The Consulting Team at Master, Sidlow & Associates, P.A.,
helps clients run their businesses more efficiently and more profitably
by helping them define their goals, building strategies to reach
those goals, and then keeping them on track to achieve their goals.
Business Valuation
For What It’s Worth
When it’s time to buy or sell a business, dissolve a professional
partnership or marriage, or place a value on holdings for estate
and gift tax purposes, a guess is not good enough. You need precise
figures, and our Certified Valuations Analysts’ experience
ensures you will get just that. Our CVAs, teamed with our accounting,
tax, and consulting specialists, provide reliable valuations for
litigation, merger & acquisition, tax and accounting purposes.
And, our team is experienced in providing expert testimony in Delaware
and Pennsylvania.
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Why
use a CVA— Certified Valuation Analyst?
The Certified Valuation Analyst accreditation is a statement
to the business, professional and legal community that an
individual has attained a high level of knowledge in business
valuations as established by the National Association of Certified
Valuation Analysts (NACVA). The CVA is an elite accreditation
for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) who are the most qualified
professionals to provide business valuation services.
Through extensive training, combined with experience in tax,
auditing, accounting for small businesses and financial analysis,
CVAs have the necessary background for dealing with the complexities
involved in providing business valuation services. To become
certified by NACVA, the candidate is required to successfully
complete a rigorous training and/or testing process and maintain
professional education annually.
Business valuations are necessary in many situations of need
or adversity, including:
- Sale of a business
- Mergers or acquisition
- Split-ups and spin-offs
- Initial public offerings (IPOs)
- Allocation of acquisition price
- Adequacy of life insurance
- Liquidation or reorganization
- Litigation support
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Forensic Accounting
Thou Shall Not Steal
Fraud Prevention
Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco, World Com. What do these names evoke?
Deceitful employees. Greed. Fraud.
Whether fraud happens on a small scale or at an Enron level, it
puts your company’s reputation on the line and can be financially
devastating. Business owners cannot turn a blind eye to their surroundings.
Owners must keep abreast of financial transactions, personnel, trade
secrets and the environment. Fraudulent transactions can happen
at any level: the purchasing agents, sales persons, vendors, subcontractors,
clerks, and CEOs.
Embezzlement has been committed since ancient times when records
were scribed onto stone tablets to account for transactions. If
caught cheating, the violator was punished by death. Today, companies
have lost billions of dollars by misappropriation of assets.
Employees and associates are only human. And throughout history
humans have given into temptation when the circumstances are ripe.
The average employee defalcation is between $100,000 and $200,000
and studies have shown that as many as 33% of all employees steal.
This does not only happen to Fortune 500 companies. Wherever there
is temptation, employee fraud will occur. Owners need to know how
to protect their assets and their future.
Internal control is the basic component of safeguarding assets.
It encompasses methods and processes to promote reliable data and
guard against theft.
Because business owners cannot afford to be victims of employee
fraud, Master, Sidlow & Associates, P.A. offers your organization
a fraud prevention review. We have designed interviews and questions
that will evaluate your risk of fraud. Embezzlement can occur, but
with the implementation of controls to reduce the vulnerability
to fraud, you will be able to move forward with your business success.
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Why
use a CFE — Certified Fraud Examiner?
While fraud has been in existence for ages, perhaps at no
time has it been more prevalent than now. In today’s
era of specialization, Certified Fraud Examiners are widely
recognized as experts in the anti-fraud field. They have the
expertise to resolve allegations of fraud from inception to
disposition, gather evidence, take statements, write reports,
testify to findings, and assist in the prevention and detection
of fraud.
The CFE designation is awarded to applicants who have a reputation
for high moral character and the proven expertise to detect,
prevent and investigate a wide range of fraudulent conduct.
CFE’s agree to abide by a code of professional ethics
established by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Most major U.S. corporations, businesses and government agencies
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Litigation Support
The Scales of Justice
In our litigious society, the verdict often depends on who puts
the best experts in the witness box. Master, Sidlow & Associates’
CPAs are experienced in developing sound evidence and delivering
it so the court and jury can understand it. Our areas of expertise
include damage measurement and quantification, economic loss analysis,
marital dissolution, contract disputes, business separations, opposing
expert report analysis and rebuttal, and fair value determination
in dissenting shareholder or oppression actions.
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