Caroline Van Alst is a Director in the Litigation and Forensic Consulting Services Group in the San Francisco office of Hemming Morse, Inc. Her forensic accounting experience includes fraud investigation, construction disputes, complex contract disputes, shareholders and partnership disputes, damage analysis and expert-witness testimony. Her work has covered a wide range of industries and types of businesses, including agriculture, financial institutions, automotive dealerships, healthcare and residential/industrial/commercial construction. Prior to joining the Litigation Group at HMI in 1995, Caroline served for four years as a financial and compliance auditor of labor union trust funds in the Employee Benefits Group at HMI. These unions included carpenters, sheet-metal workers, teamsters, lithographers, and painters and tapers. Her work included communication with labor/management trustees, reviews of bargaining-unit agreements and construction business records, calculations of damages, and trial testimony. Caroline is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of several professional organizations. She has served as chair of the San Francisco Chapter of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants Litigation Consulting Services Section and as a member of the Society’s Litigation Consulting and Dispute Resolution Services Steering Committee. Caroline holds both a B.S. in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Finance, from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and an M.S. in Accounting from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, where she received the Edmund Celeski “Outstanding Graduate” award. 

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