Course Description:
When disputes involve complex accounting, financial and economic issues, businesses and their counsel can turn to Eide Bailly to provide the technical expertise to evaluate and assess damages sustained by the plaintiff or to defend against claimed damages. Eide Bailly’s professionals are adept at analyzing business operations, financial records, market conditions and industry trends to measure lost profits damages, contract damages, loss of business value, fraud damages and damages in a variety of other matters. In this webinar, our professionals will discuss working alongside attorneys, businesses and individuals to obtain necessary documentation and data to support or defend an accurate determination of damages.

Learning Objectives:

• Define what economic damages are and could be for your business.
  
• Review financial documents and evidence.
  
• Assess developments and components of the damage model.
  
• Compare expert reports and exhibits.

Presenters:
Lela C. Lawless, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, Director | Eide Bailly
Lela has over twenty-five years of public accounting experience managing complex litigation support, business valuation, forensic accounting and fraud detection as well as analyzing claims and calculating economic damages related to lost profits, fraud schemes, accounting malpractice claims, bankruptcy, employment, contract disputes and other business disputes. She has provided expert testimony in both deposition and trial in state and federal courts.

Norman A. Kur, CFE, CMA, AM, Director | Eide Bailly
Norman has nearly 20 years of experience in numerous aspects of forensic accounting and economics, focusing on the calculation of economic damages in the form of lost profits in commercial litigation settings and lost earnings in personal injury and wrongful death matters. He has additional experience with business interruption insurance claims, fraud investigations and business valuations. He has provided expert testimony at deposition, trial and arbitration.

CPE Credit: 1
Field of Study: Accounting
Level of Knowledge: Overview
Delivery Method: Group-Internet Based

Additional Information: This is a Group-Internet Based Webinar. All webinars are listed in Central time. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required. For information regarding refund, complaint and program cancellation policies, please contact Amy DeGeorge.