ACPEN Signature: Financial Statement Preparation - Compilation and Review Update

James A. (Jim) Smith, CPA, CGMA, serves as Managing Director of Smith, Jackson, Boyer & Bovard, PLLC, a Dallas Certified Public Accounting firm. He practices extensively in tax compliance, planning and controversy representation for individuals and entrepreneurial businesses. He also is engaged in the preparation, compilation and review of financial statements; exit strategy planning for entrepreneurs; merger and acquisition planning and transactions; and forensic accounting and litigation services.

Mr. Smith served as Chair of the Texas Society of CPAs (TSCPA) for the 2007-2008 year, and as a member of its Professional Standards and Federal Tax Policy Committees since their inception. He served as a member of the AICPA Council 2007 through 2011 and from 2012 through 2015. He also served as an appointed member of two of the AICPA's key standard setting committees: the Accounting and Review Services Committee from 2008 through 2011 and the Tax Practice Responsibilities Committee, 2014 to 2017.

Mr. Oestriecher has been employed by Oestriecher & Company; CPA's since 1986 and has been partner in charge of accounting and auditing services since 1994. He has also served as an Adjunct Instructor of Accounting at Louisiana State University at Alexandria and Northwestern State University.

Kurt functions in many capacities for the Louisiana Society of CPAs on its board and varying committees. He is Past President of the LCPA and past President of the Central Louisiana Chapter of Society of Louisiana CPAs. He is currently chair of the LCPA Professional Ethics Committee. He is a member of the AICPA and has served on the Accounting and Review Services Committee, which issues the Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services. He also served a six year term on the AICPA Joint Trial Board, and recently completed a three year term on AICPA Council

He received the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award from the Louisiana Society of CPAs in 1998, 2006, and 2010, and the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.

Laura A. Billingsley, CPA, is a senior technical editor of PPC products for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, in Fort Worth, Texas, where she is responsible for the technical content and annual update of several PPC products, including PPC's Guide to Compilation and Review Engagements, and PPC's Checkpoint e-Tools. She is a coauthor of PPC's Guide to PCAOB Audits, PPC's Guide to Religious Organizations, and PPC's Guide to Fraud Risk Assessment: Implementing SAS 99 and Related Guidance.

Before joining PPC, she was a senior audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she managed audit, business assurance, and consulting engagements for a wide variety of domestic and international clients.

Ms. Billingsley is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She has a M.S. degree in accounting, a Masters degree in education, and a B.S. degree with a major in mathematics.