Experts in our network have experience addressing complex accounting issues in a variety of contexts including investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters. Our experts have professional and academic experience as CPAs and CFAs and are experts in management accounting, management control systems, forensic accounting, and corporate governance.
Our experts have been retained in litigation regarding cost and inventory accounting where they have addressed issues such as liability and damages. In addition, they have testified in matters involving fraudulent financial reporting.
Below is a list of example engagements for our Accounting practice:
Analysis of Company's Financial Guidance: Professor Michael Willis was retained on a securities case to opine on whether a company’s EBITDA and revenue budget was consistent with best practices following a large cross-border acquisition. He found that the financial guidance was based on overly aggressive assumptions about contract labor, agency costs, and average daily census, which did not align with historical trends. Professor Willis also determined that the company consistently underperformed, and early in the year, it became clear that its EBITDA targets were unlikely to be met.
Tracing Analysis: Vega was engaged to support an accounting expert who was retained to determine whether funds that had passed through commingled accounts could be traced according to strict 9th circuit ERISA standards. As part of this engagement, the Vega expert performed a detailed review of thousands of transaction statements and case documents.
Continuing Lecturer of Finance and Real Estate at UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and Lecturer in Law at UCLA School of Law
- Real Estate
- Corporate Finance
- Valuation
- Financial Institutions
- Private Equity
- Accounting
Lecturer of Accounting at UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Securities & Finance
- Valuation
- Intellectual Property
- Accounting
- Corporate Governance
Allstate Chair in Insurance and Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Insurance & Risk
- Valuation
- Securities & Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Accounting
Eric L. Kohler Professor Emeritus at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Real Estate
- Valuation
- Antitrust & Competition
- Securities & Finance
- Accounting
Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy and Professor of Accounting at Leventhal School of Accounting, Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California
- Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
- Leadership & Management
- Accounting
- Corporate Governance
Management Practice Associate Professor, University of Cambridge Judge Business School
- Accounting
- Financial Institutions
- Securities & Finance