Lost Profit Engagements for Forensic Accounting and Valuation Practitioners

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4Credits
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$120.00 Regular Price
Product Code: AI23-LPEF
Level: Basic
Vendor: AICPA CPE Division
Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge

Overview:

Lost Profit Engagements

Gain a foundation

Gain a solid foundation to perform credible lost profits analyses.
As a practitioner with expertise in the forensic accounting and valuation disciplines, understand how to measure lost profits in commercial disputes when a business experiences an actionable harm.

Know your role

Understand your role as both non-testifying consultants and testifying expert witnesses.

Understand how to perform sound analyses that are credible from a theoretical perspective, tied to facts, and legally admissible.

Objectives:

Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize the legal principles governing the recovery of damages and how lost profits are a measure of damages.
  • Recall the concept and the assessment of lost profit calculations.
  • Identify the methods and approaches used for estimating lost revenues and the associated avoided costs.
  • Identify other factors that may be relevant to calculating lost profits such as prejudgment interest, discounting damages, tax implications, and mitigation.

Major Topics:

Key Topics

  • Types of damages
  • Reasonable certainty
  • Authoritative and non-authoritative standards
  • Lost profits formula and models
  • Lost revenue and estimating costs

Designed For:

Who Will Benefit

  • Forensic accounting and valuation professionals looking to expand their knowledge in this area


Prerequisite:

No