JAMES F. DAVIDSON, CPA, CFE, CTP, FCPA CFF, CM&AA

Certified Corporate Director
Jim Davidson is a licensed Certified Public Accountant with financial forensics specialization credentials CFF and FCPA, Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP), Certified Corporate Director, Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor (CM&AA), and (in process) Certified Management Consultant (CMC). He integrates deep experience from public accounting, auditing, and consulting and as an executive and director in private industry to provide expert advice to clients in the areas of bankruptcies, reorganizations, turnarounds, crisis restructuring, and profitability improvement; fraud, forensics, and litigation support; mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and corporate governance. With combined experience and professional qualifications, he fulfills the financial expert requirements as defined by Sarbanes-Oxley, NYSE and NASDAQ. He also serves on the Financial Executives International Committee for Small and Mid-Sized Public Companies.

Jim has served in executive positions at both public and private companies ranging from entrepreneurial to multibillion dollar firms. After ten years of accounting, auditing, and consulting for Big 4 Certified Public Accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jim transitioned to private industry. He spent over ten years as member of boards of directors and in various financial and executive positions, including president and CEO, COO, CFO, secretary-treasurer, chief accounting officer and corporate controller.

Jim has obtained diversified experience in many industries, including: finance, capital markets lending, and investing; insurance; professional services, retail/wholesale distribution; consumer products/services; food processing and packaging; industrial; general manufacturing; E-Commerce, high technology, defense, and semiconductor electronics manufacturing; energy - synthetic fuels; mining; oil and gas; real estate, construction, and building materials; agribusiness.

He primary serves middle market companies ranging $10 million to $1 billion in sales, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, merger & acquisition intermediaries, litigation attorneys and firms, bankruptcy trustees and examiners and other firms which would benefit from his expertise.

A university-certified facilitator and instructor, Jim has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in business and management, primarily relating to accounting and finance, economics, business ethics, auditing, management, and critical thinking. Jim has presented ?Corporate Transgressions and Financial Reporting Gimmickry? at professional associations such as the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner?s National Fraud Conference.

Jim is a member of the following professional associations:

• Turnaround Management Association
• Association for Strategic Planning
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors
• Institute of Management Consultants
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Financial Executives International Small and Mid-Sized Public Company Committee Member
• Financial Executives International Los Angeles and Orange County Chapters
• Financial Executives International Small and Mid-Sized Public Company Committee Member
• Forensic CPA Society
• Association for Corporate Growth
• California Society of CPAs
• Association of Certified Fraud Specialists
• National Association of Corporate Directors
  
  

Jim obtained a Master?s degree in Business with emphasis in Finance and Managerial Accounting in 1976 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from the University of California at Irvine. He has been licensed to practice public accounting since 1981.