Forensic Accountant & Business Valuation Expert Serving South Florida

Forensic accounting in South Florida spans three of the state's busiest judicial circuits and the federal courthouses that sit alongside them. Hidden-asset tracing in divorce, business valuation in shareholder and marital disputes, economic damages in commercial litigation, and fraud and embezzlement investigation are the four questions that bring attorneys here most often.

Joey Friedman, CPA, P.A. is a litigation-focused forensic accounting and business valuation firm based in Broward County and serving attorneys, businesses, and individuals across the South Florida region. The firm does not prepare income tax returns and does not provide tax planning services.

The South Florida Region: Three Circuits, One Federal District

South Florida matters are tried in three state judicial circuits and, in federal cases, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida:

The Southern District of Florida hears cases in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Fort Pierce and Key West. Engagements in this region frequently involve parties, entities or accounts in more than one of these venues at once — a business owned in one county, litigated in another, with records held somewhere else entirely.

Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support Across South Florida

Hidden Asset Tracing

Following money through business accounts, related entities, and personal accounts to establish what exists and where it went. Common in divorce and in partnership disputes where one side controlled the books.

Business Valuation Disputes

Valuation of closely held businesses for marital dissolution, shareholder and partnership disputes, and buyouts — including the normalization questions that decide most of these cases: owner compensation, discretionary expenses, related-party transactions, and customer concentration.

Economic Damages and Lost Profits

Quantifying what was lost, on a method that survives cross-examination, and identifying where the opposing calculation departs from the records it claims to rest on.

Fraud and Embezzlement Investigations

Reconstruction of what happened from the underlying records — check-kiting, misappropriation, and diversion schemes — documented so it can be presented to a court, a board, or an insurer.

Deposition and Trial Testimony

Expert testimony in state, federal and foreign courts, in depositions, mediations, arbitrations including AAA, and jury and non-jury trials, for plaintiffs and defendants alike.

Rebuttal and Opposing-Expert Review

Review of an opposing expert’s report to identify method departures, unsupported assumptions, and figures that the underlying records do not support.

Serving South Florida Counties

County-specific engagement detail is available for Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and for Fort Lauderdale. The firm also accepts engagements throughout Florida and in matters outside the state.

Discuss a South Florida Matter

Joey Friedman is a CPA accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the AICPA, with more than 25 years in accounting and forensic practice and an expert witness practice serving attorneys and litigants nationwide since 2014. To discuss a matter, call 954-282-9615 or use the contact form.