ACPEN Signature: Accounting and Auditing Update

Anne Oestriecher, CPA 
Alexandria, LA.

Anne began her career with Deloitte & Touche, spending 8 years in the audit department.  Her client base was focused on the financial service and not-for-profit industries.

In 1993, Anne moved to Hibernia National Bank, and served as the Accounting Policy & Control Manager.  She was responsible for implementing new accounting policies, educating directors, senior management and the finance group staff on various accounting issues, documenting internal controls in accordance with FDICIA and later, Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404.  She also managed accounting staff responsible for several technical accounting areas, and served as a consultant to other departments in writing and implementing new policies and procedures.

After the acquisition of Hibernia by Capital One in 2005, Anne began her own practice providing consulting services to small businesses and instructing continuing professional education for CPAs across the country. 

In 2009, she began working with Oestriecher Financial Management Services as an Advisory Representative, providing a full range of financial planning services to individual and small business clients.  She is fully licensed to offer investment and insurance products in several states.

Anne is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans, with a BBA in Accounting.  She is a member of the Society of Louisiana CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs.  She was named the "Outstanding Discussion Leader" in 2009 by the Society of Louisiana CPAs.

Jenifer Wyss is a Supervising Project Manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). She serves as the coordinator for both the Private Company Council (PCC) and the FASB's Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC). Since joining the FASB, Jenifer has worked on standard-setting projects in a variety of areas, for example, accounting for income taxes, statement of cash flows, stock compensation, and employee benefit plans. Before joining the FASB, Ms. Wyss spent 18 years in public accounting. Most of those years were spent at RSM where she was a Partner in their St. Louis office. Jenifer earned her B.S. in Accounting from Eastern Illinois University and is a certified public accountant in Missouri and Illinois.

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.