Mastering the Employee Retention Credit

Deborah, National Director, Compensation and Benefits for Cherry Bekaert LLP and formerly an equity partner in Deloitte Tax LLP and KPMG has extensive experience in health care reform, executive compensation, qualified retirement plans and employment taxes. Deborah’s professional background enables her to provide assistance with all aspects of compensation and benefits. She has designed and advised on executive compensation arrangements and retirement plans for clients of all sizes. Her government experience provides her with an in-depth understanding of the development of legislation and regulations. Deborah is the past Chair of the IRS Advisory Council, a group of tax professionals appointed by the IRS to advise on IRS administrative issues. She also served a 3 year term on the AICPA Board of Directors Life Insurance and Disability Committee, the group responsible for managing trusts receiving over $400,000,000 in premiums and providing disability and life insurance to over 250,000 individual AICPA members and their firms. For many years, she has been involved with the AICPA Employee Benefits Tax Conference, an annual conference providing continuing education to approximately 1500 CPA professionals involved with employee benefits. She is currently the Vice Chair of the AICPA Employee Benefits Technical Resource Panel. Deborah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (magna cum laude) in Economics from Alfred University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is a NACD Governance Fellow, a professional designation issued by the National Association of Corporate Directors.