Services
Combining expertise in accounting and data science to assist clients with data-intensive analyses of accounting issues and technical applications of GAAP
Specializing in analyses that exceed the capabilities of traditional spreadsheet programs, either due to the size or nature of the datasets involved or the methodologies required.
Recent Matters
Investigation of whistleblower claims at large pharmaceutical company on behalf of audit committee
Support for RWI claim on GAAP non-compliance on behalf of PE firm
Solvency analysis on behalf of lender in debt restructuring dispute
William Floyd, PhD, CPA
Founder and President
William Floyd is an expert in financial reporting and disclosure, research design and econometrics, and the use of large and alternative data sets in economic analyses.
Prior to founding Floyd Analytics, he was on the founding team of Pluribus Labs, a data science startup that became a quant fund following its acquisition by Golden Gate Capital. He was deeply involved in the research and processes underlying the flagship global long-only fund, which systematically measured thousands of firms’ exposures to investible themes using text data sources. He focused on accounting-based signals for the long-short fund and led firm research on economically-motivated ESG investing.
He holds a PhD in Accounting from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where his dissertation research used computational text analysis to study changes in the content of corporate disclosures around adverse accounting events.
He also holds a BBA in Accounting and a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York.