DEBORAH DICKSON

SMITH DICKSON

Deborah Dickson founded Smith Dickson, Certified Public Accountants, LLP, 30 years ago and continues to serve as the managing partner. Her experience includes forensic accounting and expert testimony, tax, and consulting.

Dickson provides forensic accounting, litigation support services and expert witness testimony with an emphasis on business disputes including fraud and embezzlement, intellectual property, real estate, trust and estate, employment, and personal injury. She works as a forensic expert witness in Federal, State, Probate, and Family Law Courts; in arbitrations; and as a court appointed referee providing asset and fraudulent expense tracing, economic damage analysis; lost profits and unjust enrichment calculations; forensic accounting; business valuations; financial/tax records analysis; and expert testimony.

Dickson personally handles the tax and accounting matters for high-net-worth clients and business owners – advising on strategic business planning, tax planning and compliance, bank financing negotiations, and financial statement presentation. She is frequently involved with due diligence and structuring of business buy/sell deals. She is a popular speaker on subjects such as tax planning and buying/selling businesses.

Dickson began her career as an auditor for Deloitte (formerly Touche Ross) and subsequently accepted an offer to run the Entrepreneurial Services Division at PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly Coopers & Lybrand).

Contact Dickson at (949) 553-1020, www.smithdickson.com.