Cpa Edward MendlowitzEdward Mendlowitz, CPA, is a partner at WithumSmith+Brown, PC, and is one of Accounting Today's 100 Most Influential People. Ed is the author of 28 books, and has written over 1500 articles and blogs and developed and presented over 350 professional peeches, CPE programs, and webinars. Ed won the Lawler Award for the best article in 2001 in the Journal of Accountancy, The Eddie Award in 2018 from Folio Magazine for his Art of Accounting series in Accounting Today, and the 2019 Innovation in Accounting History Education Award by the American Accounting Association's Accounting Historians Section. His practice management techniques are posted weekly at CPATrendlines.com, accountingtoday.com and have been reported on in The Wall Street Journal, the Journal of Accountancy, and many other publications. His twice a week blog is posted at www.withum.com/partners-network-blog Ed is accredited as a personal financial specialist, in business valuations, and in financial forensics by the AICPA; is admitted to practice and has argued cases before the United States Tax Court; testified twice before the House Ways and Means Committee on Tax Reform, Fairness and Equity; is a professor in the Fairleigh Dickinson University MBA program; is on the editorial board of QuickReadBuzz blog, the co-editor of The CPA Journal's Personal Financial Planning column, and has been on the Bottom Line / Personal Panel of Experts for Taxes since the publication's inception and is the author of their monthly tax blog. Ed has also been a team captain and conducted quality and peer reviews of CPA practices. In 2017 Ed was inducted into the Estate Planning Hall of Fame. Read More Read Less