Lari Masten

ABV, CFF, CVA, ABAR, MAFF

Lari Masten focuses her professional time on business valuation, litigation, and consulting services as they apply to both private and public companies.  She moved to Denver, Colorado, from Lubbock, Texas, in September of 2000 and has been in public accounting since 1987. She has performed business valuations, economic damage calculations, purchase price allocations, and goodwill impairment testing for companies operating in a variety of industries including life sciences, personal/professional services, exploration and production of natural resources, manufacturing and distribution processes, real estate development and management, and agriculture-related service sectors.  She has been qualified as an expert witness, and her valuations, lost profits and damages calculations expert witness testimony have been for purposes of marital dissolution, estate and gift tax planning, damages, lost profits, bankruptcy, contract disputes, buy-sell agreements, purchase/sale transactions, goodwill impairment, and related matters. Ms. Masten has written numerous articles relevant to her areas of expertise.  She has been an invited guest speaker for various organizations on topics salient to the organization’s focus involving valuation standards compliance, business valuation fundamentals and advanced topics, litigation, estate planning/wealth retention, marital dissolution, and business valuation case analysis.  In addition, she is an instructor for the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts™ (NACVA®) National Training and Development Team, which presents throughout the country approximately 14 weeks per year.  In this capacity, she teaches days four and five of NACVA’s week long Business Valuation Training Center, The Market Approach, Case Analysis, Special Purpose Valuations, and The Valuation Process: Facts to Conclusion.  Successful completion of this training center, and the related examination process, results in the participants’ receipt of their business valuation credential.  Ms. Masten served in the elected position of Chairman for NACVA’s Education Quality Assurance Board from 2010–2013 and as a member of the editorial board to the National Litigation Consultants’ Review™. She is a contributing member of the editorial advisory board to the  Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, and is an officer of the Colorado NACVA State Chapter.  Ms. Masten received a Master of Science in Accounting from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and is a licensed CPA in the states of Texas and Colorado.  She holds the following designations: Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF®) through the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants® (AICPA®); and the Certified Valuation Analyst® (CVA®) and Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF®) designations from NACVA.