Sidney Blum, CPA, CFE, F-ACFEI, CPEA, leads Stonefield Josephson’s Advisory Services practice that includes several different service lines such as Valuation, Litigation and Forensics (VLF), Internal Audit Services, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Services and Contract Compliance Services.

Sid is globally recognized as a leading authority in third party auditing with contract compliance experience in such diverse areas as royalty, channel/distribution, filmed entertainment, digital distribution, advertising, participation, residual, construction and most-favored-nation. Sid's background includes serving clients in a vast number of industries such as media & entertainment, consumer products, semi-conductor, high technology, software, manufacturing, distribution, and oil and gas. Sid also wrote the royalty audit methodology for two of the Big 4 Accounting firms.

Sid spent 12 years at Ernst & Young and KPMG, including nearly five years as a partner in the Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance services practice. He has seven years of industry experience as an internal auditor, split between Fortune 50 oil and gas companies and entertainment companies in addition to his many years as an outside service provider of internal audit services.

Professional and Civic Associations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
• Fellow - American College of Forensic Examiners
• Board of Environmental, Health & Safety Auditors
• Anti-Defamation League, Regional Board Member
• LA Stage Alliance, Board Member

Presentations/Publications

• "Effective Licensee Monitoring," Intellectual Asset Management magazine (February/March 2005)
• "Challenges in Global Licensee Monitoring," Global License! magazine (June 2007)
• "Monitoring 3rd Parties"
• "What Every Licensor Should Know About Royalty Auditing"
• "Legal Foundations of Licensing - The Royalty Audit and Accounting Issues"
• "Dealing with IP Licensees Around the World," IP Law 360 (April 2008)

Education

• California State University, Northridge, Bachelor of Science, Accounting Theory & Practice

Hobbies

• Worldwide travel (67 countries and counting)
• Road bicycling (120 miles a week)
• Home remodeling
• Russian literature
  
  

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Contact Information:
310-432-7458
sblum@sjaccounting.com
2049 Century Park East
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90067