Dennis S Neier, CPA, CFF - Forensic Accounting Services
Dennis S. Neier is the managing director of DSN Forensic Accounting Services and is a senior advisor to the accounting and consulting firm of DGC in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Neier provides litigation consulting, forensic accounting, alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) and expert witness services to law firms and in-house counsel. Mr. Neier has provided forensic accounting and litigation consulting services for cases involving individuals and both small and large companies with an emphasis on breach of contract or fiduciary duty, royalty disputes, business interruption, purchase and sale agreement disputes, lost profits, economic damages, fraud, mass claim cases and white-collar crime. In addition, he has extensive experience in performing fraud investigations for not-for-profit organizations. He assists in all phases of the litigation process, from pre-complaint through post-trial. He also has testimony experience in a variety of forums. Mr. Neier has significant experience in the area of ADR having served as an arbitrator and mediator. He is on the commercial panel of neutrals of the American Arbitration Association and CPR and is appointed as a neutral in New York State’s Unified Court System. Mr. Neier has a significant amount of experience as an auditor (for both publicly and privately held clients) and as a business consultant. Mr. Neier has rendered extensive accounting and business consulting services to partnerships with specific attention to professional and real estate partnerships and to corporations in the real estate development and construction industries, restaurants, hotels and companies and individuals in the entertainment industry. From 1965 through 1989, while he was with S&O, he participated in and/or supervised the audits of industrial, residential, and commercial real estate limited partnerships. Mr. Neier was an adjunct professor of accounting and economics and litigation consulting and forensic accounting services at the City University of New York and at New York University where he taught courses on litigation consulting and forensic accounting services as well as other accounting courses. Prior to establishing DSN Forensic Accounting Services and joining DGC, Mr. Neier was a partner in the accounting and consulting firms of Spicer & Oppenheim (“S&O”) and Deloitte & Touche (“D&T”), a managing director in the accounting and consulting firm of American Express Tax and Business Services Inc. (“TBS”), a partner in the accounting and consulting firm of Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP (“GGK”), a managing director in the New York office of RSM McGladrey, Inc. (“RSM”), a partner in the accounting and advisor firm of EisnerAmper LLP and the Director of the Litigation Consulting, Forensic Accounting and Valuation Services practice at the accounting and advisor firm of Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP.. At EisnerAmper, Mr. Neier was the partner in charge of the New York office Forensic, Litigation and Valuation services group and was also the co-chair of that firm’s national Forensic, Litigation and Valuation Services Practice. At RSM, Mr. Neier was the associate director of the New York litigation consulting services department. At TBS he was the associate director of the New York litigation consulting department and was also the associate director of its business management services department where he provided personal tax, financial planning and business management services for individuals in the entertainment and sports industries and general accounting, auditing, royalty auditing and business consultation services to companies in the entertainment industry. At D&T he was a partner in the New York office and co-director of the firm’s New York office litigation consulting services practice. He was also co-director of the entertainment and sports accounting practice. At S&O he was a partner (1975-1989), a member of its national management committee (1982-1989), director of litigation consulting services (1985-1989, national director of technical research and review (1969-1985), chairman of the firm's commercial audit practice (1975-1985) and director of the east coast business management practice (1980-1989). Mr. Neier is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”), the AICPA’s Management Consulting Services Division, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (“NYSSCPA”), the Massachusetts State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Bar Association and the American Arbitration Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners and a diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Accounting. Besides being a CPA, he also holds a certification in Certified Financial Forensics (“CFF”). Mr. Neier is a former member of the AICPA’s SEC Practice Section Executive Committee and Advanced Litigation Services and Fraud Conference Steering Committee. He is the former Chairman of the NYSSCPA’s Financial Accounting Standards and the Specialized Accounting Principles Committees. He served as a member of the NYSSCPA’s Litigation Consulting and Support Services, Personal Financial Planning and Professional Ethics Committees. Mr. Neier has lectured on accounting and auditing, forensic accounting, and litigation consulting services subjects for the NYSSCPA, the AICPA, The Practising Law Institute, and the New York State Bar Association (“ABA”). In addition, he has coauthored the chapters on Personal Financial Statements and Forensic Accounting and Litigation Consulting Services for the Accountant’s Handbook. Mr. Neier received his BBA in accounting and economics from The City College, The City University of New York. He is certified in New York, Louisiana and Massachusetts