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Outstanding Members
We wish to thank and recognize
Donald A. Glenn, CPA/ABV, CFE, CVA
P. Dermot O'Neill, CPA, ABV, CVA, CFFA |
Donald A. Glenn, CPA/ABV, CFE, CVA
At some point in my youth – it wasn’t during the
long sunny, California days on the surfboard and it
wasn’t the years in the US Marines – but at some point
I realized I had a unique relationship with numbers.
They worked for me and I liked working with them. By
the time I entered college, I had a reasonable sense
of direction for my life. Or so I thought.
After graduation and obtaining my CPA license, I cut
my accounting teeth at a firm which specialized in
fraud audits of construction contractors. I then spent
a year with the Carpenter’s Pension Fund in Oakland,
California. My teen-age summer jobs as a construction
laborer actually did help me out at the beginning of
my career.
When I left the pension fund to start my own CPA Firm,
I expected to do what many CPAs did in those days: tax
returns, write ups, business consulting; all without
the benefit of a computer, thank you very much! As
luck would have it, my office was near an attorney’s
office and he and I became friends. As I learned about
his line of work, primarily family law, I got very
excited about the possibilities I was envisioning for
myself. Litigation Consulting was just beginning to be
chatted up in professional journals so I really had no
idea how much I did not know. I was already an active
member in AICPA, IMA (where I met my lovely wife,
Marjorie) and the Calif. Society of CPA’s so I was
using those resources to stay abreast of the latest
developments. When I heard about NACVA I immediately
signed up for the training course and exam. I have not
once been sorry I did that.
My firm is continuously evolving but my core
principles remain: 1) provide knowledgeable, high
quality services and 2) be actively involved in
professional, business, community and civic affairs.
Membership in NACVA helps me to achieve both.
I have been an active participant in NACVA. I have
attended many, and taught at a few NACVA conferences.
I have been on the National Course Review Committee. I
currently sit on the Business and Technical Standards
Committees. I am continually amazed NACVA’s ability to
attract and maintain their nationwide network of BV
professionals and remain at the cutting edge on
Business Valuation resources. I am honored to be named
an outstanding member of such an outstanding
organization.
P. Dermot O'Neill, CPA, ABV, CVA, CFFA
I am grateful to NACVA for the honor of being
selected as an outstanding member for this quarter. I
have assisted in the NACVA organization and have
received so much more than I have given. The people I
have met through my NACVA affiliation have become
professional and personal friends. Their support
during a recent bout with cancer was uplifting. They
are too many to name, but they know who they are. My
firm encourages and supports professional and civic
involvement and I look forward to continuing my
relationship and work with NACVA and the membership.
I graduated from college at a time when we had yet to
land a man on the moon and we as a nation were asking
“why not” rather than “why.” Accounting was governed
by principles rather than rules. There were few
boundaries except those we set for ourselves. My first
significant job in public accounting was to design
“automated” accounting systems for closely – held
companies. There were no “how to” books. The only
systems being written about were the systems designed
by NASA to get a man to the moon and books on critical
path scheduling. We didn’t know we couldn’t do it! The
firm did design many systems, some of which are still
in use today.
The firm obtained their first certified audits at a
time I was squeezing systems design into an increasing
schedule of tax and financial statement preparation. I
then became the audit road warrior! After a few years,
PC’s and “off the shelf” systems came into existence
and I believed that the middle market client was
concerned more about taxation than their financial
statements (perceived as a necessary evil by the
client). I took graduate level tax courses at a local
law school, joined a national firm and for the next
fourteen years practiced in the area of taxation (and
ERISA) with several firms.
In 1994, tax practice was becoming more and more
commoditized. I looked back over my then 28 year
career and discovered of all the work I had “dabbled”
in I enjoyed litigation and valuation the most. I
started my BV training with the Illinois Society of
Certified Public Accountants’ programs that were
eventually absorbed by the AICPA and obtained my CEA
in Business Valuation followed shortly thereafter by
the NACVA FT&T course and my CVA in 1998. As a newly
minted CVA with limited experience, I answered a blind
ad for a BV/Litigation professional and prepared to
say good bye to the traditional practice of certified
public accounting. Turns out the litigation partner in
the firm that placed the ad was a professional
acquaintance and took the risk of hiring me with my
new CVA and limited experience. We are working
together today.
After I completed my tenth business valuation, I
obtained my ABV in 2000 followed not too long after by
the CFFA. In 2008, I was elected for a one year term
on the Litigation Forensics Board and in 2009 I was
appointed managing editor when NACVA acquired the
National Litigation Consultants’ Review. I look
forward to the future and continued involvement with
NACVA and, most of all, the people.
P. Dermot O’Neill
Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP
101 West Avenue
Jenkintown, PA 19046
doneill@amper.com |
