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Preventing Fraud Losses Across Multiple Business Locations

If you operate your business in multiple locations (as with retail or restaurant chains), you face some extraordinary fraud-prevention challenges. After all, you can’t be everywhere at once. And the more locations you operate, the harder they are to monitor....

Preventing Fraud Losses

Ready, set, value!

When the parties know what to expect at each phase of a business valuation project, it makes the process easier for everyone. This awareness promotes collaboration and timeliness, as well as minimizes potential surprises, misunderstandings and rework. Here’s the...

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Timing Counts When Valuing a Business

In today’s uncertain markets, the value of a business may change significantly over time. So it’s important to choose the business valuation date carefully. Often, the date is prescribed by law or a judge. But sometimes attorneys or others, such as the executor in...

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True ‘Court Confessions’ of a Financial Expert

There’s a fundamental understanding—or maybe a misunderstanding—of the role of a financial expert in litigation. Sometimes, an attorney or, more likely, a client will not realize that the role of a financial expert is not the same as that of a lawyer. We are there...

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Why Forensic Accounting is Important for Restaurants

Among business owners facing the highest fraud risk are restaurant owners, who are often susceptible to asset misappropriation schemes. This is where a forensic accounting expert can play an invaluable role. It involves the application of accounting and...

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How the Pros Use Public Data to Value Private Businesses

Business valuation professionals often use public stock market data to value private businesses — even though there are critical differences between closely held and publicly traded companies. Here’s an overview of how valuators modify their analyses to take...

Got Fraud? Call a Forensic Accountant

Fraud perpetrated by employees, management, vendors or customers can happen to any business. And if it does, it can take years to recover from the financial losses and reputational damage. In some cases — especially those involving small companies that lack the...

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