Thomas Ryan, CPA, MACC
Partner, A&A Lead
Thomas Ryan is a partner at Cooper Norman and leads the firm's Audit & Assurance work. He is who you talk to when a lender, a board, a buyer, or a regulator needs an independent read on your numbers and that read has to hold up under questioning. The first decision he helps an owner make is usually not what the statements say, but what level of assurance the situation actually calls for.
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About Thomas
Thomas leads Audit & Assurance, the work that happens when someone outside the business has to believe the numbers. A CPA with a MACC, he sits with owners before the fieldwork starts to sort out the questions that decide how the whole engagement goes: which level of assurance the lender or board will accept, what the process will ask of your controller, and how much of the year needs cleaning up before anyone opens the books.
The items that reach his desk are the ones the accounting software will not settle. When revenue belongs to this year instead of next. How a change in ownership gets recorded. Which gaps in the monthly close will show up later as findings. Because Cooper Norman has worked as one connected team since 1954, across six offices in Idaho and Utah, an audit question that turns into a tax question, a valuation question, or a transition question does not send you looking for another firm. It moves down the hall.
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