Litigation Support Internet Sources

Objectives

An earlier version of this outline was presented at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) National Conference on Advanced Litigation Services in Dallas on October 25, 2001.  It was revised for the Florida Atlantic University Forensic Accounting Conference in Ft. Lauderdale on June 10, 2004.  This outline will be updated from time to time.

Suggestions for adding or changing links are welcome.  I do not charge fees for adding links, but I do reserve the right to exclude links that in my judgment are not relevant.  Please email suggestions to will@willyancey.com

Outline

I. Forensic Accounting and Forensic Economics

Many useful links are described in  Eva Lang and Jan Tudor, Best Websites for Financial Professionals, Business Appraisers, and Accountants, Second Edition, (Wiley, 2003).

Links to Forensic Web sites

General references in forensic accounting and forensic economics at willyancey.com/forensic.htm
Forensic bibliography at willyancey.com/for_bib.htm
Forensic consultants at willyancey.com/for_cons.htm
Fraud resources at  taxsites.com/auditing.html#fraud
FAU forensic accounting program at www.masters-in-forensic-accounting.com
Money laundering and financial crimes at willyancey.com/forensic.htm#money-laundering

Valuation Databases

Financial Research Associates at  frafssb.com
Financial Valuation Group's Intellectual Property Database at fairmarketvalue.com/ipdatabase/ipdatabase.html
Online automated valuation models at  www.appraisal-network.com/avm.htm
Shannon Pratt's BVMarketData at  bvmarketdata.com
Wage and salary rates at willyancey.com/salary.htm
Salarry survey by city and occupation at salary.com

Data Analysis

Data mining and document management at willyancey.com/data-mining.htm
Sampling for financial and internal audit at willyancey.com/sampling-financial.htm
Sampling for income tax at willyancey.com/sampling-income-tax.html
Sampling for sales and use tax at willyancey.com/sampling.htm
Software for data analysis at willyancey.com/statistics.htm#software

Professional Standards

Accounting Associations at  www.taxsites.com/associations2.html
Accounting Regulatory Bodies at  www.taxsites.com/regulatory.html
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners at www.cfenet.com
Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice  (USPAP) at   https://www.appraisalfoundation.org/html/standards.asp?FileName=current_uspap

II. Legal

General Legal

Links to all areas of law at  willyancey.com/gen_law.htm
Full text of appellate court decisions and some law reviews at findlaw.com
Professional law librarian resources at  www.llrx.com

Malpractice and Professional Liability

Links to all areas of malpractice at  willyancey.com/forensic.htm#Malpractice
Accounting malpractice at accountingmalpractice.com
Class action and securities litigation at  willyancey.com/gen_law.htm#class-action

Admissibility of Evidence

Evidence and expert testimony at  willyancey.com/evidence.htm
Electronic evidence and records retention at  willyancey.com/electronic_evidence.htm
Statistical evidence at  http://willyancey.com/statistical_evidence.htm

Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 2nd Edition at http://www.fjc.gov/

III. Finding People, Firms, and Places

People

Address and telephone directories at  willyancey.com/finding.htm#Address
Credit reports at  willyancey.com/finding.htm#Credit
Email and domain name search at  willyancey.com/finding.htm#Email
Expert directories at willyancey.com/finding.htm#Experts
Faculty, university, and non-profit organization directories at willyancey.com/finding.htm#faculty-nonprofit
Family history and genealogy at willyancey.com/finding.htm#family-history
Legal and political directories at  willyancey.com/finding.htm#lawfirm_directories
Public records distributors at  willyancey.com/finding.htm#Public_Records
Public records from specific states at willyancey.com/finding.htm#States

Public records subscription service at  PublicData.com

Firms

Financial statements and other data about firms at willyancey.com/firmdata.htm
Financial quotes, indexes, and analyses at willyancey.com/quotes.htm

Public company summaries from Yahoo! Finance at finance.yahoo.com
Public and private company summaries from Hoover's Online at www.hoovers.com
 

Places

Maps at willyancey.com/finding.htm#Maps
Property appraisal records at  willyancey.com/property-records.html
Travel and Tourism at willyancey.com/travel.htm

Dallas Central Appraisal District search property data at  www.dallascad.org/SearchOwner.aspx

IV.  General References

Web searches at  willyancey.com/web_search.htm
References, such as calculators, dictionaries, and translators, at willyancey.com/web_search.htm#reference
Humor at willyancey.com/humor.htm

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