General Background

Mr. Gottschalk has over twenty years experience in financial litigation support and has led hundreds of damage/loss quantification, investigative accounting, and valuation assignments both in Canada and abroad.  He has been accepted as an expert witness by both the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice. Mr. Gottschalk has been at the core of the development of standards of practice in forensic accounting in Canada since its inception, and has served as Chair of the Standards Committee of the CICA’s Alliance for Excellence in Investigative and Forensic Accounting.


Education

Bachelor of Commerce – University of the Witwatersrand – 1983  (South Africa)

Bachelor of Accounting – University of the Witwatersrand – 1984  (South Africa)

Chartered Accountant – 1989

Chartered Business Valuator – 1994

Designated by the CICA as an expert in Investigative and Forensic Accounting – 2001


Professional Status

Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario

Member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants

Member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators


Professional History

LBC International – 2010 to present

Gottschalk Forensic Accounting and Valuations  – 2003 to 2010 (Principal)

Grant Thornton LLP – 1998 to 2003 (Partner)

Ernst & Young – 1991 to 1998

KPMG Lindquist Holmes – 1983 to 1991


Experienced in most forms of commercial loss and valuation work, including:


  1. -Financial Investigation

  2. -Damage Quantification

  3. -Business Valuations

  4. -Shareholder Disputes

  5. -Broker Negligence

  6. -Matrimonial

  7. -Management Fraud

  8. -Business Interruption

  9. -Income Assessments

  10. -Employee Fraud

  11. -Personal Injury

  12. -Limited Critiques


Industry Experience

Mr. Gottschalk has analyzed the operations of a broad spectrum of industries including:


  1. -Real Estate

  2. -Construction

  3. -Government

  4. -Financial

  5. -Industrial

  6. -Health care

  7. -Communications

  8. -Manufacturing

  9. -Not-for-Profit

  10. -Technology

  11. -Distribution

  12. -Professional liability

  13. -Transportation

  14. -Food processing

  15. -Employment

  16. -Entertainment

  17. -Petrochemicals

  18. -Import / Export


Seminars and Presentations

Mr. Gottschalk is a regular public speaker, frequent author, and has co-authored publications for the IFA Alliance, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Association of Certified Forensic Investigators of Canada.  Mr. Gottschalk is currently co-editor of the Commercial Litigation Review (Butterworths).


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