BACKGROUND

Bethany Hearn has thirty-plus years of experience in public accounting including audit, tax, business valuation, litigation support, and transaction services. She has extensive experience in providing valuation and forensic accounting services to a variety of privately held companies. Bethany performs valuations of businesses, intangible assets, and various other investments for value planning, marital dissolutions, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes, bank financing, and tax purposes. Bethany is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), and holds a Certification in Financial Forensics (CFF).

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• More than 20 years of experience in the field of valuation and litigation support.

• Expert witness for business valuations and forensic matters in marital dissolutions and shareholder disputes.

• Conducts review and rebuttal of opposing expert’s reports.

• Performs shareholder agreement review and consulting.

• Assists business owners in developing a transition plan.

• Specializes in valuations in the agri-business, construction, manufacturing and distribution, and waste management industries.
  
  

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Bachelor of science in accounting, Northern Illinois University

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

• Illinois CPA Society

• AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Executive Committee, past chair

• AICPA ABV Credential Committee, past chair

• AICPA ABV Exam Task Force, past chair

• AICPA ABV CSO Task Force, past chair

• AICPA Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year 2018