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Ensemble Real Estate Services, LLC, has appointed Sandra Brashear-Paquin, CPA, as senior vice president and controller for the company. Brendan Kennedy is the new director of Business Strategies for DKAdvisors. He can reached at brendan. kennedy@dkadvisors.com. Sandy Abalos, CPA, managing partner of Abalos & Associates, P.C., has been recognized by Women Impacting Public Policy for her demonstrated leadership on a national and state level, speaking on issues that have an impact on the small business community. Abalos currently serves on the executive board and board of directors for the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and heads the organization’s Public Policy Committee. Anita Baker, CPA, and chair of the AICPA’s Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center Executive Committee, provided an update to the AICPA’s board of directors at its July meeting. Clifton Gunderson LLP recently promoted eight professionals: Emily Frana, CPA—Senior Associate, Kristopher Hallengren, CPA—Manager, Joshua Harrison, CPA, CFA—Senior Manager, Mark Idzik, CPA/ABV, ASA—Senior Manager, Jessica Mark—Senior Associate, Megan Nail, PHR—Manager, Rick Takemoto, ASA—Senior Manager, Marcia Teal, CPA—Manager. The following three individuals have joined the firm: Lori Brady, Erin Fox, CPA and Matthew Lausten. Joel F. Birenbaum, P.C. announced that Mitchell B. Speen, CPA has become a shareholder of the firm and the new firm name is Birenbaum & Speen, P.C. The Renaissance Companies named Randall Rafidi, CPA, as vice president and chief financial officer. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) staff recently hosted a mini Olympics event at the Harry & Sandy Rosenzweig Branch of the Boys and Girls Club of Metropolitan Phoenix. Close to 50 volunteers from PWC helped organize and run the first PWC mini Olympics. More than 100 club members were able to participate in the activities. Jefferson Wells, a global provider of accounting and finance-related services has acquired the Quoted... “Make a list of the 100 things you love to do, the 100 things that you do that make a difference, the 100 things that you are good at and your top 10 gifts. Out of that, you will find a satisfying, enriching, fun, easy career where the work does not feel like work.” Katherine Halpin, CPA, The Halpin Company, Inc., The Business Journal, “10 Cool Jobs You Wish You Had” “The message we constantly preach to everyone is that the best way to insure against layoffs is to make sure our operations are as low-cost as they possibly can be. As long as we stay in a cost-competitive situation, then we ought to be able to weather any point in the cycle. And clearly that’s our goal.” Phelps Dodge CEO Steven Whisler, CPA, in an article on Edward Dupke, CPA, of Clifton Gunderson, was featured in Accounting Today in the article,“Firms Mine Value from Valuations.” AZ CPA – September 2006
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