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Avoid These Five Common Mistakes When Valuing a Business – Part One

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including business valuation, fraud investigation, and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. While, in most cases, a business valuation process follows proper professional procedures, there are times when a… Read more »

Ferreting Out Highly Questionable Meal and Entertainment Expense Deductions

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and marital dissolution services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. In forensic accounting cases involving marital dissolution or disputes between shareholders or businesses, one of the most-often-abused financial categories – says… Read more »

A Declaration for Independence of Expert Witnesses

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and marital dissolution services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Contrary to what some people think, expert witnesses in litigation are not supposed to be advocates for the side that hired… Read more »

Properly Evaluating the Credibility of Forensic Investigation Interviewees

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and marital dissolution services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. A key part of any fraud or forensic-based investigation – says David Anderson, principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia… Read more »

Beware The Prodigal Son – Or Daughter – Who Might Be Tending Your Flock

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and marital dissolution services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. You are, no doubt, familiar with the parable of the Prodigal Son. One of two sons asks his father for his… Read more »

Preventing Employee Fraud Starts with Your Corporate Culture

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, forensic accounting, and marital dissolution services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. A recent fraud investigation of a privately held company focused on a CFO who had spent years following the directives of… Read more »

Why the Date of Valuation Matters When Valuing a Business

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including business valuation, fraud investigation, and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. One of the key factors in performing a business valuation is to determine the date of the… Read more »

Getting Personal with Expenses in a Divorce-Related Business Valuation

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including fraud investigation and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Determining the equitable value of a business at the center of a divorce case can be a tricky circumstance… Read more »

Cash Transactions Can Be Tricky When Valuing a Business in a Divorce

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including fraud investigation and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. The decision to end a marriage is a messy affair that becomes undoubtedly more complicated when the division of… Read more »

Forensic Accounting Experts Help with Business Valuation in Divorces

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including fraud investigation and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. There’s nothing simple about a divorce. Even a seemingly easy marriage dissolution can have its complications. When you factor… Read more »

Forensic Accounting Experts Ease Divorce Valuation Issues

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of forensic accounting services including fraud investigation and fraud deterrence programs in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley.  When determining the value of a business is at the heart of divorce settlement calculations, coming to an agreement… Read more »

Don’t Keep This to Yourself: Trade Secrets Have Value

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, fraud deterrence, litigation support and expert witness testimony services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley.  Business valuation experts often are asked to value intangible assets of companies.  A major component of such assets… Read more »

Not All Financial Statements Are “Associated” With Reliability

David Anderson is principal of David Anderson & Associates, a Philadelphia forensic accounting firm that provides a full range of fraud investigation, fraud deterrence, litigation support and expert witness testimony services in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley.  When you learn a company is “associated” with an accounting firm, don’t automatically assume the financial statements that… Read more »