Consultancy
Financial and Economic Management
Comprehensive analysis across financial, economic and investment fields, from cost accounting through to valuation, arbitration and expert testimony.
FEM
The economy is central to modern life. From small businesses to large corporations and public-sector departments, the current economy and its outlook are central to everything done in the world.
The wide range of expertise in financial, economic and investment fields within the association's network creates the capability to provide comprehensive analysis in financial and economic management. Depending on market demand, that analysis varies in level, micro and macro, and from one industry to another. Financial analysis for a company can go as far as cost accounting and sensitivity analysis; from a macro perspective, the same analysis across a set of active firms in an industry produces a larger picture and draws out the key points of that industry.
The association's economic and financial consulting practices provide industries, institutions, law firms, corporations and government agencies with sophisticated and comprehensible analyses of complex economic and financial issues. The unit is led by internationally renowned economists and researchers, conducts economic impact analyses of policies and contemplated actions by businesses and public agencies, advises clients, and provides support for litigation and regulatory proceedings including expert testimony.
Core service lines
- Investment, and developing feasibility reports
- Performing market studies to identify investment opportunities
- Portfolio management hedging
- Due diligence, including due diligence for merger companies
- Risk assessment
- Fundamental analysis of different industries for investment applicants
- Consulting for applicant companies entering the stock exchange
- Consulting on financing from external sources, and bankable reports
- Designing budgeting models and financial systems
- Performing cost reduction studies
- Financial engineering and financial reform
- Designing management audit systems
- Financial and economic database management
- Providing industry average financial ratios
- Study and research on concepts, modes and new methods of financial arrangement
Market economics and research
The association's economists are experts in market studies including econometric and statistical forecasting, regional and local economic forecasting, demographic analysis, economic impact studies, zoning studies, local tax policy analysis, labour economics studies, analyses of real estate markets, business damage assessments and lost wages analyses. To assist client decision making, it analyzes demand and supply factors and prepares forecasts for a variety of products and services, and has completed detailed evaluations of the market consequences of proposed or anticipated changes in market conditions across many industries and for agencies at all levels of government.
Public policy
The association studies the impact of legislation and political considerations across a wide range of issues. Clients, both government agencies and private companies, make complex decisions involving regulated industries, complicated commercial arrangements, taxation and public-private partnerships that operate at the intersection of legislative, political, regulatory and commercial considerations. The association's economic experts, many of whom have held critical positions in academia, have years of experience advising on concrete, economically defensible and workable solutions for resolving competing considerations.
Environmental economics
The association's experts helped pioneer the multidisciplinary analysis of the benefits and costs of activities affecting the environment, and have extensive experience in direct and indirect damage estimation using methodologies such as contingent valuation, hedonic estimation, travel cost measurements and input-output analysis. The unit participates extensively in environmental regulatory proceedings and litigation, and offers clients planning support for compliance with developmental, zoning and planning regulation from an environmental perspective, which has proved useful both in formulating long-term policy and in settling disputes during litigation.
Valuation
- Financial reporting valuations
- Fairness opinions and valuation opinions in respect of proposed transactions or corporate restructurings
- Tax valuations and transfer pricing
- Private equity portfolio valuations
- Intellectual property and other intangible asset valuations
- Dispute and litigation support
Claims, disputes and international arbitration
The association provides efficient and effective support to clients, courts and arbiters to resolve disputes in litigation, arbitration, expert determination or mediation, giving clear answers to questions involving finance, economics, valuation, accountancy and industry practice.
With economic disputes growing in cost and complexity, it helps companies navigate each stage of the dispute resolution process, offering independent advice and expert testimony. Its experts have years of industry experience in damage quantification, and in treaty and commercial arbitration.
End-to-end valuation and litigation support includes determining whether a claim is worth pursuing, identifying the correct approaches or methodologies for quantifying damages, evaluating claims in the context of past and future economic damages incurred, and pinpointing the exact type of expertise, evidence and documentation required.
Intellectual property and regulated industries
The association provides economics and finance advice on intellectual property matters, including expert evidence for courts and tribunals, advice on tax and transfer pricing, IP valuation, the determination of royalty rates in commercial transactions, corporate restructuring and public policy advice. The team comprises economists, econometricians and accountants, each with practical experience of intellectual property matters, and is experienced in applying quantitative techniques involving surveys and choice modelling.
In regulated industries, the association helps clients use economic and financial analysis, econometrics and network modelling to analyze complex issues of pricing, valuation and risk management. Its experts combine academic and commercial expertise in economics with strong sector knowledge of the markets in which industrial companies operate, and the engineering and operating issues they confront, to advise on the effect of regulations on global business strategy.
Capital requirements and financing analysis
The association assists financial institutions with capital reserve requirements analysis and develops statistical models to analyze account loss data. Its economists also prepare revenue and cash flow forecasts to support financing requests for local governments and businesses.