Accounting Expertise

Skilled in financial reporting, financial statement auditing, and forensic accounting, the Bates team applies the relevant professional standards to:
- Analyze complex accounting matters
- Assist in proving alter ego liability using relevant internal accounting and financial reporting evidence
- Opine on a party’s ability to pay punitive damages based on the financial condition of an entity and related parties
- Assist in resolving royalty disputes
- Evaluate allegations of accounting/professional malpractice, such as a failure to comply with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS)
- Determine whether an entity’s financial statements were prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Identify red flags indicative of financial statement or accounting fraud and pinpoint related internal control weaknesses
- Interpret the significance of accounting information in relation to the operations and performance of a business, government agency or a non-profit entity