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Bill
Black is a financial professional with extensive experience in
business valuation, litigation consulting and litigation support,
intellectual property valuation and analysis, forensic accounting
and records reconstruction, fraud investigation and analysis, and
management strategy and risk assessment. He holds a PhD in
Accounting and has taught numerous accounting-related subjects at
leading universities throughout the United States. Since 1991, he
has led analytical teams and performed in-depth analysis of complex
financial problems from his home base in Atlanta. He currently
teaches accounting and information systems at the University of
North Georgia.
Black has been appointed by courts to provide a neutral
financial perspective and to assist the trier of fact in understanding
complex business issues. He has been assigned to provide a neutral
business valuation in the dissolution of a regional distribution
concern, and appointed to serve as an auditor and business
valuation expert in winding up the affairs of a personal-injury law
firm.
Prior to establishing his independent consulting practice, Black
directed and managed litigation consulting engagements for Deloitte
& Touche and Price Waterhouse. He has
served as a financial information systems consulting manager for
Deloitte Haskins & Sells, and has directed financial planning
and analysis for a $500 million group of the Penn Central
Corporation. Black has worked on the research and technical staff
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, where he assisted in the
development and issuance of major components in the conceptual
framework for financial accounting and reporting, including Qualitative
Characteristics of Accounting Information, Elements of Financial
Statements, and Measurement. He provided staff support for the Pathways Commission,
addressing the future of education for the next generation of
accountants.
Professional certifications and memberships
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Certified Public Accountant
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Certified in Financial Forensics
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Accredited in Business Valuation
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Certified Fraud Examiner
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Certified Management Accountant
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Certified Valuation Analyst
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Member: Georgia Society of Certified
Public Accountants
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Member: American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, Forensic and Valuation Services
section
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Member: Association of Certified
Fraud Examiners, Georgia Chapter
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Member: National Association of
Certified Valuation Analysts, Past President Georgia Chapter
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Member: Institute of Management
Accountants
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Member: American Accounting
Association
Education
University of Mississippi, PhD in Accounting
The Pennsylvania State University, MS in Accounting
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, BS in Business
Administration
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