Rachel Foster, CPA, is a Professional Practice Director in Grant Thornton’s Metro DC office. She has spent 22 years in public accounting with extensive experience in financial statement and Uniform Guidance audits of not-for-profit organizations and federal agencies, as well as with compliance audits, examinations, System and Organization Controls (SOC) examinations, performance audits, reviews, and agreed upon procedures. Currently, as a Professional Practice Director, she works with not-for profit organizations and Grant Thornton’s specialty attest services practice. In this role she is responsible for implementing and monitoring the firm’s system of quality control related to audit execution, audit quality processes and initiatives, and operational matters, as well as managing risk and serving as a national consultative resource for technical questions and issues. Rachel is also involved with the AICPA and its Government Audit Quality Center (GAQC) by presenting at various national industry events such as the AICPA & CIMA Not-for-Profit Industry Conference and Government and Not-for-Profit Training Program and GAQC web events, as well as state CPA society conferences.