Clinical accounting and forensic accounting define this expert witness’s work across accounting fraud detection, due diligence in the mortgage industry, manipulated financial statements, financial statement analysis, and cost and management accounting. He has more than 25 years of experience as an expert in clinical accounting and holds a Doctor of Commerce Degree in Accounting, a Master of Commerce Degree in Accounting, a Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He is a Certified Public Accountant, inactive, and a Chartered Accountant.

He specializes in the detection of accounting fraud, exposure of fraudulent financial statements, recognition of signals indicating that financial statements have been manipulated, earnings management, balance sheet fraud, auditing, investigative accounting, accounting malpractice, accounts receivable financing, theft and loss analysis, financial reporting, GAAP-related issues, management accounting, and cost accounting. His academic work includes professor-level clinical accounting responsibilities, development of advanced coursework in detection of fraudulent financial reporting, and prior academic leadership involving accounting curriculum development, faculty hiring, evaluation, and scheduling. His published and presentation work addresses fictitious financial reporting, accounting fraud signals, financial statement manipulation, fraudulent financial statements, and methods used to detect financial reporting fraud.

His mortgage-industry expertise includes due diligence for buyers and sellers of mortgage loans, mortgage fraud, mortgage industry standards, mortgage-backed securities, mortgage-backed securitization, mortgage loan buybacks, repurchase of mortgage loans, liability for mortgage loans, and representations that mortgage loans complied with underwriting guidelines. He has experience with arbitration and served on a mock-arbitration panel for a major mortgage-industry matter regarding allegedly false representations that mortgage loans complied with underwriting guidelines. His professional memberships include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Accounting Association, Association of Chartered Accountants in the United States, and South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.