Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the way we do business, making companies, as The Economist once put it, “swifter, cleverer, and leaner.”
Unfortunately, legitimate businesses aren’t the only ones with access ...
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The long-running financial fraud investigation and subsequent criminal cases involving Theranos Inc. offer a cautionary tale on how easily investors and stakeholders can be deceived by company insiders.
Theranos founder Elizabeth ...
In a financial fraud investigation, using technology to marshal big data can be a major help. But it’s just one piece of the puzzle. To complete the picture, a fraud investigator must rely on information gathered from a disparate array of ...
It was a sprawling and complex piece of litigation, and the attorneys involved faced a series of questions that could only be answered by specialists with deep forensic and investigative expertise.
How would they determine the value of ...
A conflict of interest is not unlike the common cold. It may be a minor annoyance that resolves itself after a little discomfort. Or, if left untreated, the conflict can develop into something far worse—corruption—and prove damaging and even ...
For attorneys pursuing COVID-19-related business interruption claims, one of the chief challenges is the provision in most insurance policies that damages should be caused by a direct physical loss or direct physical damage to the insured ...
Welcome to the second and final part of our blog series on lack of control discounts and control premiums, two critically important issues when calculating the value of a company.
We tackled some of the fundamental questions attorneys may ...
When working with appraisers, attorneys are likely to grapple with questions about the relationship between two key business valuation concepts involving control exercised over a company.
The first concept is the “lack of control discount,” ...
At many small businesses, it’s not uncommon to still find a mass of paper records, yellowing with age and haphazardly tossed in boxes, as well as old-school computers and dot-matrix printers with tractor feeds and green bar paper.
Yet even ...
Selecting the right expert to calculate economic damages in a breach of contract claim can be critical in the success of an attorney’s case. The expert must be able to calculate damages resulting from a breach of contract and convey the story ...
Organizations often take it as an article of faith that their auditors are following professional standards—and for good reason. Publicly released peer reviews of auditing firms give 95 percent of them passing grades for their work. In fact, a ...
In my last blog post, I discussed the two types of transactions—stock and asset—that are found in the databases appraisers use when applying the guideline transaction method in litigated business valuation and how to use these transactions to ...