KA Forensic · Kinsel Accountancy
When the Loss Becomes a Case, Every Number Needs to Hold Up.
Forensic accounting, economic-damage analysis and litigation support for attorneys, insurers and business leaders facing claims, disputes and business interruption.
Who We Are
Complex Financial Loss Requires Defensible Analysis
KA Forensic is called when financial facts must be measured, explained and supported — in front of insurers, opposing counsel, executives and the court.
KA Forensic continues the legacy of Kinsel Accountancy Corporation. We are internationally recognized experts in forensic accounting, litigation support, risk consulting, investigative accounting and claims tracking under the direction of our senior partner, Jim Kinsel, CPA, CFF, CFE.
Our mission is to provide exceptional consulting services while remaining independent and objective throughout our involvement without compromising quality. That independence is the hallmark of our work, and it is what makes the analysis hold.
Three Primary Engagement Paths
Legal and Litigation
Expert-witness support, economic damages and financial disputes.
- Expert witness testimony
- Economic damage calculations
- Binding arbitrations and depositions
- Contract and financial dispute analysis
Insurance and Claims
Business interruption, property loss and claims analysis.
- Business interruption and extra expense
- Property damage and inventory loss
- Claims tracking for insurance brokers
- Business interruption worksheets
Investigation and Exposure
Employee dishonesty, fraud and financial-risk analysis.
- Employee dishonesty quantification
- Fraud examination
- Investigative and reconstructive accounting
- Financial risk consulting
Authority in the Numbers
Forensic accounting services since 1989
Economic and accounting evaluations
As published by the firm
Figures as published by the firm. Reconfirm each figure before publishing.
Meet Jim Kinsel
James “Jim” Kinsel, CPA, CFF, CFE
Senior Partner
Jim has been providing forensic accounting services since 1989. He specializes in quantifying economic damages resulting from various natural disasters, employee dishonesty, product failure, fire, theft and more.
Jim has advised and calculated damages in many different industries worldwide with a variety of contractual arrangements, and has testified as an expert witness on many occasions — specifically in the areas of business interruption, extra expenses, inventory damages and property damage.
- Certified Public Accountant, California, License Number 86806
- Certified in Financial Forensics, administered through the AICPA
- Certified Fraud Examiner, Member Number 70675
Lineage
Built Through Generations of Forensic Experience
Jim was trained by his father, a pioneer in forensic accounting. Together they traveled the world and were internationally recognized as experts in the oil industry, handling insurance claims with valuations in the hundreds of millions.
That inheritance — method, discretion and a refusal to overstate — is what KA Forensic carries forward from Kinsel Accountancy Corporation.
Selected Experience
Three decades of catastrophic and complex loss
- 11/08/18
Woolsey Fire — Malibu
Wildfire
- 01/09/18
Montecito Mudslides
Natural catastrophe
- 12/04/17
Santa Paula — Thomas Fire
Wildfire
- 10/09/17
Sonoma Wildfires
Wildfire
- 09/10/17
Hurricane Irma
Natural catastrophe
- 10/08/16
Hurricane Matthew
Natural catastrophe
- 09/20/13
Seattle Seawall — Seawall Water Project
Business interruption
- 11/13/08
Montecito Tea Fire
Wildfire