Certified in Financial Forensics

I feel completely surrounded – like the Spartans did in Battle of Thermopylae, chronicled in the movie “300”. Rather than being encircled by Xerxes’ Persian army, however, my plight is much more benign (and much less bloody). I’m bombarded by the amount articles discussing the convergence of U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Exposure drafts for revised standards developed jointly by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International...

As if it isn’t hard enough to remember someone’s name when you first meet them, business valuation experts typically have a mass of letters after their name, too.  While most people are familiar with the CPA (Certified Public Accountant) designation, there a number of other credentials that indicate proficiency and experience specifically in performing business valuations.  The summary below is a “decoder ring” to some of the more common valuation credentials.  I promise the secret message will...