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AAFCPAs Promotes Four to Partner to Support Continued Growth
Westborough, MA 1/8/2020 – AAFCPAs is excited to announce the promotion of four additional Partners to our leadership team. Katie Belanger, CPA, Joshua England, LLM, Esq., Courtney McFarland, CPA, MSA, and Michael Pruell, CPA provide best value assurance, tax & advisory solutions, with outstanding service to AAFCPAs’ growing client base of nonprofit organizations, privately-held commercial […]

Planning for 2020: which catalysts will shape opportunities?
Cannabis executives can reflect back on 2019 as a year of swift change — and they can expect more of the same in 2020. Regulatory shifts are anticipated, and financing will be in flux across the industry. When planning for the near term, the more data executives can gather, the better. Executives and investors eyeing […]

To Stay Secure, Think Like a Fraudster
Take the case of one private secondary school, where the business officer was accused of cutting checks worth more than $50,000 to pay for personal travel expenditures. He entered the transactions into the school record as payments for school travel. Because the hotels and airlines were the same companies the school used for professional development, […]

AAFCPAs Welcomes Consulting CFO Lucy Van Laarhoven to Support Steady Growth of Managed Accounting Solutions Practice
Boston, MA (September 9, 2019) – AAFCPAs, a best-in-class CPA and consulting firm known for assurance, tax, accounting, wealth management, valuation, business process, and IT advisory solutions, today announced the addition of Consulting CFO Lucy Van Laarhoven, CPA. Lucy joins AAFCPAs’ growing Managed Accounting Solutions (MAS) Practice, which provides high-quality, cost-effective, cloud-based accounting and CFO […]

Viewpoint: Nonprofits should stay vocal about transportation 'tax'
Boston Business Journal | “Organizations are tax-exempt for a reason: to optimize their abilities to benefit society,” says Carla McCall, CPA, CGMA, AAFCPAs’ Co-Managing Partner. In this op-ed, Carla urges nonprofits to participate in the survey to show Congress how detrimental the original provision in the TCJA was to their mission.

Cannabis firms must overcome financial hurdles
With cannabis businesses steadily entering the mainstream, it can be easy to lose sight of how difficult it is to launch and operate an organization in a quickly evolving industry. The regulatory scrutiny and tug of war between state and federal legislation creates a delicate environment.

AG Healey supports federal bill to legalize cannabis banking
Dave McManus, co-managing partner at AAFCPAs said in an interview that the law would provide more flexibility for banking opportunities, allowing more banks to come into the sector.

AAFCPAs Promotes Four to Partner to Support Firm Growth
Westborough, MA 1/8/2019 – AAFCPAs is excited to announce the promotion of four additional Partners to our growing team: Andrew Hammond, CFP®, Carmen Grinkis, PhD, CLTC, CFP®, Matthew McGinnis, CPA, and Davide Villani, CPA, CGMA are fully engrossed in the industries we serve, and work closely together to best serve our diverse client base with the distinction of excellence. Carmen […]

AAFCPAs’ #GivingTuesday Match Donates Over $31K to Charities
AAFCPAs participated again this year in #GivingTuesday, on November 27th, 2018, a global day dedicated to giving! Collectively, the firm and its team members donated $31,778 to mission driven nonprofits! HOW DID AAFCPAs TAKE PART IN THE SPIRIT OF GIVING? Extra incentives to give! For #GivingTuesday, AAFCPAs and our company-sponsored Charitable Foundation matched employee gifts 1:1 […]