Accounting and Auditing Update (E1905079)

Laura Crowley is a Partner in *Citrin Cooperman’s New Jersey office, focusing on serving the needs of middle market business leaders by learning about their business aspirations and translating them into prudent actionable recommendations. Laura excels at understanding and unraveling complex financial accounting and reporting matters, and the business needs that impact them. She brings her extensive network of professionals to solve her client’s biggest challenges with impactful results. Laura is also a partner in the firm's Quality Control Department helping to ensure that each of Citrin Cooperman's clients receive the highest level of attention.

Laura mentors, coaches, and develops the next generation of internal and external accounting professionals. Her clients are primarily in the financial services, manufacturing and distribution, and restaurant and hospitality industries. Laura is passionate about ensuring that the future of the firm and the profession provide for equal opportunity and fairness in the workplace. She is the winner of NJCPA's Ovation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award (2021), Volunteer Award (2018), and Women of Note (2016), among others.

*“Citrin Cooperman” is the brand under which Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm, and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC serve clients’ business needs. The two firms operate as separate legal entities in an alternative practice structure.

Steven J. Friedman advises employers on a variety of aspects of employee benefits law including:

• The structuring and implementation of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans
• Welfare and fringe benefits programs
• Early retirement programs
• Severance plans

• Deferred compensation
• Supplemental executive retirement arrangements
• Stock-related compensation
• Stock appreciation rights
• Phantom stock plans
• Stock option plans

John oversees the industry specific expertise and risk management for McGowanPRO’s accounting and financial clients. Mr. Raspante is the former Director of Compliance and Risk Management as well as the Director of Education for Graf Repetti & Co. LLP, Certified Public Accountants & Business Advisors. Prior to joining Graf Repetti, Mr. Raspante worked nine years for CAMICO Mutual Insurance Company, a provider of accountants’ professional liability insurance. Mr. Raspante’s primary responsibility at CAMICO was providing loss prevention services to the organization’s largest insured’s. Mr. Raspante is a frequent speaker within the accounting profession on issues relating to risk management and professional ethics. He presents regularly at different conferences for accounting firm associations and CPA State Societies. He is a published author and contributor for accounting firm periodicals such as Journal of Accountancy and Accounting Today.

June is a principal at WilkinGuttenplan and is the president of the NJCPA for the 2024/25 term. She has been a member of the NJCPA since 1995 and has served in a variety of capacities, including the Peer Review Executive Committee, Strategic Planning Committee and Volunteer Relations Committee, and was chair of the NJ-CPA-PAC Board of Trustees, chair of the Committee Operations Committee and vice leader of the Business Valuation, Forensic & Litigation Services Interest Group. She is also an active participant in the Accounting & Auditing Standards and Nonprofit interest groups. Before WilkinGuttenplan, June was the managing member of zbt Certified Public Accounting & Consulting, LLC. She is a former treasurer of Garwood Municipal Library; a recipient of NJCPA’s Volunteer Award in 2018 and its Women to Watch Award in 2019; one of New Jersey Monthly’s Leading Women in 2015 and one of NJBIZ Accounting Power 50 from 2020 to 2022.