KRAFTCPAS - Key Persons
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- Member in the Assurance Services Department
- Member of the Assurance Services
Alex Dawald is a member in the assurance services department of KraftCPAs. He is responsible for planning and executing engagements, maintaining client relationships, and managing/reviewing the work of his team, and preparing and presenting reports to clients.
Alex primarily focuses on providing audits, reviews, compilations, and consulting services for clients in the healthcare industry. He is also a leader with the firm's employee benefits team.
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- Human Resources Associate and Recruiter
Allison Pate is a human resources associate and recruiter for KraftCPAs and its affiliate companies. She is responsible for assisting the senior recruiter and the director of human resources to develop and implement employment initiatives, identify and engage talented professionals for key positions throughout the firm, and coordinate and supervise onsite recruiting events at universities, colleges, and other locations across the United States.
Allison joined Kraft in 2019. She has previous human resource experience in the agricultural and manufacturing industries.
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- Senior Manager
- Senior Manager in the Client Accounting and Advisory Services Department
Amanda Taylor is a senior manager in the client accounting and advisory services department of KraftCPAs. Her responsibilities include planning and executing engagements, building client relationships, and managing/reviewing the work of other team members.
Amanda has experience with financial statement preparation, consulting, and QuickBooks accounting software training, as well as business, individual, sales, personal property, and payroll tax return preparation. She works extensively with small to mid-sized, closely held businesses, including those in the service, investment management, and real estate industries.
Amanda started her professional career with Kraft in 1996.
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- Senior Manager
- Regulatory Compliance Senior Manager With
- Senior Manager, Banking
Amy Greene is a regulatory compliance senior manager with KraftCPAs. She works exclusively with the firm's financial institutions clients to provide risk-based compliance review, consulting, and internal audit services. She also works with and trains clients to strengthen their compliance programs. Amy has experience with:
BSA/AML/OFAC
Regulation Z
RESPA
HMDA, Regulation C
Fair Lending
Equal Credit Opportunity Act, Regulation B
Flood Disaster Protection Act
FACTA
Fair Credit Reporting Act
UDAAP
Homeowners Protection Act
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
Sales of Credit Insurance Products
Service members Civil Relief Act
Community Reinvestment Act
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
Amy provides tax compliance, consulting, planning and research services for individuals and businesses. She has extensive experience with pass-through entities (partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations) in multiple industries including real estate and healthcare. In addition, she works closely with individuals and small businesses on tax and accounting matters including process improvements, planning, and consulting.
Amy began her career in public accounting with Matheney Stees & Associates (MSA) in 2006 and joined KraftCPAs in 2020 after MSA was acquired by KraftCPAs.
Amy Thompson is a member-in-charge in the client accounting and advisory services group at KraftCPAs. In addition to overseeing quality control and administration for the practice, Amy is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships, managing and reviewing the work of engagement teams, and presenting completed projects to clients.
Amy works extensively with small to mid-sized businesses across multiple industries, including manufacturing, entertainment, hospitality, real estate, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, and advertising. Her background in performance measurement and management is critical to helping her clients establish and reach strategic goals. She also works with entrepreneurs to record and maximize financial data as a decision-making tool.
Amy has extensive experience with multiple accounting-related software packages and is particularly proficient in the Microsoft Dynamics GP and QuickBooks programs. Those tools are utilized by many clients for in-house accounting functions.
Amy has been with KraftCPAs since her professional career began in 1999.
Brad Koenig is a member in the KraftCPAs client accounting and advisory services group. He is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships, overseeing the work of engagement teams, reviewing and approving work products, and presenting our work to clients.
Brad's duties include tax research, consulting, planning, and compliance for both businesses and individuals. His background includes work with clients in retail, service, nonprofit, consumer financing, restaurants, and recreation. Brad also provides QuickBooks training and support.
Brad, who joined Kraft in 2016, began his career in public accounting in 2007. He previously owned a company with $3.6 million in annual revenue, giving him firsthand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities that our entrepreneurial clients face.
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- Compliance Supervisor With Kraft Healthcare Consulting
- Supervisor, Coding and Compliance / Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC
Brittney McClafferty is a coding and compliance supervisor with Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC (KHC), an affiliate of KraftCPAs. In this role, she consults with healthcare providers regarding billing and coding compliance and performs coding and documentation audits.
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- Supervisor and Senior Analyst / Kraft Analytics, LLC
- Supervisor and Senior Analyst With Kraft Analytics
Carson Mayhall is a supervisor and senior analyst with Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs.
Carson has extensive experience related to business valuation, equity interests, intellectual property, and other intangible assets. He works with clients in a variety of industries on complex engagements involving managerial planning, lending, investment, accounting, tax, marital dissolution, restructuring, and litigation.
His additional experience in forensic accounting services provides valuable insight for clients faced with complex financial situations.
Prior to joining Kraft in 2016, Carson worked at a Knoxville law firm as a law clerk.
Education
BS in Business Administration, concentration in Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management, University of Tennessee
Expertise
Services
Litigation Support and Forensics
Job Titles:
- Member in the Assurance Services Department
- Member of the Assurance Services
- Practice Leader
Chris Hight is a member in the assurance services department of KraftCPAs. In that position, Chris is responsible for building and maintaining client relationships, overseeing the work of engagement teams, approving final reports, and presenting reports to clients' management teams and boards of directors.
Additionally, Chris provides a variety of services, including external audits, reviews, agreed-upon procedures, merger and acquisition assistance, sale side/buy side quality of earnings calculations, due diligence, and litigation support.
Chris is a practice leader for the firm's manufacturing/wholesale/distribution (MWD) industry team. He has experience with MWD clients ranging from start-ups to large manufacturers with operations in foreign countries and U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies. His MWD clients have included manufacturers of food, chemicals, medical equipment, firearms, furniture, trailers, clothing, agricultural equipment, luggage, and injection molds, paper product distributors, and stamping and metal fabricators/suppliers in the automotive and aerospace industries.
Chris also serves as a practice leader for the firm's employee benefits team, where he oversees more than three dozen employee benefit plan audits annually. He has extensive experience interacting with third-party administrators, plan custodians, and ERISA attorneys.
Prior to joining KraftCPAs in 2004, Chris was senior vice president and CFO of a cellular tower company, where he supervised the acquisition of the company in a transaction worth nearly $100 million. He also worked as an audit manager for a national accounting firm, where he managed audits of both public and private companies. Chris has more than 25 years of public accounting and four years of private accounting experience.
As a Columbia, Tenn., resident, Chris maintains an office in Columbia office as well as the Nashville location of KraftCPAs.
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- Human Resources Firm Administrator
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Member of the Search Team
- Member of the Client Accounting and Advisory Services
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- Manager / Kraft Analytics, LLC
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Managing Member / Kraft Analytics, LLC
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- Member of the Assurance Services
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- Member of the Search Team
- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
- Trust and Estate
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- Member / Kraft Analytics, LLC
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- Senior Manager, Assurance Services
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- Senior Manager, Assurance Services
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- Member of the Assurance Services
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- Senior Manager, Assurance Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Member of the Search Team
- Senior Manager
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Member of the Tax Services
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- Director, Coding and Compliance / Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC
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- Member of the Tax Services
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- Member of the Search Team
- Manager / Kraft Analytics, LLC
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- Member of the Search Team
- Office Manager
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- Member of the Assurance Services
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- Supervisor, Risk Assurance and Advisory Services
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- Member of the Search Team
- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services
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- President / Kraft Healthcare Consulting, LLC
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- Director, Human Resources
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- Chief
- Manager
- Member of the Search Team
- Professional Service Firms
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- Senior Manager, Assurance Services
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- Senior Manager, Tax Services