Doug Manhart is a director in BKD’s Forensics & Valuation Services division and leads
its Dallas practice, providing forensic accounting, investigation, litigation
support services, and forensic data analytics. Doug is a Certified Fraud
Examiner (CFE).
Doug joined BKD in February, 2018 after spending the prior 5+ years at Ernst &
Young in their Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services practice. Prior to that
Doug was at FTI Consulting in their Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice.
He has over 10 years of professional services experience in investigations and
forensic analysis for clients across varying industries. He has been the lead for
dozens of proactive and reactive engagements in the US and abroad. The
majority of these have been focused on anti-bribery and corruption, internal audit
fraud/compliance monitoring, FCPA risk, and payables analytics. He has
managed investigations and developed investigative tools for several Fortune
500 companies with the goal of isolating potentially corrupt, improper, or
fraudulent activity.
Through the course of his career, Doug has had a broad range of experience
including but not limited to the following: Development of processes for
proactively monitoring the travel and entertainment expense submissions for
potentially improper/fraudulent/non-compliant transactions; Consulted internal
audit leadership as to how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their
fraud monitoring; Led efforts for funds tracing/reclamation for the receiverships
of hedge funds involved in major Ponzi Schemes; Assisted in the preparation of
numerous expert reports, including computation of economic damages involving
lost profits, lost sales and unjust enrichment; Developed tools for isolating
suspicious payments in the AP and GL systems of some of the world’s largest
companies.