Forensic Accounting
When you need forensic accounting expertise you can trust, we can be the perfect support for your team.
Fraud threatens every organization. Our professionals can help protect businesses, investigate issues, and analyze data.
We have decades of experience dealing with financial investigations, corruption allegations, and other fraud schemes. Many of our investigators have spent decades conducting large-scale investigations across many industries including technology, consumer markets, healthcare, and financial services.
How do you get the best for your clients?
Your clients are seeking top quality, efficient strategies to manage increasing litigation. You want experts who can help you assess cases early and provide efficient, effective, hands-on service.
Our partner-led engagement teams deliver objective, independent solutions that are custom fit for each case.
We focus on your clients’ matters from the beginning, collaborating internally to leverage years of professional experience in forensic accounting, as well as public accounting, economic damages, business valuation and fraud examination.
Plug into broad expertise about your clients’ businesses.
Half a century of experience serving thousands of clients in practically every industry makes our firm’s professional staff a deep resource of information for you and your clients.
Law firms and corporations come to us when they need solutions to complex problems. Whether it’s turning data dumps into manageable relational databases, tracing funds across borders or creating easy-to-understand exhibits, we can help you leverage technology to drive case strategy and get the right results for clients.
Fraud can strike any organization. How can you help your clients strike back?
Our professionals hold various credentials, including:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
- Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)
- Certified Anti-Money laundering Specialist (CAMS)
- Certified Computer Examiner (CCE)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Our team has extensive experience providing investigative and forensic accounting and advisory services, including:
Financial Statement Fraud
- Revenue recognition manipulation
- Improper capitalization of expenses
- Improper utilization of reserves
- Manipulated, omitted, and/or misleading disclosures
Asset Misappropriation
- Skimming
- Embezzlement
- Payroll schemes
- Time & expense
- Intellectual property
- Third party frauds
Corruption & Bribery
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations
- Vendor kickback schemes
- Contract/bid rigging fraud
- Money laundering investigations
Key Contacts
Byron M. Brown, CPA, CFF, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Byron M. Brown joined Kaufman Rossin in 2010 and is a principal in our Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. Byron’s experience includes providing forensic investigatory and dispute related services including managing fraud investigations, advising and executing on the exercise of …
José Cúneo, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
José Cúneo joined Kaufman Rossin in 2012 and is a principal in the Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. José performs forensic investigations of public, private, government and non-profit entities. His practice includes preparation of prospective financial information; lost profi…
David Garcia, CVA, CPA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
David Garcia is a Principal in Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory, and Valuation Services practice. David has a wide range of expertise in providing traditional audit, accounting, and business consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. His forensic accounting experience inclu…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Byron M. Brown, CPA, CFF, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Byron M. Brown joined Kaufman Rossin in 2010 and is a principal in our Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. Byron’s experience includes providing forensic investigatory and dispute related services including managing fraud investigations, advising and executing on the exercise of …
José Cúneo, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
José Cúneo joined Kaufman Rossin in 2012 and is a principal in the Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. José performs forensic investigations of public, private, government and non-profit entities. His practice includes preparation of prospective financial information; lost profi…
David Garcia, CVA, CPA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
David Garcia is a Principal in Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory, and Valuation Services practice. David has a wide range of expertise in providing traditional audit, accounting, and business consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. His forensic accounting experience inclu…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services.
She pr…
Byron M. Brown, CPA, CFF, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Byron M. Brown joined Kaufman Rossin in 2010 and is a principal in our Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. Byron’s experience includes providing forensic investigatory and dispute related services including managing fraud investigations, advising and executing on the exercise of …
José Cúneo, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
José Cúneo joined Kaufman Rossin in 2012 and is a principal in the Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. José performs forensic investigations of public, private, government and non-profit entities. His practice includes preparation of prospective financial information; lost profi…
David Garcia, CVA, CPA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
David Garcia is a Principal in Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory, and Valuation Services practice. David has a wide range of expertise in providing traditional audit, accounting, and business consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. His forensic accounting experience inclu…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services. She pr…
Byron M. Brown, CPA, CFF, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Byron M. Brown joined Kaufman Rossin in 2010 and is a principal in our Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. Byron’s experience includes providing forensic investigatory and dispute related services including managing fraud investigations, advising and executing on the exercise of …
José Cúneo, CPA, CFF, CVA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
José Cúneo joined Kaufman Rossin in 2012 and is a principal in the Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services department. José performs forensic investigations of public, private, government and non-profit entities. His practice includes preparation of prospective financial information; lost profi…
David Garcia, CVA, CPA, CFE
Principal, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
David Garcia is a Principal in Kaufman Rossin's Forensic, Advisory, and Valuation Services practice. David has a wide range of expertise in providing traditional audit, accounting, and business consulting services to clients in a variety of industries. His forensic accounting experience inclu…
Kara Stearns Sharp, CPA, CFF, CFE, CVA
Practice Leader, Forensic, Advisory and Valuation Services
Kara Stearns Sharp co-leads Kaufman Rossin’s forensic, advisory and valuation services practice, where she brings clients more than 25 years of experience in the accounting industry. She specializes in investigative and forensic accounting, due diligence, and business advisory services. She pr…
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