FAQs

Our team includes professionals holding designations such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA),all of which are backed by significant forensic accounting experience.

Yes. Reagan FVL delivers comprehensive, court-ready reporting in forensic accounting, economic loss damages determinations, and business valuation matters. We also provide expert witness services — helping attorneys present financial evidence, explain methodologies and professional opinions, and support litigation strategies with credibility and clarity.

Our processes and procedures adhere to established professional standards of care—including the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, AICPA forensic and valuation standards, the NACVA Professional Standards, and applicable federal and state rules of procedure and rules of evidence. Each engagement undergoes rigorous internal review to ensure accuracy, consistency, and clear support for our opinions. By combining deep forensic accounting and business valuation expertise, we provide integrated analyses that are transparent, well-documented, and defensible in deposition, arbitration, and trial settings.

Reagan FVL has vast experience. We’ve been retained as expert witnesses in numerous types of litigation in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and have been admitted in courts of law as experts in Accounting, Auditing, Forensic Accounting, Financial Projections, Business Valuation, Economic Damages, Lost Profits, Income Taxes, Income Determination, CPA Malpractice Allegations, and Fraud Investigations across a broad span of industries and in various highly complex and challenging disputes. Our experience includes valuing ownership interests in private equity and hedge fund businesses, and various smaller closely held businesses. We also speak to attorneys about business valuation, fraud, and divorce litigation in Continuing Legal Education events.

Yes — our experts are experienced in providing litigation support and expert testimony across jurisdictions. We work closely with retaining legal counsel to craft strategies in both state and federal matters, including depositions, discovery support, and trial testimony.

Absolutely. Reagan FVL offers business valuation for a range of litigation contexts: family law, shareholder disputes, partnership dissolutions, buy-sell agreements, troubled-business valuations, and lost profits value diminution damages determinations. Our valuation opinions are prepared by credentialed professionals (e.g., CVA) and tailored for legal rigor.

Our professionals maintain active alignment with organizations such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Forensic and Valuation Services section of the AICPA, the National Association of Certified Valuators & Analysts (NACVA), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the Financial Expert Witness Association (FEWA), and the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama CPA Associations. These active involvements ensures our work meets nationally-recognized accounting, valuation, forensic, and expert witness standards and requirements.

We collaborate with attorneys throughout the litigation lifecycle from initial retention to document requests and review, financial investigation, financial modeling explanations, and expert reporting. Our assistance is extended to assisting in mediation, testimony preparations, and testifying at deposition, arbitration, and trial. Our approach ensures that the knowledge we gain from performing the forensic accounting procedures transfers in an understandable and communicable way to the attorneys retaining our services.

A CPA is trained and licensed in broad areas of accounting, auditing, taxation, financial reporting, business management consulting, and ethics conformity, while a CVA has specialized training in business valuation methodology, financial analysis, and litigation consulting. The CVA credential requires initial education, experience, and testing, and ongoing valuation-specific education including peer-reviewed case work. Because our professionals hold both credentials, we offer valuation opinions and litigation support that are technically sound, well-documented, and aligned with professional standards.

Both are business valuation credentials. The CVA is issued and monitored by the National Association of Certified Valuators & Analysts (NACVA). The NACVA was formed in 1991 and has been at the forefront of setting industry standards and ethics. The NACVA’s mission is to provide high-quality resources and training for its members, enabling them to enhance their skills and gain a competitive edge in an ever-evolving business landscape. Ongoing continuing education and conformity to the NACVA’s Professional Standards in performing business valuation services is required. The ABV first became available to CPAs experienced in business valuation in 2008. It is issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Similarly, the ABV requires ongoing continuing education and conformity to the AICPA’s professional standards.

Yes. We specialize in economic damage quantification (lost profits, business interruption, breach-of-contract, etc.), and business value diminution determinations in litigation settings. Our services are especially relevant in shareholder and corporate dispute matters.

Yes. Our valuation reports comport to the rigorous standards of the AICPA, NACVA, and federal and states’ Rules 26. The AICPA and NACVA professional valuation standards segregate the performance standards from the reporting standards. The performance standards apply in all valuation engagements. However, both the AICPA and the NACVA provide an exemption from the reporting standards when valuation reports are prepared for purposes of litigation. While we rarely perform valuations for tax purposes, when we do our reports comply with the IRS and other regulatory requirements. Our reports prepared for use in litigation are well written, understandable, defensible, transparent, and credible.

Reagan FVL has experience and provides services in a wide range of industries — including manufacturing, professional services, medical and dental practices, construction, real estate development and management, retirement plans, government contracts, restaurants, retail, distribution, agribusiness, automobile dealerships, and technology, among others. We are particularly skilled in litigated cases involving commercial dispute litigation, economic loss damages, lost profits, business value diminution, family law, alleged fraud investigations, and various types of financial shenanigans.

From the outset, we coordinate with counsel to identify financial issues, preserve evidence, develop expert opinions, and craft presentation materials (charts, summaries, expert reports). We stay aligned with the attorney’s strategy and make sure that our testimony and exhibits are ready for depositions and trial.

Yes. We have testified in criminal courts for both the prosecution and the defense. We have testified in civil courts for both plaintiffs and defendants.

You may call Reagan FVL at 704-376-3399 or visit our website’s “Contact Us” page to schedule a confidential consultation. Our office is located at 205 Regency Executive Park Dr., Suite 110, Charlotte, NC, 28217. Directions here.