FINDING THE ECONOMIC REALITY

CFO Logistics identifies and explains economic reality when ordinary financial records, operating reports or property information do not provide the answer—whether the question involves the value of a business or property, the amount of an economic loss, or where an operating company is losing profit and cash.

FOR ATTORNEYS AND LITIGANTS

Financial records rarely arrive organized around the legal question. I help counsel determine what the available evidence supports, identify what is missing and develop an independent financial analysis that can be explained and defended.

Services include:

• Business and real estate valuation
• Lost profits and economic-damages analysis
• Construction-defect and cost-to-cure analysis
• Property-damage and diminution-in-value analysis
• Financial reconstruction and forensic accounting
• Expert-witness, deposition and trial support

FOR CONTRACTORS

A full schedule and growing backlog do not necessarily produce profit or cash. I help contractors determine which jobs, trades and departments make money after overhead, what future work must be priced at and when the resulting cash should arrive.

FOR MANUFACTURERS AND MACHINE SHOPS

I help manufacturers determine what each machine hour, part and production job actually costs; whether quoted prices recover material, labor and overhead; and which work creates—or quietly consumes—profit.

ONE UNDERLYING DISCIPLINE

These services involve different evidence, methods and deliverables, but they share one discipline: determining what the records show, what they do not show and what supportable conclusion can be developed from them.

My perspective reflects nearly five decades of experience in consulting, banking, business ownership, construction, real estate, fractional CFO work and expert-witness assignments.