Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony

Index

NOTE: Page references in italics refer to figures.

A

• Accounting research/analysis, neutral accounting arbitration
• Accuracy, of reports
• Administrative protocols, for arbitration
• Advertising, by financial experts
• Alternative dispute resolution
  • arbitration
  • generally
  • mediation
  • neutral accounting arbitration
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
  • Characteristics and Skills of the Forensic Accounting
  • on maximizing effectiveness
  • on selecting financial experts
• Answer, as stage of litigation process
• Appropriateness, of reports
• Arbitration,
  • activities
  • financial expert participation in
  • generally
  • organizations
  • structure of
• Assignment inquiries, deposition and
• Assignments, accepting. See Engagement acceptance
• Attire
• Attorney-client privilege
• Attorneys. See Client attorneys; Opposing attorneys
• Attorney Work Product privilege
• Award notification, arbitration

B

• “Baseball” arbitration
• Bates stamping
• Beilock, Sian L.
• Bench trials
• Best evidence rule
• Billing practices
• “Book of wisdom”
• Briefs
• Business arrangements, deposition questions about
• Business conflicts of interest

C

• California State University
• Care (“seven Cs” of financial expert witnesses)
• Cases
  • assessment of, by financial expert witnesses
  • disclosing cases in which witness participated
  • relevant case law
  • storyline of
• Causation
• Characteristics and Skills of the Forensic Accounting (AICPA)
• Citations
• Civil liability. See Liability
• Civil litigation. See Litigation process
• Clarity, of reports ...