Forensic Accounting and Damages Expert

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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A. Christine (Chris) Davis is an accounting and economic damages expert. She works with attorneys and their clients, businesses, nonprofits, and public agencies. Based in San Francisco, California for most of her career, Chris is now based in scenic Paso Robles, California with clients throughout the U.S. Chris has over 30 years of combined professional experience in public accounting, financial accounting and reporting, management accounting, forensic accounting and litigation consulting, financial statement auditing, preparing corporate and partnership income tax returns, and calculating and reporting on the fair market value of privately held businesses. She holds professional credentials in public accounting, management accounting, financial forensics, and business valuation. Chris's retention as a consulting and testifying expert are in the areas of forensic accounting, economic damages, financial accounting and reporting, and management accounting. She has led and participated in a wide range of matters involving public corporations, privately held companies, nonprofits, and individuals. She has been admitted as an accounting and economic damages expert at trials and other proceedings venued in California Superior courts and Federal District courts in the U.S, and at dispute resolution hearings at JAMS and FINRA. She has been a designated expert in many matters involving forensic accounting, complex accounting analyses, economic damages, such as lost business profits and lost earnings, partnership disputes, alleged accountant malpractice, alleged financial accounting and reporting violations, and shareholder lawsuits for violations of Section 10(b). She also has considerable experience in investigating allegations of asset misappropriation and financial improprieties, assisting in wage and hour disputes, explaining to the trier of fact an entity’s ability to pay punitive damages based upon its financial condition and related metrics, and preparing business valuations. Whether testifying as an expert witness, presenting investigative findings to stakeholders, or providing CLE courses to attorneys, Chris’s primary goals are to be well-prepared, to inform, and to persuade. She excels at unraveling and explaining, in plain English, complicated financial analyses while efficiently instilling fundamental financial concepts. With decades of frontline experience from which to draw, Chris aims to communicate her expert conclusions and opinions with clarity, objectivity, impact, and care. QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS 1. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) • State of California (#69217) - 1995 • State of New York (#101228) – 2009 • District of Columbia (#CPA40000212) - 2022 2. Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA] (#257) - 2008 3. Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), AICPA - 2014 4. Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts [NACVA] (#041850) – 2008 5. Arbitrator Certificate, Bar Association of San Francisco - 2015