Accounting

Sean A. Hanthorn Professional Credentials (CPA, EA, MBA, etc if any): MBA Age: 38 Employer: Rootworks LLC / RootAdvisors LLC Title: Director of Education Services – Rootworks LLC / Director of System Strategies – RootAdvisors LLC City/State: Ferndale Michigan Website: Twitter: @SHMSU02 Spent over 8 years consulting, training, supporting, and assisting sales in the accounting software arena […]

Ross A. Riskin  Professional Credentials (CPA, EA, MBA, etc if any): CPA/PFS, CCFC, MST  Age: 26  Employer: American Institute of Certified College Financial Consultants | Albertus Magnus College | Riskin Advisory, LLC  Title:  Founder | Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance | Managing Member  City/State: Bethany, Connecticut  Website: www.rossriskin.com  Twitter: @rossriskin  Professional Associations/Memberships:   American […]

Blake Oliver Age: 34Employer: Armanino LLPTitle: Manager, ConsultingCity/State: Los Angeles, CAWebsite: http://www.blakeoliver.com, http://www.armaninollp.com Listen to this podcast   In 2011, I started an online bookkeeping service called Cloudsourced Accounting. My partners and I had the explicit goal of disrupting the business models of traditional CPA firms and freelance bookkeepers. As a completely virtual firm, we […]

Retail sales in July increased by 0.6 percent over June on a seasonally adjusted basis, triple the revised 0.2 percent growth seen in June, according to calculations released today by the National Retail Federation. Sales increased by 3.5 percent ...

This year’s 40 Under 40 and 20 Under 40 honorees are visibly and incrementally changing the accounting profession through their exemplary leadership, their innovative thinking, their collaborative efforts guaranteed to provide unity to the ...

Bas Kniphorst Age:                                                       39 Employer:                                           Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US Title:                                                     Vice President Product Management City/State:                                          Riverwoods IL Website:                                             www.CCHGroup.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/baskniphorst/ Twitter: Upon graduation from college I was intrigued by the world of content and joined Wolters Kluwer in 2001. The internet had radically altered the business model and the […]

Karly A. Laughlin, CPA Age: 30 Employer: Belfint, Lyons & Shuman, P.A. Title: Manager, Tax and Small Business City/State: Wilmington, DE Website: www.belfint.com Twitter: @DelawareCPA and @BelfintCPAs Professional Associations/Memberships: Delaware Estate Planning Council (Board Member), Delaware CarePlan, Inc. (Treasurer), Wilmington Tax Group, Delaware Society of CPAs, AICPA   I began my career with BLS as […]

Daniel Vidal Age: 28 Employer: Expensify Title: Head of Business Development City/State: Portland, OR Website: www.expensify.com Twitter: @DanielVidal88   Having the opportunity to create Expensify’s partnership programs from scratch has been an incredible journey. My role at Expensify started informally. Initially, it was just overseeing conversations with all our non-customers: individuals whom we had no […]