Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy is a Managing Director at CBIZ in the Forensic Consulting Group. His experience in public accounting includes planning, organizing, administering, and supervising all phases of audits and other financial engagements as an auditor for two of the largest public accounting firms in the world, serving both regional and national clients in the leasing, real estate, retail, manufacturing, and legal industries, as well as nonprofit entities.

Brian’s experience since leaving public accounting includes performing all manner of consulting services in the areas of forensic accounting and litigation support services in connection with trustee proceedings, securities violation actions involving some of the largest public and private companies and their accounting firms (including cases involving Rite Aid, one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history, Wilmington Trust, Petrobras S.A., Lehman Brothers, WorldCom, Inc., Tyco, Inc., Household International, Inc. and Flowserve, Inc), and in a “pro-bono” capacity in matters relating to alleged human rights violations by two of the largest multination oil and gas companies in the world, as well as in connection with shareholder derivative claims, Federal false claims, and other litigation.

Brian has led various complex engagements from their inception through Federal and/or state trials, including providing services such as consulting on accounting and auditing standards, financial statement misstatements, SEC reporting, the computation of damages (including in matters relating to various multinational pharmaceutical companies with the U.S. Government and certain state Attorney General Offices, such as Texas, West Virginia, Missouri, New York and Iowa), and investigating fraud allegations of fraud, misuse, and misappropriation. Such services include participation in drafting or responding to complaint allegations involving accounting and auditing standards, consulting with counsel regarding accounting, auditing, and fraud-related issues, the review of documents and related analyses, assessing the financial statement impact of accounting errors and misstatements, assessing abuse, misuse, and misappropriation within organizations, assisting counsel in preparation for deposition, authoring declarations and expert reports in the context of litigation, assisting counsel in preparation for trial, and providing expert testimony in deposition and trial.

Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) – Associate Member
• Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia