Chattanooga Chapter July Meeting

Dr. Perry Moore is the Charles E. Frasier Chair of Accountancy, Director of the MAcc Program, and Director of Assessment at Lipscomb University's Pfeffer Graduate School of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor, and is Certified in Risk Management Assurance. A Nashville native, Perry graduated from Lipscomb with a degree in accounting and then completed his graduate studies at the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia.

For the Tennessee Society of CPA's, Perry is a member of their Scholarship Committee. Perry has also directed their "Accounting Academy", a program designed to attract high school students to accounting careers.

Perry is active in the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has served as a Past-President of their Nashville Chapter. Perry is also a Past-President of Delta Mu Delta, an international honor society for business majors, where he currently serves as Treasurer.

Perry provides training for CPAs across the state of Tennessee on Professional Ethics. In 2023, the Tennessee Society of CPAs named Perry as a TSCPApex Award recipient in honor of his exemplary efforts and achievements in advancing the accounting profession through his leadership on the Tennessee State Specific Ethics CPE Program.

Perry serves as a member of the CPE Standards Working Group for the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). In 2015, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs honored Perry with their International Teaching Excellence Award. In 2022, the AICPA honored Perry with the Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award. He has also received teaching awards from the Tennessee Society of CPAs, Lipscomb University, and the University of Georgia.

Robert Vance has practiced as a CPA for 38 years and today is a full-time forensic CPA and fo-rensic economist concentrating his practice on business valuation, divorce litigation support, commercial lost profits and personal injury economic damage calculations, forensic investigations and expert witness testimony. He is the principal of Forensic & Valuation Services, PLC with offices in Memphis and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

He has qualified as an expert and testified in 162 trials and hearings, 31 with a jury, in 57 differ-ent courts and has been appointed by judges as a Special Master 5 times. Additionally, Rob's tes-timony has been referenced in over 30 Tennessee appellate cases.

Rob was appointed by the Governor of Tennessee in 2021 as a member of the Tennessee State Board of Accountancy. He is a Past-President of the Memphis Chapter of the Tennessee Society of CPAs (TSCPA) and is a past-chairman of the Forensic & Valuation Services Conference Plan-ning Committee of the TSCPA. He has served as an officer on several non-profit Boards includ-ing the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis and The Phoenix Club of Memphis.