Welcome to the blog!
I am a CPA with over 30 years experience in public accounting with a focus on providing attestation services. Providing Peer Review services in now a part of my practice.
I am intentionally a sole practitioner, which means this is a one-person firm by choice. Technology makes this possible. The desire to have the maximum impact for my clients makes this preferable. This experience helps me understand the small firm dynamics.
The goal of this blog is to provide the CPA community with news in the attestation area. No tax stuff here! Just audits, reviews, and compilations.
I am also blogging at other sites.
- Nonprofit Update focuses on financial issues of interest to the nonprofit community.
- Once Upon Internal Control uses creative ways to communicate internal control ideas through animated cartoons. (My attempt to use visualization to explain really cool accounting ideas that other people find dreary for some reason that I just can’t understand.)
Located in North Dakota, serving Southern California
In 2022 I moved to Williston, North Dakota. We are about 80 miles from the Canadian border.
Why?, I hear you ask. Chasing grandkids. My wife and I want to spent more time with the little ones and watch them grow.
Although I am located in North Dakota, I continue to serve my clients in the Southern California area. In over two years from the start of the pandemic until relocating, I was in a client’s office only about 4 days. It is just as easy to work remotely from Williston as it was from Rancho Cucamonga.
Acceptable comments
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Comments that contain ad hominem attacks on me or others or that use foul language won’t get posted. Likewise with racist, crude, or nasty comments. Here is a working description of the standard I will use: If I won’t want my wife or mom to read the comment, it won’t get approved. The determining factor for what is appropriate is my judgment.
I welcome disagreement and opposing opinions. If you get irritated by my opinions and say so, that is fine. Share too deeply and I will delete your comments.
If those standards are troublesome, then feel free to start your own blog.
Even though I screen all comments and may delete some that don’t meet the minimum standards described above, I’m not responsible for what others may say.
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Enjoy! I hope the blog will help you provide better attestation services to your clients.