More than 40 years experience in business analysis

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Michael Goldman has been qualified as an expert numerous times in both state and federal courts in matters requiring opinions on forensic accounting, solvency, business valuation, fraudulent conveyance, fraud, economic damages, contract disputes, marital dissolution, and shareholder oppression. He has been deposed more than 25 times and has testified more than 25 times. Michael is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Valuation Analyst and is Certified in Financial Forensics by the AICPA. Mr. Goldman has worked for bankruptcy courts and trustees, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, and debtors in numerous insolvency and restructuring engagements. He has provided opinions for both plaintiffs and defendants in economic damages cases, divorce, and partnership dissolutions. Michael also maintains a tax preparation practice. Mr. Goldman was a professor teaching Entrepreneurship at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management for fifteen years and has custom designed courses in Fraud, Internal Control, and Accounting Management in the school’s corporate education division. He has written several articles or book chapters for several professional publications. Prior to his consulting roles Mr. Goldman worked for more than 12 years in corporations as a Controller or Chief Financial Officer, giving him an insider perspective and set of in-company experiences that most consultants cannot match. Areas of Special Competence include: • Forensic reviews in insolvency, divorce, fraud, breach of contract, and other business situations or litigation matters • Litigation support / expert witness - fraud, fraudulent conveyance, lost profits or economic damages analysis, breach of fiduciary duties, insolvency, shareholder oppression, reasonable compensation, acquisitions, start-ups, reasonable compensation, and business valuation. Also provides discovery assistance, deposition preparation, testimony preparation, and other aspects of litigation support • Corporate reorganizations, development and implementation of turnaround plans for businesses in crisis, assessment of viability for troubled companies • Bankruptcy advice, negotiations, and trustee services • Business Valuations for divorce, bankruptcy, business sales, shareholder issues, other litigation, and for estate and gift purposes • Reconstruction of accounting records