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Dan is the one of the firm's Audit and Consulting Partners. In this capacity, Dan is a frequent lecturer on numerous management and technical audit topics and provides management-consulting services to clients in a variety of industries, including other CPA firms. Dan has served high technology companies, manufacturers, financial institutions, venture capital firms, professional service firms, and nonprofit organizations, among others. Dan's experience includes work in audit and accounting, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, budgeting, asset/liability management, profit enhancement and international banking, as well as consulting related to clergy taxation. Dan also has obtained his Series 7 and Series 66 securities licenses that enable him to provide wealth management services to clients and prospective clients through the firm's affiliation with Wealth Management Advisory Group, LLC. (WMAG). WMAG works with the firm's professional staff to provide coordinated services related to wealth accumulation, wealth preservation, and wealth transfer. Dan is an alumnus of two international accounting firms and attended the National Banking School at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, an intensive, detailed training class related to various banking related topics. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration, with an emphasis in accounting and management, from Duquesne University. An active member of the American and Pennsylvania Institutes of Certified Public Accountants, Dan presently serves on the PICPA's Management of an Accounting Practice Committee and is the Chair of the PICPA Peer Review Committee. In the past, Dan also served on the PICPA's Committee on Ethics. The responsibilities of the Committee on Ethics included cooperation with the Pennsylvania State Board of Accountancy and the AICPA in matters of professional ethics and disciplinary proceedings, answering inquiries regarding the Code of Professional Ethics, suggesting amendments, and investigating alleged code violations. Dan continues to be one of the most utilized peer reviewers in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Goff Backa Alfera & Company, LLC is a member of the AICPA's PCPS and Center for Public Company Audit Firms (formerly SECPS) Practice Sections, Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center, Governmental Audit Quality Center, and is affiliated with INPACT Americas, an international network of professional CPAs. Dan is active in his church and in coaching youth athletics in his home community of Mt. Lebanon, where he serves as a board member of the Mt. Lebanon Blue Devil Club. | 