Quarterly A&A Update

CPA

Mike Austin joined the CPEA as a Senior Technical Manager in December 2016. Previously, Mike spent 10 years at Grant Thornton in the audit practice, serving clients in a variety of industries. He is also a Cleveland Browns fan, which is a lot less embarrassing this year than it has been in the past.

CPA

Mary Foelster is a Senior Director at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Washington, DC, where her primary responsibility is to address governmental auditing and accounting matters, including compliance audits. Mary oversees the AICPA’s Governmental Audit Quality Center and its Executive Committee and is actively involved in the AICPA’s efforts to enhance the quality of single audits and other types of governmental audits. Mary also directs the AICPA’s governmental accounting efforts, including the activities of the AICPA State and Local Government Expert Panel, related interactions with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, and commenting on GASB due process documents. Mary is also responsible for monitoring and analyzing federal regulatory and legislative developments affecting auditing or accounting in a governmental or compliance audit environment. Mary and her team help members understand the implications of standards and regulation on governmental audits. This includes significant involvement with the development, issuance, and annual update process for the Audit and Accounting Guide, Audits of State and Local Governments, and the AICPA Audit Guide, Government Auditing Standards and Single Audits. Mary has been with the AICPA for over 25 years. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and is a certified public accountant.

CPA, CGMA

Michael P. (Mike) Glynn is a Senior Manager in the AICPA Audit and Attest Standards Team. In this capacity, Mike serves as the staff liaison to the Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC). In addition, Mike supports the activities of Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and its subcommittees by assisting members in drafting and deliberating authoritative professional standards and interpretations.

CPA, CGMA

Hiram Hasty is the Associate Director of Audit & Attest Standards at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants.

CPA, MBA

Deana N. Thorps is a manager on the Public Accounting team at the AICPA. She manages the Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative project. She is a licensed CPA in the state of North Carolina. Prior to working at the AICPA, Deana served in various auditing roles in the public and private sectors. Most recently, she has led audit quality efforts with the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General.

CPA

Jennifer Burns, CPA is the Chief Auditor at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. Jennifer serves as the Association’s leading expert on U.S. and international auditing and attestation standards and leads its professional standards team in the delivery of high-quality innovative audit, attest, quality control, review, compilation, and preparation standards. Jennifer provides strategic direction to the AICPA U.S. Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and the U.S. Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC), in partnership with their chairs. She works with the ASB in identifying and developing innovative and transformational standards that encourage the use of technology in the audit and in visioning how the audit might change as technology advances. Prior to joining the AICPA in January 2021, Jennifer was a partner in the national office for Deloitte & Touche LLP where she focused on regulatory, standard-setting and quality matters impacting the performance of audits. In this role, she regularly interacted with standard-setting and regulatory entities including the PCAOB, SEC, IAASB and COSO, representing the views of the firm. Most recently she applied her passion and expertise for audit innovation to oversee the development of tools and methodologies that facilitated the delivery of audit and attestation services. She transformed the firm’s and profession’s approaches to emerging areas of assurance and developed guidance and thought leadership on other critical issues, including internal control, third-party assessments, sustainability, blockchain and artificial intelligence. From 2004-2006, Jennifer served as a professional accounting fellow in the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant where she focused on professional practice matters, including issues related to the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Jennifer graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, CA and is a CPA in California and Nevada.