Auditing

January 4, 2021 

Richard Laviña, CPA – 2020 20 Under 40 Honoree CEO and Co-Founderwww.Taxfyle.com Career Highlights: After earning my degree in accounting and working briefly at a CPA firm,  Laviña landed a coveted gig at one of the Big Four accounting firms, as an auditor for PwC. There, he saw a big opportunity in the market that...…

December 27, 2020 

Jessica E. McClain, CPA, CISA, PMP, CGFM – 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree Controller, Brand USAhttps://www.thebrandusa.com/ Career highlights: Spent 11 years in public accounting Currently Controller of NFP association Guest of ‘Where Accountants Go” podcast Guest on CPA Diversity Talk Series Panelist at the MACPA 2020 CPA Innovation Summit in December 2020 Panelist at the...…

December 23, 2020 

Dave Mundy – 2020 20 Under 40 Honoree President and Founder, AuditDashboard.com Career highlights: After working in public practice at PwC and leading finance teams for a private equity asset manager, Dave Mundy founded AuditDashboard – to help make the lives of accounting professionals easier. His vision? To develop and deliver a more connected, secure,...…

December 22, 2020 

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has issued a new white paper to help auditors providing SOC for Service Organization (SOC) reports on organizations that have incorporated blockchain into their service delivery systems.

December 22, 2020 

Steven Bong – 2020 20 Under 40 Honoree CEO and Co-founder, AuditFilehttps://auditfile.com Steven Bong started AuditFile a decade ago with his brother, Kevin Bong (also a 20 Under 40 Honoree in 2020), while both were still in college. Today, AuditFile has thousands of customers all over the world!  Favorite book: Skin in the Game by...…

December 22, 2020 

Durran Dunn, CPA, CIA – 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree Senior Manager, Internal Audit FinanceGraphic Packaging Internationalhttps://www.graphicpkg.com/ Career highlights: Durran 15+ years of extensive experiences in assurance, advisory, accounting and finance; specifically, in external and internal audits, risk and regulatory compliance, SEC financial reporting, and corporate accounting has been a series of small successes that...…

December 22, 2020 

Burns has more than 25 years of experience in public accounting, serving and supporting small, medium and large clients. Previously, Burns was a partner in Deloitte’s national office of Audit and Assurance practice.

December 22, 2020 

As part of the NJCPA’s CPA Career Awareness program, member volunteers discussed the accounting profession with students, covering topics such as what accountants do, what it takes to become an accounting professional, what courses are necessary and ...

December 21, 2020 

Rebekah Brown, CPA – 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree Director of Development,Maryland Association of CPAs and The Business Learning Institutehttps://www.macpa.org/  Career highlights: Three years in public accounting before leaving to work on behalf of CPA profession at MACPA/BLI Eight years at MACPA/BLI, moving from Firm Learning Consultant, to Membership Manager and now a member of...…

December 21, 2020 

Kevin Bong – 2020 20 Under 40 Honoree Co-founder, AuditFile https://auditfile.com Kevin is a co-founder of AuditFile, where he works closely with Steven Bong to execute the Company’s vision for designing a simple-to-use, sophisticated cloud-based audit automation solution that empowers firms to prepare for the future of auditing. Kevin draws on his dual degree in...…

December 21, 2020 

Aaron Clayton, CPA, CGMA, CHFP, HFMA – 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree Partner, Eide Bailly Career highlights: I’ve been fortunate to have been trusted within Eide Bailly and the CPA profession with leadership opportunities. I was promoted to Partner at Eide Bailly in May 2015 and have since been promoted to the Audit Department Head...…

December 21, 2020 

Julie R. James, CPA – 2020 40 Under 40 Honoree Examination Review Board Audit ManagerNational Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)https://nasba.org http://linkedin.com/in/juliejamescpa Career highlights: Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Tennessee (and a reciprocal license in Georgia) United Way Atlanta Volunteer Involvement Program (VIP) Fellow (Summer 2017 Class) Appointed to TSCPA’s ACE...…