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Located in WS+B Red Bank office, Randy is the partner charged with directing the firm’s litigation, valuation and forensic accounting services unit. He has over 20 years of public accounting experience including business valuation, taxation, litigation support, and consulting. He has provided consultation services for various business mergers and acquisitions. This includes valuation of the entities involved, developing compensation agreements, and legal structure, as well as financial feasibility analysis. Randy has also performed all phases of litigation support including lost profits calculations, bankruptcies, forensic accounting, matrimonial accounting, wrongful death calculations, business valuations, and discovery. Randy has represented all sizes of clients from small solo practitioner professional practices to large Fortune 100 public companies. He has many years of traditional accounting experience including the taxation and reporting for closely-held businesses. Randy holds a bachelor’s degree in economics (with a minor in physics) from Rutgers University, NJ. He is a certified public accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), where he is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). He is also a member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), where he serves on the Litigation Committee at both the state level and at the Monmouth/Ocean County Chapter level. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Accounting (DABFA) and is an associate member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Randy has published numerous articles on forensic accounting, income taxes, valuation, as well as editing publications for other authors. He is a frequent speaker at various professional conferences, including the NJSCPA, National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), and others.

Professor Larry Gramling has been a member of the Faculty of the Accounting Department in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut in Storrs since 1980. He is the Assistant Department Head in charge of undergraduate studies. He previously taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Southern Maine. His teaching interests include Assurance Services (auditing) and Financial Accounting. Larry has been developing and presenting professional accounting seminars to CPA associations as well as to regional and local CPA firms throughout the country, for over 30 years. He is currently co-author of the highly acclaimed Professional Training for the Local Firm – Level 2 staff training course. He has also consulted with various CPA firms concerning their quality control systems, including conducting peer review inspections.Larry served as President of the Connecticut Society of CPAs in 2000 – 2001 and served two terms on the CSCPA’s Board of Governors. He recently served a 3-year term as a Connecticut representative to the AICPA Council. He has previously chaired the CSCPA’s Accounting and Reporting Standards, Peer Review, Strategic Planning, and Educators committees. He has served on many other CSCPA committees including various committees on accounting and auditing regulation. He is currently serving as a trustee and chair of the CSCPA’s Educational Trust Fund.Professor Gramling has published in various professional and academic journals including Issues in Accounting Education, The CPA Journal and the Connecticut CPA. In addition, Larry is currently the coordinator of the University of Connecticut’s award-winning seminar Introduction to a Profession, which received the national Joint AICPA – AAA Collaboration Award for the best example of collaboration between accounting practitioners and academics.Larry received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, his MBA from Northeastern University and his BS in Accounting, cum laude, from the University of Scranton. He has previous experience as a member of the professional auditing staff of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Boston office.

Kevin Hoyle is the Chief Executive Officer of Shannon Systems LLC which does business globally as B2BGateway.Net. Kevin Hoyle holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA and a Masters Degree in Information Systems from Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, USA. Kevin has more than 30 years experience working in various technical and managerial positions with Raytheon Corp., General Electric, Unisys, Amtrol Inc. and other major corporations.

(published 2010 by McGraw-Hill Professional)What is a Wikibrand?It's the next generation of business building that taps into the true power of social networks, brand connections, and customer participation to build real value. It's a status update on Facebook, a rave on Twitter, a review on YouTube, and so much more. It's the herald of a new golden age in customer freedom and individualized customer service.It's the future of business--and this book is your wake-up call, strategy guide, and road map to what's ahead.In Wikibrands, acclaimed media marketing experts Sean Moffitt and Mike Dover show you how to take advantage of the exciting new models of business and technologies--and enthusiastic online communities--one click at a time.Built on continuing research from Don Tapscott's trailblazing $10 million research project, which formed the basis of bestselling books such as Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital, this book delivers hundreds of the best examples from today's most successful businesses. You'll learn how to:ENGAGE THE CUSTOMER through social influence, word of mouth, and user-generated contentCREATE AN EXPERIENCE affected by customer-driven ratings, reviews, and online cultureBUILD A COMMUNITY through microblogging, prosumerism, and crowdsourcingMAKE A CONNECTION that is truly authentic, collaborative, and value enhancingWhether you work with an established business and are looking to make it relevant to today's "wikiconsumers" or are launching a start-up from scratch, Wikibrands offers countless creative ideas for defining and reaching out to your target audience.

Frances J. Coet, CPA/CFF, CVA, CFP®, CFFA began her career as a tax and accounting professional forty years ago. Currently serving as a principal in the Westminster, Colorado CPA and financial planning firm of Coet 2 CPAs, PC, Coet assists over 1,200 individual, corporate, partnership and fiduciary entities each year to file their income tax returns. Tax planning for start up businesses, real estate transactions, and buying and selling of small businesses absorbs a great deal of Coet’s professional time and expertise.Coet holds multiple professional designations – Certified Public Accountant (CPA)/Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Certified Financial Planner Practitioner (CFP), and Certified Financial Forensic Analyst (CFFA). She approaches her clients with a holistic financial perspective – most of her client base is closely held businesses and their owners. Applying her training as an accounting professional with emphasis in tax, valuation and financial planning, Fran has been able to advise clients on how to keep more of what they make, and how to define their financial goals and attain them. Coet has qualified as an expert witness regarding business valuations, professional ethics and income tax issues in litigation environments, and is a trained instructor of tax law topics. In the year 2000, the Small Business Administration designated Fran as the 2000 SBA Accountant-Advocate for the State of Colorado and Region VIII. She graduated from Regis University, magna cum laude, with a major in business administration and a minor in economics. Coet is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Colorado Society of CPAs, the Financial Planning Association, and the National Association of Valuation Analysts. She was chair of the Colorado Society of CPA’s Federal Taxation Committee and served on that Society’s Board of Directors and as a Vice President of the Society. She is currently a board member of the Westminster Legacy Foundation, serves as an instructor for the Front Range Community College’s Small Business Development Center, and serves as a consultant to the Colorado Board of Accountancy.Before Coet and her husband John opened their own accounting practice in 1986, she worked for the Internal Revenue Service as a taxpayer service specialist and classroom instructor, and at a local CPA firm. A third generation tax preparer, she began her career with an income tax and bookkeeping firm in Iowa in 1971.

Peter is a partner based in WithumSmith+Brown's New Brunswick, NJ, office and entered the public accounting profession over 25 years ago. He is a licensed certified public accountant in the state of New Jersey and specializes in taxation.A graduate of Brooklyn College, where he earned his BA degree in economics, Peter also completed graduate courses at Baruch School of Business, City University of New York. He began his accounting career at Laventhol & Horwath after serving as an IRS agent for eight years. He was a founding partner of Mendlowitz Weitsen, LLP, which merged into WS+B in 2005. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA). Peter is a past president of the Middlesex/Somerset Chapter of the NJSCPA and a former chairperson of the Cooperation with the IRS Committee. Peter currently presents to the NJSCPA as a member of the IRS practitioner Liaison Committee New Jersey.He currently serves as treasurer for the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce and received the chamber’s "2002 Business Leader of the Year Award." In addition to co-authoring three books, Peter has written numerous articles and has been quoted in several publications throughout the country. He is also a frequent speaker before business and professional groups.

John Hughes, CA, is an accounting and financial reporting consultant, and Director of Accounting Standards at MSCM LLP. John was Manager, Corporate Finance for over six years at the Ontario Securities Commission, with particular involvement in the OSC's continuous disclosure review program and related policy matters. Apart from IFRS, his areas of emphasis and expertise include MD&A, corporate governance, disclosure controls and procedures, and regulatory compliance generally. He is a frequent presenter and writer on these topics and others (including regular commentary at mscm.ca), was co-editor (for Deloitte Canada) of the CCH publication iGAAP: IFRS for Canada, and is the author of IFRS Literacy: Understanding the new Financial Statements, published by CCH in October 2010."