2018 Governmental Accounting Update Conference Speakers

The 2018 OSC Governmental Accounting Update Conference will offer four dynamic speakers! Here are their introductions, listed alphabetically.
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David Bean

David R. Bean is the director of research and technical activities for the Governmental Accounting 
Standards Board.  He assigns and provides oversight to the GASB’s research, technical, and 
administrative activities.

Prior to joining the GASB in 1990, David worked in public accounting and government. He also has 
served as Deputy Chairman of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB).  
He was the lead author on the 1988 Governmental Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting and 
was the founder of the GAAFR Review.  He was the last director of the National Council on 
Governmental Accounting before the formation of the GASB in 1984.

David is a member of the Government Finance Officers Association, the Connecticut and Illinois 
Government Finance Officers Associations, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 
the Illinois CPA Society, the Association of Government Accountants, the National Federation of 
Municipal Analysts, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.

Carlene Kamradt

As a Senior Manager with Cherry Bekaert, Carlene is a member of the Firm’s Government
Contractor Services and Government Services Industry Groups. With more than 15
years in public accounting, she has honed her knowledge in the areas of financial
audits and testing of internal controls for government contractors, local governments,
and nonprofits. Areas of focus include compliance with Generally Accepted Auditing
Standards and Government Auditing Standards, including Single Audits performed
under the Uniform Guidance. She serves as a quality reviewer of the Firm’s audits
of government contractors and local governments. She also provides accounting,
consulting, and financial statement review and audit services to local governments and
commercial and nonprofit government contractors in a variety of industries.

Carlene assists clients in developing and implementing appropriate internal controls and
documenting compliance with federal requirements, including the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR). She also assists clients with system reviews, indirect rate structures,
incurred cost submissions, and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits. She is
a valued speaker and has developed and presented seminars and training sessions on
government contracting.

Jonathan Kraftchick

Jonathan is Cherry Bekaert’s Managing Director of
Training and Development for the Assurance & Accounting
Services group, where he is responsible for overseeing
much of the Firm’s audit training, course development and
delivery. He has spent more than 15 years conducting audit
engagements for a variety of companies and industries
throughout the country, as well as writing and delivering
courses both inside and outside of the Firm.

Outside of his work at Cherry Bekaert, Jonathan served as
an adjunct professor at Elon University in their accounting
department. In 2015, Jonathan was awarded the “Taking
it to the Max” award by the NCACPA, which honors the
legacy of former NCACPA Chair Maximo Mukelabai. He
has also received NCACPA’s 5.0 Discussion Leader Award
and their Outstanding Seminar Discussion Leader award on
several occasions.

In 2017, Jonathan participated and placed second runner-up
in CPA.com’s Innovative Practitioner of the Year, which
recognizes innovation in process, services or technology
implementation in public accounting firms.

Rusty Pounds

An experienced criminal investigator, auditor and corporate consultant for over 19 years,
William is a Manager in Cherry Bekaert’s Fraud & Forensics practice. He specializes
in consulting assistance to clients in numerous industries, with an emphasis on fraud
investigation, public corruption, embezzlement, fraud prevention, mortgage fraud and
financial crime enforcement operations. William is also a member of the Firm’s Fraud and
Forensics group, assisting clients with forensic accounting, fraud examination services,
fraud risk management, litigation support of financial crimes and defalcations and data
analysis.

William’s background includes working on several federal task force cases with
the Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Secret Service, and state agencies and prosecutors. Prior to joining Cherry
Bekaert, he was a Special Agent within the Financial Crime Investigation Unit of the
North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. In this capacity, William conducted criminal
investigations involving embezzlement, false pretense, conspiracy, forgery and extortion,
as well as violations of the U.S. criminal code to include bank fraud, wire fraud, mail
fraud, the Hobbs Act and money laundering.

A sought-after speaker, William has developed and presented several lectures on identify
theft, investigations of white collar crimes, and other financial crime topics.