Donna Bain Smith is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Business Valuator, and is certified in Financial Forensics. She has recently received certification in Alternative Dispute Resolution. As a financial advisor, Smith has been evaluating both for profit businesses and projects of not for profit organizations for over fifteen years, preparing reports, such as business valuations, loss calculations, funding applications, feasibility studies, cash flow projections, and business plans. She advises clients on a range of business issues, including the reasonableness of the purchase price of a business, potential funding sources, the risk factors and/or potential return of new projects, and business exit plan options.