Biography
Sheila has practiced public accounting since 2006. She primarily works with government contractors and not-for-profit clients. She has significant experience conducting audits in accordance with the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), Government Auditing Standards, the Single Audit Act and the Federal Acquisition Regulation. She’s a frequent speaker at state and local conferences and serves as a member of the firm’s single audit technical committee responsible for developing training, audit programs, and templates and providing comments on drafts of the compliance supplement and updates to AICPA audit guides.
Sheila provides a wide range of services, including the coordination and execution of all aspects of financial statement audits; consolidations of various entities; reviews and compilations; single audit compliance, FAR and DOW compliance audits; and research, resolution, and implementation of complex accounting issues including FASB and GASB frameworks.
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Introduction to Government Contract Accounting
(Government Contract Accounting Workshop, May 2015) - Internal Controls
(Association of Government Accountants Conference, March 2015) - Internal Controls
(NMCCS Annual Conference, October 2014) - Uniform Grant Guidance
(Government Finance Experts Cluster, May 2014)
Professional Affiliations
- Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Member, New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Member, Association of Government Accountants
Education
- BBA, accounting, University of New Mexico
- MACCT, University of New Mexico