Karen J. Kaseno, CPA /ABV, CVA, CFE, CFFA

Karen Kaseno graduated from California State University at Los Angeles in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounting. She is the founding partner of the firm and has been practicing in the area of litigation services since 1989. Ms. Kaseno specializes in family law and fraud investigations. She has been appointed by the family law court as an Evidence Code §730 Special Master on numerous occasions. Ms. Kaseno has also conducted several forensic investigations on fraud-related matters for both criminal and civil matters. She has been named as an expert witness on dozens of commercial litigation matters involving loss of earnings on a variety legal matters.

Over the past decade, Ms. Kaseno has been extremely active in developing and teaching within the accounting and legal professions. Ms. Kaseno has developed and taught over a half dozen courses covering many aspects of forensic accounting including the Fraudsafe™ Fraud Prevention and Investigation Five Day Training Program for CPAs. Ms. Kaseno is a founding member and instructor in NACVA’s National Matrimonial Litigation Workshop. Ms. Kaseno has been a presenter at conferences and continuing education programs throughout the United States for both CPAs and attorneys covering topics including numerous issues in family law litigation, business valuation, fraud investigations, and providing expert witness testimony. Her presentations have also been made directly to judges. In addition, Ms. Kaseno has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego, Extension.

Ms. Kaseno has been a member in good standing of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants litigation services steering committee for over ten years. She is also the former Chair of the Fraud Section of the litigation services committee. Ms. Kaseno has chaired and been on the planning committees for numerous conferences for the California Society of Certified Public Accountants Education Foundation, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. Ms. Kaseno has also served as a Board Member for the California State Board of Accountancy, Rule 69 Committee and Qualifications Committee.

Ms. Kaseno’s full resume is available upon request.

Nancy O. Gaffney, CPA, CVA

Nancy Gaffney graduated from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland in 1977 with a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Economics with a Business Concentration. In 1979, she received her Master’s of Business Administration Degree from Northwestern University in Accounting with a Finance Concentration. Ms. Gaffney joined The Kaseno CPA Firm, APC in 2003 as a Manager. Her specialties include complex separate property tracing analyses, income available for support, business valuations, and the analysis of complex financial issues for family law matters.

During her time practicing in forensic and investigative accounting, Ms. Gaffney has gained expertise in family law and commercial litigation. In the family law area, she has extensive experience performing income available for support calculations, business valuations, analysis of stock options, complex separate property tracing analyses, and apportionment of community and separate property interests pursuant to the Moore, Marsden and Bono Cases. In performing her commercial litigation duties, Ms. Gaffney has gained experience developing complex financial models used to calculate economic damages under a variety of different case circumstances.

Ms. Gaffney is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. She is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA). Her application as a Certified Valuation Analyst is currently pending before NACVA.