of statistical and economic concepts into damages models
- Discuss case law that impacts damages measurement
What You Will Cover
Price
Non-Members $1,160; Members $1,044 | 15 Hours CPE
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Learn from the nation’s top experts in this field how to master the art of managing financial fraud investigations from start to finish. With fraud running rampant, every business, every client, is vulnerable and this Financial Forensics Clinic is the only place we know that you can learn the ins and outs of this service and is your pathway to becoming a qualified expert in fraud investigation. With a focus on practical skills and real-world applications this Clinic will open opportunities to build a thriving practice in a field that is growing exponentially and for which you’ll never be at a loss for work, quite the opposite.
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Training: Learn the nuts and bolts of conducting a thorough fraud investigation.
- Forensic Accounting Techniques: Gain practical skills to uncover what happened, identify who was involved, and track the missing money.
- Evidence Management: Master the art of handling and organizing crucial evidence.
- Analytical Tools: Discover advanced tools and methods to analyze financial data and zero in on irregularities.
- Communication Skills: Learn how to report and present your findings effectively and professionally.
- Courtroom Testimony: Prepare to testify in court with confidence and authority.
Equip yourself with the essential tools and knowledge to excel in this specialized area of financial forensics. Don't miss this incredible opportunity and chance to elevate your career—register for the nation’s best course on conducting fraud investigations and become a leader in this ever-changing and highly challenging frontier.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Understand the classification of fraud schemes and some of the most common financial frauds
- Identify documents and evidence necessary to complete a fraud investigation
- Apply investigative techniques in fraud investigations
- Present the results of a financial investigation in writing and through testimony
What You Will Cover
- Brief introduction to fraud and core concepts: fraud triangle
- Occupational fraud schemes: types of schemes, characteristics of them, statistics
- Signs of fraud: accounting irregularities, control weaknesses, change in behavior or lifestyle, etc. (i.e., how do you know that you might have a fraud on your hands)
- Evaluating fraud tips
- Skills of a fraud investigator: typical backgrounds, education, licenses
- Differences between audits and investigations
- Beginning an engagement: types of engagements, civil versus criminal
- Working with attorneys and other experts
- Professional standards and guidance
- Assessing the engagement: what services does the client need, are you qualified, who is suspected, when can we start, what documents are available, etc.
- Engagement letters: including budgets, fees, and what to include in the engagement letter
- Obtaining evidence: subpoenas, interrogatories, discovery requests
- Document production: assisting with discovery requests, dealing with deficient productions, etc.
- Discovery issues
- Assembling the team: key participants, company insiders, outside consultants
- Management and supervision of staff
- Work programs and checklists
- Federal rules of evidence regarding expert witnesses
- Types of evidence: direct versus circumstantial
- Commonly overlooked documents
- Managing and preserving evidence: chain of custody, document logs, controlling access to documents, key documents file
- File maintenance
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Searching for fraud: starting the investigation depending on whether there is already known fraud or whether there is uncertainty about fraud
- Analytical review and financial ratios
- Common accounts used to hide fraud: write-offs, adjustments, miscellaneous, etc.
- Issues with manual disbursements
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Investigative techniques
- Sources of information: internal records, private records, public records
- Background checks: corporate, individual
- Relationships between people: case study on skip tracing
- Public records sources and searches
- Surveillance
- Digital data analysis: case study on Bedford’s law
- Computer forensics
- Interviewing
- Confirmation with customers and vendors
- Being creative in investigations
- Data analysis: qualitative and quantitative analysis
- Reviewing financial statements and records
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Investigation of asset misappropriation schemes: what is the scheme, what are the red flags that it is occurring, how might it be detected, techniques used to investigate it
- Cash receipts schemes: skimming, larceny, check kiting
- Cash disbursement schemes: expense report theft, register disbursement, check/EFT tampering, vendor schemes, shell companies, billing schemes, pay and return, payroll fraud
- Non-cash schemes: inventory theft, equipment theft, trade secrets/customer info theft, misuse of company assets
- Case study on asset misappropriation
- Preventing asset misappropriation
- Investigation of corruption schemes: bribes, kickbacks, extortion, conflicts of interest, related party transaction, money laundering, FCPA
- Preventing corruption
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Investigation of financial statement fraud
- Revenue overstatement
- Channel stuffing and round tripping
- Asset overstatement
- Liability and expenses understatement
- Reserve manipulation
- Misrepresentation or omission of information
- Improper recording of mergers and acquisition
- Off balance sheet schemes
- Use of judgment and estimates by management
- Preventing financial statement fraud
- Investigation of external fraud schemes: corporate espionage, investment/pyramid schemes, securities fraud, hidden income or assets, insurance fraud, bankruptcy fraud, elder abuse
- Writing your report: what to include/exclude, explaining contradicting evidence
- Things to include: background of case, documents analyzed, procedures performed, opinions, attachments
- Presenting evidence: using data visualization, charts, graphs (inclusion of words, pictures, numbers)
- Draft reports
- Making a mistake: what to do if you make a mistake in the report and discover it later
- Opposing expert reports: analysis, response, using it to support your own report, some engagements only include this element
- Responding to a motion in limine/Daubert challenge
- Deposition: how to prepare, demeanor, how to answer questions, what to do with unexpected questions, what if you make a mistake
- Trial: how to prepare, direct examination, cross examination, presenting to judges and juries
- Being prepared for an appeal
- Maintaining file materials after resolution of the case
- Professional liability issues
- Alternative dispute resolution: participating in settlement conferences, mediation, arbitration
- Follow-up by victim: what to do with your results (internal discipline, civil action, criminal action, prevention activities, etc.)
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CPE: 15 Hrs |
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- In-Depth Overview: Understand statutes, frameworks, and professional standards essential for assessing cybersecurity risk.
- Best Practices: Learn industry best practices for enhancing business operations and cybersecurity capabilities.
- Current Trends: Stay updated with the latest trends and developments in cybersecurity.
- Process Over Tools: Discover critical policies, processes, and procedures to implement in your organization for increased cybersecurity effectiveness.
- Real-World Case Studies: Analyze recent cybersecurity incidents to understand the impact of failures and learn from real-world examples.
- Risk Mitigation: Learn how to evaluate and mitigate risks from third-party providers and understand the interdependence of internal and external tools.
- Analyze cybersecurity risk factors for an organization
- Identify the different actors involved in cybercrime
- Determine the deliverables of a business e-mail compromise scam
- Summarize the digital forensics process
- Diagram the scope of a cybersecurity engagement
Individual Part Details and Registration(Full Course Registration Below) This course will review past cybersecurity incidents, examine the impact of each on various stakeholders, and identify engagements and reports available to the financial practitioner in this field.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Interpret cybersecurity incidents and their impact
- Develop assessment questions for use in insurance preparation or claims
- Develop assessment questions for use in valuation engagements
- Explain current data protection regulations
- Identify resources to develop recommendations in cybersecurity engagements related to data protection issues
This course will review common patterns of three scam types: Business email compromise, ransomware, and investment scams and will identify engagements available to the financial practitioner in this field.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define the cyber scam cycle for each of three types of cybercrimes: business email compromise, ransomware, and crypto investment scams
- Compare the scam cycle to real-world examples of previous incidents
- Identify common indicators of scams
- Discuss resources to develop recommendations in cybersecurity engagements related to cyber scams, including report templates
- Determine various loss calculations related to cyber scams
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This course will detail cybersecurity frameworks with a specific focus on NIST and will identify engagements available to the financial practitioner related to cybersecurity policy and process.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Originate a robust cybersecurity policy using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Develop a subpoena request for entities that rely on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Review other cybersecurity frameworks and understand their restrictions such as COSO, ISACA, HiTrust, and others
- Compile resources for developing policy recommendations in a cybersecurity engagement
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This course will review types of cybercrime with statutory damage claims such as Intellectual Property Theft and Trade Secrets Theft, Deceptive Trade Practices, and Identity Theft and will identify engagements available to the financial practitioner in these fields.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Detail the investigative cycle and develop reports related to cybercrime incidents
- Compare the investigative cycle to real-world examples of previous incidents
- Identify resources to develop recommendations in cybersecurity engagements related to identity theft, trade secrets, and deceptive trade practices
- Describe various loss calculations related to these incident types
Individual Part Details and Registration (Full Course Registration Below)
This course will detail the digital forensics process, identify deliverables from digital forensics analysis, illustrate how to incorporate deliverables into a financial expert’s report, specify jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements and resources, and identify engagements available to the financial practitioner related to digital forensics.
How You Will Benefit:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the digital forensic process, including maintaining admissibility of evidence
- Develop an expert report that relies on digital forensics deliverables
- Examine inappropriate uses of digital forensics and unlawfully gained evidence
- Identify how to handle the discovery of contraband during a digital forensics engagement
- Compile resources for developing expert reports that have a digital forensics component
- Compare various standards for building a digital forensics lab, including hardware, software, and security requirements
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The purpose of financial modeling is to improve decision making, and the purpose of financial forecasting is to solve a specific prospective financial/accounting problem. Forecasting is 80 percent science and 20 percent judgment; therefore, the science must be properly applied.
In this most valuable training, and only one of its kind in the valuation/financial litigation discipline, you will learn:
- Comprehensive Financial Modeling: Learn to construct and apply mathematical models for various objectives such as M&A, strategic growth, asset divestiture, business valuation, and financial damages determinations.
- Statistical Analysis: Understand the inter-relating mathematical relationships in financial accounting, financial analysis, and applied statistics.
- Decision-Making Tools: Improve your decision-making capabilities by leveraging financial forecasting techniques to solve specific financial problems.
- Applied Statistics: Gain expertise in using statistics to make wise decisions amidst uncertainty, balancing the science and judgment required for accurate forecasting.
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the three fundamental forecast models
- Identify the frequency distributions of data which conform to Benford's Law
- Construct a scatterplot graph of ordered pairs of data
- Evaluate the probabilities of the financial model outcomes and identify the optimum and obtainable outcomes
- Identify statistical fallacies common to legacy approaches, methods, and data analysis
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A financial forecast is a mathematical model developed to solve a specific prospective financial problem. Financial accounting is binary and the intrinsic mathematical relationships provide the formula for financial forecasting.
"Forecasting is a blend of science and art. Like most things in business, the rule applies to forecasting. By and large, forecasts are driven 80 percent mathematically and 20 percent judgmental." [Charles W. Chase, Jr., formerly director of forecasting at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Inc.]
After completing this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the three fundamental forecast models
- Design and implement a systematic and ordered approach to developing a financial forecast model
- Apply methods for testing the precision of the forecast model against historic financial data
- Calculate and interpret forecasting errors
Benford's Law or the Law of Anomalous Numbers is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in sets of conforming data. Benford observed a large bias towards lower digits (1,2 and 3) over the higher digits (7,8,9) in certain distributions of data. The various Benford tests identify deviations between the actual proportions and the expected proportions for specific digits in a distribution of data.
The magnitude and statistical significance of the deviations determines if the digit is selected (sample) for further analysis. The Benford tests have been applied to fraud investigations since 1972 and applied to financial accounting data for audit sampling and fraud detection since 1994.
After completing this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the frequency distributions of data which conform to Benford's Law
- Identify the minimum data set size, number magnitude, and characteristics conforming to Benford's Law
- Define the primary digit(s), Advanced and Associated tests for data deviations from the Benford proportions
Correlation and regression analysis are statistical methods which identify and measure the relationship between two or more data sets. Correlation measures the existence and strength of the relationship between variables. Regression analysis measures the quantitative effect of changes in the independent variable(s) upon the dependent variable(s) over time. The statistical significance of the relationship(s) provide a measure of the degree of confidence in the measured relationship as a predictor.
After completing this session, attendees will be able to:
- Calculate correlation coefficients and coefficient of determination
- Evaluate the strength of the relationship between the independent and dependent variable(s)
- Construct a scatterplot graph of ordered pairs of data
- Identify the limitations and common errors in applying regression analysis
- Perform Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) simple regression
- Interpret regression output statistics including Regression Statistics Table, ANOVA Table, and Regression Coefficient Table
Financial analysis measures the statistical relationship intrinsic to the data. The demonstrated historic statistical relationships over time provide the numerical measures for financial modeling. Financial modeling applies the historic statistical relationship to solve a specific accounting problem. The purpose of financial modeling is to improve decision making.
After completing this session, attendees will be able to:
- Apply statistical measures to historic financial data
- Develop a financial model based on the relational measurements intrinsic to financial accounting data
- Evaluate the probabilities of the financial model outcomes and identify the optimum and obtainable outcomes
Analytics is defined as the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics and the application of the data patterns for effective decision making. Knowledge of statistics and statistical fallacies is indispensable for the analyst in all disciplines requiring applied analytics.
After completing this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the statistical measures which are fundamental to financial analysis and financial modeling
- Apply the fundamental statistical measures to historic financial data and market studies
- Explain statistical methods in calculating precision, confidence levels, and statistical significance
- Identify statistical fallacies common to legacy approaches, methods, and data analysis
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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Matrimonial litigation support is without question the most common area valuation practitioners find themselves involved in litigation. It is almost unavoidable because, unfortunately, divorces are very common and often become litigious. Many practitioners build thriving careers around this field and once you’ve established yourself as knowledgeable and a winning team member, the legal community will be knocking down your door. Even if you choose not to specialize in this area of expertise, you need to have a solid grasp of the ins and outs of matrimonial litigation because as a reputable advisor, opportunities will undoubtedly come your way. This course is designed to equip financial professionals with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the intricacies of divorce proceedings and asset distribution, and be a valued advisor to the attorney that has hired you.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Process: Learn the complete process of matrimonial litigation support, from determining support to valuing and distributing assets. And very importantly, identifying and locating all the known and unknown assets to be divided.
- Asset Valuation: Gain expertise in valuing marital assets, including closely held businesses and stock options, ensuring accurate and fair assessments.
- Tax Implications: Understand the tax implications for divorce and asset distribution, helping you provide informed guidance to your clients.
- Asset Distribution: Master the strategies for equitable asset distribution, tailored to meet the unique needs of each case.
- Practice Management: Acquire insight to the best practices for managing matrimonial litigation support, enhancing your efficiency and effectiveness, making yourself an indispensable advisor to those who hire you.
Arm yourself with the essential tools and knowledge to excel in matrimonial litigation support. Enroll in our Financial Forensics Clinic today and become a trusted expert in guiding clients through complex divorce proceedings!
How You Will Benefit
After completing this course, attendees will be able to:
- Determine appropriate calculation methods for determining income
- Summarize asset tracing considerations and assumptions
- Evaluate net worth for the purpose of division
- Identify alternative calculation methods
- Apply computer assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATT) in matrimonial disputes
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This course is Part One in Matrimonial Litigation and is designed to provide an overview of how financial experts are engaged in matrimonial disputes. Part One includes the expert’s role in the legal process, specific types of assignments, structures of alternative dispute resolution, and understanding child support, alimony, and property distribution.
After completing this part, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the different structures of matrimonial disputes
- Explain child support calculations
- Summarize alimony and maintenance calculations
- Describe the effects of bankruptcy on alimony
- Evaluate state level property distribution differences
- Evaluate how to assist counsel in depositions, subpoenas, and requests
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This course is Part Two in Matrimonial Litigation and is designed to provide specific methods and alternatives for matrimonial calculations including determining income, tracing assets, lifestyle analysis, and the use of technology.
After completing this part, attendees will be able to:
- Determine appropriate calculation methods for determining income
- Summarize asset tracing considerations and assumptions
- Evaluate net worth for the purpose of division
- Identify alternative calculation methods
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Apply computer assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATT) in matrimonial disputes
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This course is Part Three in Matrimonial Litigation and is designed to provide details for each step of the report writing process (gathering data, conducting interviews, analyzing the data, summarizing, and presentation). Part Three also includes specific methods for identifying indicators of concealed assets and describes the caveats of various data sources.
After completing this part, attendees will be able to:
- Identify indicators of concealed assets
- Locate public information from open sources
- Describe common income misrepresentations
- Summarize examples of document request lists
- Specify an efficient matrimonial engagement
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Apply adjustments including Moore/Marsden calculations, Watts charges, and Epstein credits
This course is Part Four in Matrimonial Litigation and is designed to provide specific methods and considerations for conducting a valuation as part of a matrimonial dispute. Part Four includes valuation factors, different approaches and methods, and special considerations such as goodwill and digital assets (such as bitcoin and other cryptocurrency). After completing this part, attendees will be able to:
- Identify different premises of value (going concern and liquidation)
- Identify different standards of value and the requirements for defense and selection
- Summarize valuation approaches (asset, income, market, and hybrid)
- Produce appropriate visualizations for summary
- Identify valuation factors for simple digital asset holdings (such as bitcoin)
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Apply special considerations for a Marvin action
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This course is Part Five in Matrimonial Litigation and is an overview of matrimonial specific taxation. Covers everything from pre-TCJA provisions still in effect for older settlements to post-TCJA changes. Includes IRC Sec 1041, QDROs, tax fraud, and other matters.
After completing this part, attendees will be able to:
- Summarize pre-TCJA Act Alimony rules required for Pre 2019 agreements opened for reconsideration
- Explain post-TCJA Alimony rules
- Report about IRC Sec. 1041, Tax Free Transfer of Property Pursuant to a Divorce
- Identify how to handle the marital residence
- Demonstrate how to file options pre- and post-divorce
- Explain New Child Tax Credits
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Key Features:
- Lost Earnings: Learn how to calculate lost earnings or economic support, including various approaches to assessing past and future losses due to the injury.
- Lost Benefits: Understand the intricacies of valuing lost benefits which are often a big part of one’s earnings, and can include health insurance, retirement contributions, and a variety of other employment-related perks.
- Medical Expenses: Often, an injury results in expensive current and future medical costs, and with the escalating rise in medical costs this alone can be the largest part of the financial damages calculation and award. Here you need to know the latest methodologies and healthcare cost trends to arrive at a reasonably accurate estimate of costs that you can defend when asked, because you will be asked.
- Household Services: Often, this is the last thing injured parties think about but needed household services are a very real part of life and the injured party’s inability to perform certain tasks can be debilitating, frustrating, and without question lead to a very unhappy life. To bring full justice to the injured party, the valuator must master the assessment of costs of a wide range of household services, in order to quantify the economic impact of the injured party's inability to perform such tasks.
- Current Literature and Most Importantly Sources of Data: Stay up to date with the most recent literature and sources of data much from government sources across multiple topics relevant for personal injury damages determinations, ensuring your calculations are grounded in the latest research.
How You'll Benefit
After completing the course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify the methodologies used to calculate compensatory and punitive damages
- Differentiate between economic losses and non-economic losses
- Identify the definition of opinion of value of damages, including pre-judgment interest
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Part 2: Calculating Personal Injury Damages
Part 3: Personal Injury but for Earnings
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Part 4: Calculating Personal: Mitigating Earnings/Tax Rates
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Part 5: Calculating Personal Injury: Lost Future Medical/Household Services
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Wrongful Death, as sad and unfortunate as it is, is quite common. Many attorneys focus their careers on this one area of the law. By its very definition, wrongful death, means someone or some entity is likely at fault and consequently, they must pay for the damages. Your job as a valued valuation advisor to the attorney and their client, is to make the determination of damages owed to the heir(s) of the estate of the deceased. And this is where it gets complicated because many factors go into this determination, like the obvious lost compensation, where you must factor in growth of earnings over a lost lifetime in the workforce. This is complicated where the deceased is the owner of a business, especially a profitable one on a path of growth. Then there are the not so obvious costs, like contributions to the household in the way of service, i.e., handyman services, yard care, etc. Your job is to make sure every penny for a lost lifetime is taken into consideration. This Financial Forensic Clinic is designed to enhance your expertise in calculating damages determinations in the very specialized field of wrongful death cases. Here we cover the myriad of critical elements and processes needed to provide accurate and comprehensive assessments.
Key Features:
- Lost Earnings: Learn to calculate lost earnings and lost economic opportunity, accurately assessing past and future income losses due to wrongful death.
- Lost Benefits: Understand how to value lost benefits, including health insurance, retirement contributions, and other employment-related perks and opportunities that are no longer available.
- Medical and Burial Expenses: Gain practical insight to wrapping your arms around unanticipated, yet incurred, medical expenses and associated costs, along with the costs involved in funeral and burial that are justifiably part of a damages claim. Here, we look at the latest sources and databases for obtaining this type of information, combining that with your own determinations, to acertain what is reasonable in your client’s claim.
- Household Services: Master the assessment of lost household services, quantifying the economic impact of the deceased’s inability to perform household tasks.
- Current Literature and Sources: Stay informed with the most recent literature and sources of information and data across multiple topics in wrongful death damages, ensuring your calculations are grounded in the latest research.
This course will open practice growth opportunities that are currently being capitalized on by very few because there is little competition in this field. This Forensic Clinic will equip you with the essential tools and knowledge to excel in calculating damages in wrongful death cases. Enroll in our Financial Forensics Clinic 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 steps for calculating a but-for earnings stream, benefit rates, worklife expectancy, and the value of personal consumption
- Determine appropriate discount rates, appropriate tax rates, and present value of future medical expenses
- Identify and value lost household services
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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