Member News

Peggy Ullmann, CPA, has been named to the AICPA board of directors. Ullmann is a past chair of the ASCPA and is being honored with Life Membership at the ASCPA Annual Meeting. She is president of Ullmann CPAs.

AREÁD, a local real estate development company, named Connie Radoff as the firm’s controller.  She will manage the accounting and financial functions, providing analysis for the variety of projects of this fast-growing company.

CBIZ Miller Wagner, LLC and Mayer Hoffman McCann PC promoted Erich L. Pflumm to tax manager and J. Ryan Rold to audit manager. They also added Monica Jean Prunty, Bryant L. McKinley and Juli B. Russell to their audit department.

Gerald Kramer, CPA, was named an honorary member of the AICPA.

Theresa Garcia was quoted in the March issue of Association Management, the American Society of Association Executive’s magazine. 

Dee Ann Brower has joined the team of Busby Sanford Brady CPAs PLC as a staff accountant, and recently was awarded her CPA Certificate after passing the CPA Exam in November of 2003.Brower graduated from the University of Arizona in 1998 with a double major in Accounting and Finance.

Georgia McGraw, CPA, received the YWCA’s Dorothy Willey Award for her commitment to the YWCA. She is a director with Ball & McGraw, PC.

The Better Business Bureau of Central/Northern Arizonaannounced that Keats, Connelly & Associates is a finalist for the 2005 Better Business Bureau’s Ethics Award.

Donna Benjamin was recently featured in an alumni profile in the cba.nau Tapestry publication for NAU.

Sandra A. Abalos, managing partner of Abalos & Associates, P.C., has been named national tax issue chair of the National Association of Women Business Owners.

The Association for Accounting Administration (AAA) elected Connie Harmsen, firm administrator with Henry & Horne, as president at its annual symposium held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Abalos & Associates, P.C., has hired Tony May, CPA as a staff accountant.

Rebecca Hillebrand was featured in an article in the AICPA electronic newsletter.  Hillebrand, comptroller of Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., decided to bring financial literacy to her workplace. With the approval of her company president, she invited all interested employees and their spouses to attend brown bag lunches covering major areas of financial concern.  Hillebrand used the Web site, www.360 financialliteracy.org to choose her topics.