Edward Bechold is a Partner in the New York City and New Jersey Assurance Services departments and a member of the SEC Practice and Transaction Services groups. Mr. Bechold has more than 15 years’ experience providing assurance and business advisory services to publicly-traded companies and closely-held businesses with specialties in business combinations, percentage of completion accounting, share based compensation, financial instruments, reverse mergers and SEC reporting. Mr. Bechold serves as a liaison between the Firm and its clients and manages numerous engagement teams. He works closely with chief financial officers and controllers to assess business and financial reporting risks, internal controls, quality of earnings and assets, and liquidity issues as a basis for identifying critical risk and opportunities for improvement.