Roman L. Weil, Peter B. Frank, Christian W. Hughes, Michael J. Wagner
Hardcover
1200 pages
February 2007
From the Publisher:
Litigation support is a rapidly growing new service for CPAs and other financial experts. As firms of all sizes look for ways to take advantage of this new business area, financial experts must learn or enhance the skills and knowledge necessary for providing clients with superior litigation support services.
A joint project between PricewaterhouseCoopers and top experts in the field–economists, accountants, and lawyers–the Litigation Services Handbook brings you up to speed on trial preparation and testimony presentation, deposition, direct examination, and cross-examination. Newly-updated and revised with the latest information on issues and developments in the field, the Third Edition covers current environments, the process itself, different types of cases, proving damages and practical considerations of court appearances, and even the way rapidly developing technology has affected the practice of litigation services. In addition to addressing important developments affecting the accounting practice, the book examines issues raised when calculating both prejudgment and postjudgment interest on damage awards as well as relevant statutes and interest rates on damages.
Authoritative and highly practical, the Litigation Services Handbook, Third Edition is an essential guide for any financial expert building a practice in this lucrative new area, the lawyers who hire them, and litigants who benefit from their efforts.
Contents Include:
- PART I: THE LITIGATION ENVRIONMENT.
- Chapter 1. The Role of the Financial Expert in Litigation Services.
- Chapter 2. Causation Issues in Expert Testimony.
- Chapter 3. The Economics in Accounting for Litigation.
- Chapter 4. Alternative Dispute Resolution.
- PART II: DAMAGES TECHNQUES.
- Chapter 5. Statistical Estimation of Incremental Cost from Accounting Data.
- Chapter 6. Econometric Analysis.
- Chapter 7. Estimating the Cost of Capital.
- Chapter 8. Ex Ante versus Ex Post Damages Calculations.
- Chapter 9 Prejudgment Interest.
- Chapter 10. The Flaw of Averages in Law and Accounting.
- Chapter 11. Valuing Losses in New Businesses.
- Chapter 12. Business Interruption Insurance claims.
- Chapter 13. Business Valuation.
- Chapter 13. Appendix : Adjusted Present Value (APV) Method.
- Chapter 14. Lost earnings of Persons.
- Chapter 15. Punitive Damages.
- Chapter 16. Tax Treatment of Damages Awards.
- PART III: LITIGATION TOOLS.
- Chapter 17. Data Management.
- PART IV: CIVIL LITIGATION.
- Chapter 18. Federal Securities Acts and Areas of Expert Analysis.
- Chapter 19. Accountant Liability.
- Chapter 20. Economic Analysis of Nonpatent Intellectual Property Rights and damages Measures.
- Chapter 21. Intellectual Property Damages in the Entertainment Industry.
- Chapter 22. Patent Infringement Damages.
- Chapter 23. License Compliance: Performing Royalty Examinations.
- Chapter 24. Antitrust.
- Chapter 25. Disputes in Merger & Acquisition Transactions.
- Chapter 26. Construction Claims.
- Chapter 27. Quantifying Damages in real Estate Litigation.
- Chapter 28. The Troubled Business and Bankruptcy.
- Chapter 29. Alter Ego.
- Chapter 30. Employment Litigation.
- Chapter 31. Federal Contract Disputes.
- PART V: FAMILY LAW.
- Chapter 32. Valuation and Division of Marital Property.
- Chapter 33. Child and Spousal Support Award.
- Chapter 34. Marital Dissolution: Professional Goodwill and Related Intangibles.
- Chapter 35. Marital Dissolution: Tracing and Apportionment of Assets.
- Chapter 36. Marital Dissolution: tax Considerations.
- PART VI: CRIMINAL CASES.
- Chapter 37. Tax Fraud.
- PART VII: INVESTIGATIONS.
- Chapter 38. Financial Statement Investigation.
- Chapter 39. International Investigations.
MICHAEL J. WAGNER is a licensed attorney and CPA in the State of California.
PETER B. FRANK is Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
