CPA Practice Advisor Announces the ‘40 Under 40’ Honorees for 2012

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The future leaders of the accounting profession are already among us, possessing the skills, passion and tools to ensure success in the future. Recognizing the efforts of these individuals, CPA Practice Advisor has selected its annual 40 Under 40 honorees and will announce the 2012 list in the September 2012 issue. CPA Practice Advisor is a national information and educational resource for public accounting professionals.

“The announcement of the awards has become a much anticipated event in the public accounting world and those that have been named are clearly proud of their important designation.”

This year’s honorees are already making waves in the accounting profession, and are committed to increasing productivity and efficiencies for their customers and clients and providing excellent customer service, all while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

The ongoing efforts of this year’s 40 Under 40 honorees have been recognized by the vendors, consultants, thought leaders, peers and clients with which they do business daily. They are held in high regard by those directly affected by their contributions to the public accounting profession.

“It's extremely gratifying to realize that, over the last seven years, hundreds of our professions' young leaders have been celebrated as members of the now famous "40 Under 40" of the CPA Practice Advisor,” said former Executive Editor Greg LaFollette, CPA.CITP, Vice President of Product Strategy for CPA2Biz. “The announcement of the awards has become a much anticipated event in the public accounting world and those that have been named are clearly proud of their important designation.”

The full article on this year’s 40 Under 40 is available at: www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com/10756160

The 2012 Honorees are:

Shayna B. Chapman, CPA.CITP

Srinivasu Maradana, MCP, SCJP

Sean Hanthorn, MBA

Samir Khosla, MBA

Roy Keely

Robert Baumann

Peter Miele

Noel Abdur-Rahim, CPA

W. Michael Hsu, CPA.CITP, MSA

Merrill J. Taylor, CPA

Melanie Carol Geist, CPA

Louie J Calvin

Liz Alexander, CPA

Kim Hogan

Kasey Bayne

Kacee Johnson, MBA

Julio E. Garcia, CPA

Joey Brannon, CPA

Joe Lauzen, CPA

Jim Boomer, CPA.CITP, MBA

Jennifer Warawa

Jennifer M. Lowe, JD

Jennifer Pierce Cook, CPA

Dustin Wheeler, CPA

Dan Zitting, CPA.CITP, CISA

Dan Nicholson, CPA, CGMA

Daniel T. Moore, CPA

Christian James

Chris Farmand, CPA.CITP, MBA

Cara R. Newhouse, CPA

Byron K. Patrick, CPA.CITP, CGMA

Bryan Hoeft

Brian Fox, CPA, MBA

Anthony J. Nitti, CPA, MST

Thomas Fantin, CPA.CITP

Aubrey Lynch, CPA

Joyce Washington, CPA

Jason Lawhorn, CPA.CITP.MAcc

Adam Kupperman

John Crosslin, CPA MBA

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