Scott M. Bouchner, CMA, AVA, CIRA, Receives The Zolfo Cooper Silver Medal Award

MIAMI—October, 2009—Berkowitz Dick Pollack & Brant Certified Public Accountants & Consultants, LLP is pleased to announce that Scott M. Bouchner, Director of Forensic and Business Valuation Services, has been awarded the 2009 Zolfo Cooper Award (Silver Medal) from the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors for obtaining one of the highest score on the CIRA examination.

Mr. Bouchner focuses his practice in business valuation, forensic accounting and management consulting. His experience includes providing litigation support services in such areas as bankruptcy, lost profit and damage analysis, securities litigation, marital dissolution, employment litigation, post merger/acquisition disputes, forensic accounting investigations, product liability claims, intellectual property disputes and preparation of pro-forma financial information and financial forecasts.

Mr. Bouchner also performs business valuations and conducts due-diligence investigations of potential merger and acquisition candidates. In addition, he has considerable experience in strategic consulting and business advisory services.

Mr. Bouchner recently co-authored the AICPA Practice Aid entitled, "Calculating Lost Profits", a publication which discusses roles the CPA may be asked to take in a lost profits damage analysis, the professional standards applicable to those services, and the basic principles and guidelines for preparing lost profit damages analysis.