Educational & Training — Based upon the academic training and prior professorial background of Dr. Schilit, FSD can be thought as an educational driven company. Services may take the form of helping with interpreting new accounting standards or computer driven screening for aggressive accounting practices to formal seminars on shenanigans related to earnings manipulation, cash flows, and creative and misleading metrics used by management.
Portfolio Monitoring — Mutual fund companies and other investment managers rely upon us to help monitor their securities for potentially damaging news reported in SEC filings, press releases, and third-party documents (i.e., litigation matters) to help them identify problem situations before suffering losses.
Forensic Due Diligence — A forensic "swat team" will perform a detailed review of available financial statements, other pertinent company issued documents, third party documents, and interviews to ferret out problems with management or the company's financial reporting practices.
Screening & Early Warnings of Financial Shenanigans — Any stakeholder (i.e., investors, creditors, auditors, board members, and regulators), yearns to find early signs of management fiddling with the numbers to either avoid losses or protect the public interest. We have performed "autopsies" on over one hundred public companies that engaged in financial shenanigans and we have documented both key lessons learned and screens to detect other companies with similar high-risk profiles. Our screening model helps us identify companies that then go through an extensive review and the results are then published and disseminated to our clients.
Portfolio Monitoring — Mutual fund companies and other investment managers rely upon us to help monitor their securities for potentially damaging news reported in SEC filings, press releases, and third-party documents (i.e., litigation matters) to help them identify problem situations before suffering losses.
Forensic Due Diligence — A forensic "swat team" will perform a detailed review of available financial statements, other pertinent company issued documents, third party documents, and interviews to ferret out problems with management or the company's financial reporting practices.
Screening & Early Warnings of Financial Shenanigans — Any stakeholder (i.e., investors, creditors, auditors, board members, and regulators), yearns to find early signs of management fiddling with the numbers to either avoid losses or protect the public interest. We have performed "autopsies" on over one hundred public companies that engaged in financial shenanigans and we have documented both key lessons learned and screens to detect other companies with similar high-risk profiles. Our screening model helps us identify companies that then go through an extensive review and the results are then published and disseminated to our clients.