Join our webcast, Regulatory Shifts and Implications of the Budget Reconciliation Bill, for an exploration of key developments in the legislative and regulatory landscape. We’ll focus on the latest budget reconciliation bill and its implications.

A panel of professionals from Baker Tilly will provide updates on SEC and PCAOB activities, tax changes, and broader regulatory shifts affecting public companies, breaking down what’s changing, what it means, and what you need to do now to stay ahead.

John Donohue, CPA, Principal, Baker Tilly

John works with public and private company audit clients, in addition to consulting with clients and engagement teams on a variety of technical auditing and accounting matters. In 2012 he completed a two-year fellowship in the Office of the Chief Accountant of the SEC, where his responsibilities included consulting on technical accounting matters and monitoring the FASB’s standard-setting projects. While at the SEC, John also participated in the staff’s IFRS Work Plan, presented to the AICPA Banking Conference, and consulted with other regulators on a variety of topics. Prior to his fellowship at the SEC, John spent eight years in the Portland office of Moss Adams, auditing public and private companies in a variety of industries.

Porter Loud, CPA, Principal, Baker Tilly

Porter is a principal in the firm’s Professional Practice Group. He focuses on complex technical accounting and SEC reporting matters, advising firm personnel and clients on the application of US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and other financial reporting requirements.

Porter served for three years at the SEC as a Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA). During his time at the SEC, he worked closely with standard setters and other SEC staff while performing technical accounting consultations and supporting SEC rulemaking activities. Porter led OCA’s crypto-asset topic team and also focused on matters related to revenue recognition, financial instruments, business combinations, and consolidations.

Porter began his career in public accounting in 2009, providing assurance and advisory services to clients across a variety of industries.

Christopher Hanna, Director, Baker Tilly

Christopher has been working in tax and tax law since 1989. His primary focus is on tax laws in transaction services, international taxation, corporate taxation, partnership taxation and tax accounting. He works with tax law clients across industries.

He’s the Alan D. Feld endowed professor of law at Southern Methodist University and has been a visiting professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the University of Texas School of Law, and the University of Tokyo School of Law.

He assisted the US Joint Committee on Taxation in its complexity study of the US tax system, the joint committee in its Enron study, and as a consultant to the joint committee on tax legislation. He has also served as senior policy advisor for tax reform to the US Senate Committee on Finance.

Andy Cates, CPA, Principal, Baker Tilly

Andy has worked in public accounting since 1995. He is the firmwide leader for public and private company financial statement reporting of income taxes (ASC 740). He also specializes in the areas of share-based compensation, internal controls, and valuation allowances. Andy has been awarded the Moss Adams Technical Excellence Award for tax services twice—once in 2005 and again in 2010.