Financial experts are engaged to perform forensic accounting and valuation services for a number of reasons. Forensic accounting services are most often performed as part of a litigation or investigation. Valuation services...more
Ask a trial lawyer what he or she would give to have an expert witness as effective as Mona Lisa Vito, the third-generation mechanic/out-of-work hairdresser whose testimony on positraction saved the day in Judge Chamberlain...more
A&B Abstract: With recent and forthcoming changes to federal valuation requirements, the Appraisal Foundation is considering the development of standards for performing evaluations in the USPAP....more
Last week, the Appraisal Institute unveiled its Standards of Valuation Practice (SVP). SVP will not replace USPAP (the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) -- which have long-been the mainstay of appraisal...more