He is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) with more than 40 years of finance, management and accounting experience in a variety of industries – as an expert witness, a CFO in private industry, and a manager with Price Waterhouse. Barnes has taught courses for The National Judicial College, AICPA, Price Waterhouse, Hastings College of Law, and the College of Advocacy. He has been a speaker at AICPA’s National Business Valuation Conferences and the CalCPA Education Foundation’s Advanced Business Litigation Institutes. Barnes has received awards from both AICPA and the Education Foundation for his work in business valuation education."