We offer the knowledge, expertise and hands-on experience to deliver the full range of resources required to address clients' needs. Our professional team is dedicated to support our clients and legal community network and offer a variety of services used to help identify, analyze, evaluate and respond to vital financial, accounting and tax information, needed during the litigation process. Principal services in this department include:
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Through the elaboration and construction of complex financial models, the Forensic and Litigation professionals at Nexia Friedman can assist in the search for assets identifying the nature of the loss, calculating the different economic damages and identifying implications of past jurisprudence. We work closely with other experts, taking a team approach in considering such factors as income streams, lost earnings, discount factors and historical trends among others.
Our experience is wide ranging and includes, accounting fraud, employee fraud, product liability, breach of contract, patent infringement, personal injury and professional liability.
At Nexia Friedman, our Forensic Accounting services include:
- Analyzing books and records, to detect and quantity losses
- Evaluating general internal controls, to determine weaknesses in the system
- Reconstructing financial records, to detect unreported assets, liabilities or income
- Performing cash flows and trend analysis, to determine irregularities
- Evaluating the timing and sequence of events, to determine unauthorized transactions
As Forensic accountants, we assist attorneys in evaluating the merits of a contemplated litigation and formulating appropriate strategies during discovery. We highlight pertinent financial information and assist in the preparation of questions for examinations. We provide our comments on experts’ reports and meet the opposing experts for mediation purposes. At trial, we assist in the preparation of trial exhibits, in the evaluation of the financial evidence presented by the opposition and the preparation of questions for cross-examinations.
Over the years we have developed a unique and comprehensive reporting model that allows the reader to quickly understand the facts and analysis in a concise manner. Our team of professionals has extensive experience as expert witnesses and provides independent assistance in courts of law.
