Consulting Engagement Experience

Representative examples of Kirsten’s engagement experience include:

Disputes

• Healthcare Company Breach of Contract Dispute (2023). Assisted in research and analysis relating to a contract dispute between a healthcare staffing company and a hospital company.
• Confidential Client (2023). Assisted in the preparation of an expert report in defense of a shareholder suit brought against a company alleging misrepresentations in financial statements and related disclosures.

Accounting Experience

• Examined and documented the federal clients’ business processes and internal controls over financial reporting. Performed an efficient risk assessment and coordinated the planned audit response, including determining the relevant risks of misstatement and financial statement level risks.
• Evaluated and tested both the design and operating effectiveness of controls within various process areas, including financial reporting and journal entries, legal liabilities, and budgetary activities.
• Reviewed client-prepared financial schedules and performed financial statement and disclosure tie-outs.
• Provided financial statement audit services to clients within the power and utilities industry, including performing substantive analytical procedures over significant accounts to identify fluctuations and determine whether the underlying transactions are properly reflected in the account balances.

• MS, Accounting, University of Virginia, USA

• BBA, Accounting, University of Miami, USA

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Washington, DC & Virginia

Language

• English (native)