News & Updates

On Wednesday, Jim Phillips, CPA, officially took over as VSCPA Board of Directors Chair from Lisa Germano, CPA. We'll have a more complete profile of Phillips in the July/August issue of Disclosures , but here are a few facts about the 2016–2017 chair: He is a partner at KPMG, where he has worked his entire career in Louisville, Ky., Mountain View, Calif., and his current home of Richmond He is on his second state society board, having previously served on the Kentucky Society of CPAs (KyCPA) Board

Rick White, CPA, has always put his clients first, even atthe expense of his own happiness. But it usually winds up working out for him in the end. White, the new chair of the VSCPA Educational Foundation, found himself at a professional crossroads several years ago as managing partner of Fairfax firm Swart, Lalande & Associates. White loved the small-firm lifestyle and could have kept on happily, but felt his book of clients would be better off with the resources of a larger firm. So he did

This is a story about one man’s journey through the world. This is how Ahmed Ismail, CPA, made his way from rural Ethiopia to Arctic Canada — and picked up a connection with the VSCPA along the way.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of profiles highlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . Since 2009, VSCPA member Anne Hagen, CPA, has been chief financial officer (CFO) of the Masonic Home of Virginia. The roots for that role were put down decades ago amid milk, vegetables and cuts of meat. Growing up in Lynchburg, Hagen performed any supporting

We here at the VSCPA make an honest effort to avoid puns, but sometimes you just can’t avoid it, and discussing Staunton mayor Carolyn Dull, CPA, is one of those times. So let’s get it out of the way: Dull is not dull, and neither is her job.

It’s an interesting time to be Bob Baldassari, CPA. The longtime VSCPA member and volunteer has worked in the health care field for three decades, helping medical practices handle the business side of their industry.

William R. “Bill” Brown, CPA, officially joined the Virginia Board of Accountancy (VBOA) on July 1. But he’s got plenty of experience dealing with the issues the board deals with.

He didn’t set out to do it, but VSCPA member and CPA Bo Garner is devoted to nonprofit organizations. As the co-leader of the nonprofit team at PBMares —working with organizations in the southern and eastern portions of Virginia out of the firm’s Newport News office — he focuses on helping clients keep their financial statements in order. It all stems from some chance early-career assignments. “I was assigned to a few nonprofit audits and came to realize the extreme reliance

They joined the Virginia Board of Accountancy together, and they’re cycling off together. And while Barclay Bradshaw, CPA, and Bob Cochran, CPA, made most of their changes around the margins, they say that’s a testament to their predecessors.

Editor&rsquo ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;s Note: This is part of a series of profileshighlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . Susan Ferguson, CPA, is a college professor, a self-proclaimed “nerd at heart” and a veteran VSCPA volunteer. Brian Carson, CPA, is a CFO who has split his career between public practice and corporate finance. Together, they’re the

As Virginia CPA Week kicks off, the VSCPA is focused on promoting the ways CPAs help taxpayers and businesses in the Commonwealth. VSCPA member Adam Chaikin, CPA, is a shining example of that desire to use one’s expertise for the greater good.

When VSCPA member Charlie Equi, CPA, began his accounting career, he found an industry in transition. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 had shaken up the federal tax code, and technological advances were changing the way tax professionals did business.

It’s been a long, difficult ride for VSCPA member Christina Monfalcone, CPA, in the accounting industry, involving a deceased mentor, an undesirable work situation and one of the most difficult decisions she ever had to make. But she made it through and emerged as an industry leader in her region, and she’s drawing on her own experience to educate her colleagues.

From ornithology to accounting to software development, Christine Stinson has what can fairly be called a diverse set of interests. But one of her most rewarding activities is volunteering with the VSCPA. Stinson is the accounting program coordinator at Ferrum College in Franklin County and has served on the VSCPA’s Educators’ Symposium Task Force on and off for the past decade. This year, she served as program moderator for the event. She takes on that responsibility as a way of giving back to

For VSCPA member Garland Creighton, CPA, his parents, Garland Sr. and Fredricka, were his rock and his greatest inspiration. Now he’s paying tribute to them and helping others at the same time.

Coming out of college, VSCPA member Hope Cupit, CPA, felt shut out of many career opportunities. So she carved her own niche and embarked on a career that's seen her services prove vital to many Virginia communities. Cupit, 47, is president and CEO of the Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project (SERCAP), a nonprofit organization that helps low-income communities manage and improve their water and wastewater infrastructure and provides lending opportunities and loans for businesses, homeowners

Editor&rsquo ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;sNote: This is part of a series of profiles highlighting the diverse interests and careers of VSCPA members. Know a member (including yourself) who would make for an interesting profile? Email VSCPA Communications Manager Chip Knighton . Tough, but fair. That’s the reputation VSCPA member Cindy Easterwood, CPA, has among Virginia Tech accounting students. It’s helped her build a career and a family that’s now entwined at a place that she’d never seen before

VSCPA member Brad Biondi, CPA, was initially attracted to the accounting profession because of the nearly limitless possibilities it offered. He’s followed through on those possibilities during his young career.

Gabriele Lingenfelter, CPA, has hopscotched around the country and the globe on the orders of the U.S. Army. Earlier in her career, she took the constant movement as a chance to reinvent herself, finding a home teaching tomorrow’s CPAs.

George Forsythe, CPA, embarked on his professional career with one singular goal: to become a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. That’s not quite where his career ended up — and he couldn’t be happier.