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During the Ohio Government Finance Officers Association Annual Intermediate Accounting Seminar, Chad Welty presented“ Government Accounting: Measurement Focus & Basis of Accounting Recognition,”“ Management Discussion and Analysis” and“ Common Financial Statement Reporting Deficiencies”; Anita Martin( Medina) presented“ Specialized Accounting Applications in Government Accounting”; and Morgan Helmick( Medina) presented“ Reporting Differences of the Various Basis of Accounting Within Government.”
Maribeth Wright( Cambridge) spoke about community leadership at the Leadership Guernsey County graduation ceremony.
Darlene Finzer( New Philadelphia) gave two presentations:“ Planning and Wrapping Up The Audit: Best Practices You Need To Know” and“ Conducting The Audit: Best Practices You Need To Know” at the Ohio Society of CPAs’ Employee Benefit Plan Audit Conference. She also gave an Employee Benefit Plan Update at the Ohio Society of CPA’ s Akron Spring CPE Conference.
Chris Axene( Dublin) presented at the Dublin Chamber of Commerce’ s Lunch & Learn on financial best practices for small businesses.
Becky Boyd( Practice Growth / New Philadelphia) spoke at the Akron chapter of the American Heart Association’ s 2017 Go Red For Women Luncheon to inform the audience about the risks of heart disease and stroke in women.
Renee West( HR / New Philadelphia) presented“ The Top 5 Habits of Destructive HR Leaders” to the Tuscora Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.
Tim McDaniel( Dublin) facilitated a panel titled“ Run Better: Profitable Growth in Action Business Building Block.”
Tim McDaniel and Chris Axene were panel members during the Central Ohio Business & Wealth Planning Council presentation“ Business Acquisition Due Diligence.”
Abbey Kanellakis( Practice Growth / Dublin) presented“ Tools You Can’ t Live Without” during a campfire session at the Association for Accounting Marketing conference. She also gave a presentation about content marketing at the annual in-person meeting of the Moore Stephens North America marketing group.
Chad Gorfido( Medina) presented“ Audit Hot Topics” at the Ashland Treasurer Leadership Academy Seminar.
Mark Fearon and Susan Custer( both of New Philadelphia) taught“ Business Tax Requirements” for a seminar at Kent State Tuscarawas’ Small Business Development Center.
Industry & Community Involvement
Chad Welty will serve as the director of the Ohio Government Finance Officers Association Annual Intermediate Accounting Seminar.
Ted Klimczak( Medina) was elected to serve as a board member of the Greater Medina Chamber of Commerce.
Dave McCarthy( Medina) was honored for his service as a member of the board of trustees during the graduation ceremony for Leadership Medina County.
With regard to Ohio House Bill 49, Lee Beall( Dublin) testified on behalf of the Ohio Society of CPAs in support for municipal income tax of business profits filing through the Ohio Business Gateway. He delivered testimony to the Ohio House Finance Committee as well as the Ohio Senate Finance Subcommittee.
A delegation of CPAs representing Rea, including Mark McKinley( Dublin), Kent Beachy( Dublin), Joe Popp( Dublin) and Lee Beall, met with Mary Taylor, Ohio Lt. Governor and candidate for Governor, for a roundtable discussion about her candidacy.
Joe Popp was featured in a video for the Ohio Society of CPAs to use at their Advance: Fuel Your Future events. He was also interviewed by the organization for an article titled,“ AHCA: Not the health care reform news some were waiting for, expert says.”
Ryan Dumermuth( Mentor) was featured for an article in the Journal of Accountancy called“ How To Avoid Inheritance Mistakes.”
Becca Davis, Abbey Kanellakis and Alex Bixler( all in Practice Growth / Dublin) provided insight about video marketing to members of the Association for Accounting Marketing in the organization’ s monthly newsletter.
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