Jim Ward is a Director of the Stonefield Josephson Valuation, Litigation & Forensic Group. Jim is both a CPA and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). He specializes in the areas of corporate restructurings, insolvency, business bankruptcy and commercial litigation. His practice also includes merger and acquisition assignments, primarily for buyers, lenders and other investors. Jim has over 20 years of experience assisting clients and counsel involved in business problems, disputes and litigation. He provides clients with an important blend of technical expertise and a practical knowledge of the real world. Jim has assisted clients in negotiations and settlement discussions, and has provided deposition and trial testimony.

Jim's experience includes consultation with counsel and management on a wide variety of accounting, financial and business issues. These engagements included lost profits and damage analysis; fraud investigations; financial analysis of companies, divisions and product lines; incremental cost analysis; profitability studies; pricing studies; financial forecasting; damage exposure analysis; specialized accounting issues; intellectual property valuation, and more. These issues have arisen in matters involving mergers and acquisitions; environmental actions, breach of contract claims, construction claims, dealer/distributor termination actions, fraud investigations, intellectual property disputes, lender liability actions, and workout situations, among others. He has particularly extensive experience in many industries including gaming, commercial and consumer finance, entertainment, consumer electronics, manufacturing, distribution, government contracting, food processing, farming, the dairy industry, and real estate syndication.

Prior to joining Stonefield Josephson, Jim was a director in the Forensic Accounting Group of LECG, LLC. He was also a partner in Parks, Palmer, Turner & Yemenidjian, LLP, where he was responsible for the accounting and auditing, litigation support and business reorganization practices. Jim's non-CPA experience includes serving as the vice president and chief financial officer of a major steel distribution company. He has also served as a director and chairman of the Audit Committee of a nationally recognized and publicly traded manufacturing company. As part of his practice, Jim has served in various senior executive roles in debtor operations, including president and chief executive officer of a franchiser operating a seventy-five store chain, Insolvency Consultant to a $1 billion dairy company, insolvency consultant to a nationally recognized security services company, administrator of a significant west coast real estate investment company, and operating officer of a major food processing company.

Professional and Civic Associations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• California Society of Certified Public Accountants
• Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors
• American Bankruptcy Institute, the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees

Presentations

• Contributing author of How to Value Your Business and Increase Its Potential — McGraw-Hill
• Turning Out the Lights With Out Getting Scrooged, Liquidations and Other Holiday Cheer — Turnaround Management Association
• Various internal and external presentations on computer and statistical auditing — Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.

Education

• California State University, Northridge, Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Finance

Hobbies

• Tennis
• Sailing
• Opera
• And especially, New York Yankee baseball

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Contact Information:
310-432-7489
jward@sjaccounting.com
2049 Century Park East
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90067