Income tax evasion and money laundering are both widespread and costly. Feige and Cebula (2011) estimate that tax evasion costs the United States Treasury approximately $500 billion in lost revenue per year. Murphy (2012) and Schneider, Raczkowski, and Mroz (2015) estimate the cost approaches $1 trillion per year in the European Union alone. This lost tax revenue strangles services, swells budget deficits, places an unfair burden on honest taxpayers, and hurts the general welfare by distortin...

BVA Group’s Alexander Walther presented at the TXCPA’s 2021 Forensics conference on best practices when conducting engagements that cross international borders. During the presentation, Alexander and his co-panelist discussed approaches to address various obstacles that can arise in international disputes and financial investigations. Areas of discussion included (1) types of international disputes and financial investigations that CPAs may encounter, (2) how local laws and regula...

After serving a three-year term on the AICPA’s CFF Credential task force, the AICPA appointed BVA Group’s Alexander Walther to its Forensic and Litigation Services Committee. The Forensic and Litigation Services Committee supports the AICPA by providing technical and educational guidance to CPAs in public practice or in the private sector who provide or seek to provide forensic accounting services and by monitoring matters that impact CPA’s ability to provide forensic accoun...

BVA Group congratulates Alexander Walther on his election to the TXCPA’s Board of Directors as a Director at Large with a term of June 2021 through May 2024. After serving as Chair of the TXCPA’s Business Valuations, Forensic and Litigation Services Committee for three years, TXCPA members nominated Alexander for a position on the TXCPA’s Board of Directors. Members of the TXCPA elected Alexander Walther to the Board of Directors in the 2021 TXCPA election cycle.

Alexander Walther recently presented on a TXCPA webinar discussing how COVID-19 has affected the role of expert witnesses and the delivery of testimony.  Alexander and his co-panelists addressed a number of topics including, but not limited to, discovery considerations, tips and tricks when using ZOOM or similar applications, the new role technology may play in future depositions and trials, and potential pitfalls and traps to be aware of when testifying remotely.

BVA Group’s Alexander Walther co-presented at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) annual Forensic & Valuation Services Conference.  He presented on the various methodologies and components that are often utilized when building economic damage models to help attendees better understand how the various pieces of an economic damages model come together to form a credible model.

In the 2019 Texas’ Best survey, Texas Lawyer and its readers named BVA Group the leader for Business Valuation Firm, Corporate Investigations Provider, End-to-End Litigation Consultant, Expert Witness Provider, and Financial Forensics Provider.

BVA Group's Alex Walther served as a panelist during mock depositions hosted by the Houston Young Lawyers Association as part of their CLE Boot Camp Series at the JW Marriott in Houston, Texas. Walther joined fellow panelists Alvin Adjei of Burritt | Adjei, PLLC and Nancy Davis of Bracewell to address topics including how to avoid common pitfalls and how to clarify evidentiary sufficiency and burdens of proof.

BVA is proud to congratulate Alexander Walther on co-authoring the AICPA’s newly released Forensic and Valuation Services Practice Aid, Calculating Lost Profits, which updates and replaces the prior version released in 2006. The Practice Aid provides in-depth discussion of key issues relevant to lost profits calculations, examples of the types of documents typically considered in the calculation of lost profits, and a new hypothetical business case study illustrating the pract...

Laurie-Leigh White continues to serve as a leading expert, conducting lively discussion on a variety of topics. Her recent speaking engagements include the TSCPA Forensic, Litigation, and Valuation Services Conference; the Louisiana Association for Justice Last Chance CLE, the Houston CPA Society Tax Expo, and the Southwest ESOP Association's Spring Conference.