Forensic Accounting Expert Witness Certificate

Overview

In business, teams can contribute to major success or disintegrate into failure. Be sure that you’re building a winning team by understanding the dynamics of teams in the workplace. Understand the relationship between the learned and what is required for successful performance within a team context. We’ll focus on key team roles, characteristics of high-performing teams and other key success behaviors that support group morale and productivity. Note: There is a minimum passing rate of 70% for this course. The webcast was originally broadcast on June 8, 2015.

Highlights

• Expanding an accounting practice into forensics
• Developing and documenting expert opinions
• Organizing files for litigation credibility
• Foundational strategies for deposition testimony
• Advanced techniques for deposition success
• Preparing and delivering direct examination testimony
• Surviving cross-examination with professionalism

Prerequisites

Experience as a CPA or financial professional; a working knowledge of accounting and financial reporting. Familiarity with forensic accounting fundamentals is strongly recommended.

Objectives

• Identify opportunities to expand an accounting practice into forensic services while maintaining ethical and professional standards.
• Recognize how to develop and document a defensible expert opinion using structured methodologies.
• Determine best practices for organizing expert files to withstand scrutiny in litigation.
• Identify foundational and advanced strategies for preparing and delivering effective deposition testimony.
• Recognize techniques for presenting clear, credible, and persuasive direct examination testimony in court.
• Determine methods for maintaining objectivity, credibility, and professionalism under cross-examination.

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.