financial forensics services
Are you an attorney looking for an expert in financial forensics to help a client?
Here at Cogence Group, we are best known for our Financial Forensic Services. With more than 30 years of trial experience in more than 170 cases, we have the integrity, knowledge, passion, and credibility to help you in the courtroom. We persuasively and clearly communicate all our findings to attorneys, judges, and jurors, making us a critical piece to the litigation process.
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Take a look at our 2023 Financial Forensics Year in Review to see the types of engagements we were involved in last year.
“Jay’s trial presentation was top notch, and it led the judge to adopt in her opinion Jay’s methodology and nearly every conclusion he reached”
Economic Damages
When it comes to Economic Damages your biggest challenge will be finding an accounting firm that is technically skilled, while also being able to communicate the information in an easily understandable way. Economic Damages are rooted in lost profits of a business. Through careful analysis of lost revenue and avoided costs we arrive at a reliable Economic Damages conclusion.
Forensic Accounting
Forensic accounting disputes involve extensive analysis of financial records and data to understand how the money was spent. This service requires a combination of expertise in accounting, auditing, and investigative skills, coupled with effective explanation of findings. Since we are all CPAs, that is where we thrive!
Shareholder Disputes
We have experience helping many lawyers and business owners in inevitable shareholder disputes.
When a dispute occurs over an unclear buy-sell agreement or a buyout is triggered, we are here to assist you in interpreting the valuation provisions of the buy-sell.
Marital Dissolution
Forensic accounting and business valuation skills are paramount when it comes to assisting you and you client in a marital dissolution matter. We have worked for husbands and wives, for the in-spouse or out-spouse, on one side or the other or jointly. We have seen it all over the past 30 years of doing work in this arena.
“The people at Cogence dig deep for facts to support financial claims, they are available to discuss strategy, and their analysis and opinions carry the day in an adversary proceeding”
Wrongful Termination, Personal Injury, and Wrongful Death
We factor in expected retirement age, past salary, current salary, and future salary expectations into calculating lost wages due to termination, injury or death.
data analysis
Commercial litigation matters can include data sets with hundreds of thousands of rows. Our team has experience identifying data discrepancies, synthesizing the data, and communicating the big picture patterns to a trier-of-fact.
Business Interruption Claims
When your business has suffered a shutdown and it is time to bring your lost income claim to the insurance company, we are here to assist you in understanding how the most recent financial performance before the shutdown is best used to provide a defensible and supported picture of the loss.
Trade Secrets & Intellectual Property
Intangible assets have real value and lead to real profits.
Cogence Group determines lost profits to a business or unjust enrichment to a competitor in a trade secrets or intellectual property dispute.
Bankruptcy Analysis
A business’s solvency comes into play in fraudulent conveyance, bankruptcy alter ego and due diligence actions. Cogence Group has experience issuing and reviewing solvency opinions in the context of bankruptcy and litigation.
“Cogence did an outstanding job of forensic analysis in our case which was very complex with discovery material that was challenging”