Paul DeBoer is a managing director with Baker Tilly’s forensic, litigation and valuation services practice. He has been involved exclusively in the field of forensic accounting for the past three decades. Paul's background and common-sense approach allows him to help clients navigate complex financial investigations, legal matters and insurance claims.
Paul has experience in the measurement of losses in relation to insurance investigations and has been involved in a variety of litigation matters. He has worked on cases across the United States, including those involving investigative auditing, financial research, damages evaluation and litigation support.
- Business interruption and extra expense
- Subrogation
- Fraud and fidelity
- Builder’s risk
- Construction defect
- Lost profits
- Personal injury/wrongful death
- Employment disputes
Paul works to provide clarity to his clients and appreciates the importance of providing an independent expert opinion on matters in which he is retained.
- An employee at a scrap metal company perpetrated fraud when he suggested a vendor pay in gold coins and then took some of the coins for himself. We were engaged to quantify the loss to determine the scope of the damage. The employee was subsequently arrested
- After a 30-year-old zookeeper suffered a fatal accident a wrongful death suit was filed. We calculated the lifetime earning potential of the zookeeper
- Quantifying damages and losses following several major hurricanes, including hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Harvey, Irma, Florence and Michael
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), member
- Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants, member
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, member
- Paul has been retained as an expert witness and has given both deposition and trial testimony in litigation matters in state and federal court. Many of his litigation matters have been settled before trial
- Accredited in Business Valuation, AICPA
- Certified in Financial Forensics, AICPA
- Certified Fraud Examiner
