Cristal is the Director of Forensic Disputes and Investigation with Alvarez and Marsal, a global professional services firm. Cristal’s job involves financial and accounting analysis involving commercial disputes.
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>> My name is Krystal Veron [assumed spelling] and I am a director with Alvarez and Marsals, Forensic Disputes and Investigations Group, here in Washington DC. Alvarez and Marsals, just so you know, it's an international consulting firm that among other services, it provides analytical and investigative services for major law firms and corporate council or companies that are in some kind of financial or dispute. My job basically entails doing some kind of financial or accounting analysis in a complex commercial dispute. So, for example I do things, such as economic damage quantifications. I do business evaluations. And then I do things such as forensic accounting investigations, when there are some allegations of wrong doing, such as fraud or money laundering. So, you know, a typical day for me starts probably around 6 in the morning or so and trying to get out of my house and coming into the business. And you know, typically the things that we do from the morning to the afternoon is we're always like in some kind of meeting or we are answering e-mails, we're working very closely with our clients to try to find solutions for the kinds of disputes that they have. And so, we are typically working in teams within A and M. And we are either at the clients side, working with a client, if we we're doing an investigation, for example or we would be working in the office, if we were doing like an economic damages case, where we get all the data from the client. And we're typically just building models or doing some kind of analysis to prepare a report before we were to go to trial, for example.
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