Mr. Harris assists with financial analysis, forensic accounting, business valuation, damages, and other advisory engagements involving complex financial issues. His work includes analyzing financial statements, accounting records, transaction data, tax returns, and other financial information; tracing funds and reconstructing financial activity; researching companies and industries; and preparing financial models and schedules.
Mr. Harris also assists with identifying financial trends, inconsistencies, and other issues relevant to an engagement, and supports the preparation of reports, exhibits, and analyses used in litigation, disputes, investigations, valuation matters, and other advisory engagements. His work often requires a flexible, cross-disciplinary approach involving elements of forensic accounting, valuation, damages, financial investigation, and financial analysis.
Mr. Harris is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and brings experience working with financial and compliance data, including the use of Excel and other accounting systems.
Derk has provided professional services for a wide variety of purposes and in a wide variety of matters. This variety is because the foundational principles in forensic accounting, valuation, and economic damages can be appropriately applied in many different situations, the following attempts to broadly summarize the different types of matters he worked on during his career:
