Valuations in Litigation Matters

Bethany Hearn is a Principal CLA with more than 30 years of public accounting experience. She has spent the last 21 years focused on providing valuation and forensic accounting services to owners of privately-held companies. Bethany performs valuations of businesses and intangible assets for a variety of purposes including tax, merger and acquisitions, shareholder disputes, marital dissolutions, and bank financing. In addition to valuation services, Bethany provides business succession planning services to business owners and has served as an expert witness for valuations in shareholder disputes and marital dissolutions in Illinois, Michigan and Washington. Bethany regularly speaks on valuation topics to professional organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”). Bethany is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a degree in Accountancy. She is a licensed CPA in the state of Illinois and is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Bethany has been active with the AICPA for several years teaching through webinars, at the national forensic and valuation conferences and the national business valuation school, and serving on the ABV Credential Committee and ABV Exam Task Force for the last three years. Bethany began a three-year term as Chair of the ABV Credential Committee in January 2018.