Mercer Capital is pleased to announce that Karolina Calhoun, CPA, ABV, CFF has been reappointed to her 3rd term on the AICPA Business Valuations Committee.
The goal of the AICPA Business Valuations (BV) Committee is to provide technical and educational guidance to CPAs and other valuation professionals who provide or seek to provide valuation services and to monitor matters that impact their ability to provide valuation services (for example, competition, legislation, regulation, trends in the profession). To promote the relevance of the valuation profession and increase the awareness of, as well as growth and demand for, professionals who provide these services and to enhance the quality of the services provided by the profession.
Karolina Calhoun, Senior Vice President, has been involved with hundreds of valuation and litigation support engagements in a diverse range of industries on local, national, and international levels. Before joining Mercer Capital, Karolina was a Senior Auditor at EY (Ernst & Young) in their Audit and Assurance Services practice. As a member of Mercer Capital’s Litigation Group, she provides valuation and forensics services for family law, gift & estate planning, commercial litigation, transactions (M&A), and further matters related to privately held businesses, dissenting shareholders, intellectual property, personal goodwill, etc. With her forensics accreditation, she provides economic and financial damages studies, asset tracing, lost profits, and lifestyle analyses. Karolina also regularly contributes to Mercer Capital’s Family Law Valuation and Forensic Insights monthly newsletter.
She served as the 2020 and 2021 Valuation Chair of the AICPA’s Forensic and Valuation Services Conference Committee and was a member of the AICPA’s CFF Exam Writing Task Force. In 2018, she received the Forensic and Valuation Services (FVS) Standing Ovation award, presented by the AICPA to professionals for significant contributions in their specialty areas and in their communities. In February 2022, Karolina was invited and admitted to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) Foundation, Forensic & Business Valuation Division, a prestigious division comprised of less than 35 national professionals. Prior to joining Mercer Capital, Karolina was a Senior Auditor at EY (Ernst & Young) in their Audit and Assurance Services practice.
