Save The Date! NSA’s 71st Annual Meeting and Live EA Course

Save the Date! NSA’s 71st Annual Meeting August 17-20, 2016 Tampa, FL

Experience two full days of top-notch CPE featuring the industry’s best thought- leaders and influencers. Topics will include SSARS 21, accounting, innovative marketing strategies, positioning your practice for growth, social media, retirement, ethics, due diligence, estate planning and more!

Karen L. Hawkins is a former Director of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility. Prior to taking that position in April, 2009, Ms. Hawkins was in private practice at the Oakland, California, law firm of Taggart & Hawkins where she specialized in civil and criminal tax controversy cases for nearly 30 years. She has been a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of diverse tax law topics including: Innocent Spouse Relief, Attorney’s Fees Awards; Collection Due Process; Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties; Tax Court Litigation; International Tax issues and Ethics in Tax Practice. Ms. Hawkins has a number of reported precedent-setting tax cases to her credit in the US Tax Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Hawkins holds several degrees including: MBA in Taxation, J. D. and M.Ed. Among her many honors and awards are: V. Judson Kelin Award from the California Bar’s Taxation Section and the National Pro Bono Award from the ABA’s Taxation Section.

Joseph L. Santoro is a certified public accountant, an AICPA member, and, since 1981, a member of the National Society of Accountants. In addition to an MBA degree, Mr. Santoro holds certificates as a Certified Valuation Analyst, Accredited Business Advisor, and Master Analyst in Financial Statement Forensics. A former two-term NSA District 1 Governor, he has chaired numerous NSA committees, including Budget, Education, National Affairs, and Peer Review. Currently he is chair of NSA Accounting Standards Committee and serves also as a member of the Board of Directors for the Accreditation Council for Accounting and Taxation [ACAT], where he has for many years worked as a subject matter expert for its credentialing examinations.

Although retired from the CPA practice he founded more than 30 years ago, Mr. Santoro, who is known nationwide as an author and lecturer for Gear Up, with which he has been associated for more than 20 years, continues to provide lectures on Accounting and Taxation at more than 80 seminars each year.

Steve Siegel is president of The Siegel Group, a Morristown, New Jersey-based national consulting firm specializing in tax consulting, estate planning and advising family business owners and entrepreneurs. Mr. Siegel holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University. Mr. Siegel is the author of many books, and a nationally-recognized speaker who has lectured extensively throughout the United States on tax, business and estate planning topics. Mr. Siegel has served as an adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall and Rutgers University law schools.

Katie is a past president of the Association for Accounting Marketing, and for the past two years, Accounting Today named Katie one of the top 100 most influential people in accounting and she was one of CPA Practice Advisors’ Most Powerful Women in Accounting in 2015. In addition, she was named Accounting Marketing of the Year in 2010 and has won a total of 12 Marketing Achievement Awards from the Association for Accounting Marketing and a Silver Quill and Best of Division award from the International Association of Business Communicators. Katie is also a contributing author to Bulls-Eye: The Ultimate How-To Marketing & Sales Guide for CPAs.

Josh Dye is the founder and president of Convene, LLC, a speaking, training and consulting company. Josh is a dynamic speaker who specializes in effective marketing and communications strategies. Convene helps its clients set up and improve websites, e-newsletters, blogs, videos, social media, and marketing campaigns.