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Oct 9, 2026
When the Numbers Don't Add Up
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9:56Chris DavisGUEST
In the case that we're talking about today, um, the majority of the financial evidence I relied upon were the publicly available SEC filings, the relevant ones in this case, and there were many.
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10:09Chris DavisGUEST
So the Twitter filings, and then Elon Musk's Form S-4, which those Form S-4s for-- it's a general SEC form that sets forth the number of shares owned by a shareholder in a particular publicly held company, uh, to the extent it's applicable.
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10:26Chris DavisGUEST
There's a threshold where you have to keep that, you have to report that.
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10:31Chris DavisGUEST
Um, and, and one of the important skill set the forensic accountant can offer in this case is, as you might guess, is, is to simplify that information.
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10:42Chris DavisGUEST
So going back to methodology, we do all the analysis, but keeping in mind, in the end, it has to be simple enough to be ready for court presentation, for example.
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10:57Chris DavisGUEST
So I had to first review, in this case, several, many voluminous relevant SEC filings to understand the agreement between the buyer and the seller of Twitter, because that became relevant to one of the other assignments that we're not talking about today, which relates to the funding.
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11:17Chris DavisGUEST
Uh, and as I mentioned, Musk's SEC Form S-4s were important in order for me to determine one of the other assignments, which was how many shares needed to be sold to equate to the cash needed to come up with a purchase price.
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11:32Chris DavisGUEST
I'm being kind of verbose right now, but part of that has to do with being clear with the assignment because we don't wanna shortcut the-- some of the language.