Ed is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Association Executive and has spent his entire career in not-for-profit financial management, having served as the Controller of the national office of Associated Builders and Contractors and as the Finance and Membership Director of the American Correctional Association.

He left management in 1993 when the United States Chamber of Commerce named him Faculty Chair for Finance for their Institutes for Organization Management program. He also speaks regularly for the American Society of Association Executives, the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus, the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, the American Bar Association and the American Institute of CPAs.

Ed has authored five books on not-for-profit financial management:

• Model Accounting and Financial Policies and Procedures

• Budgeting and Financial Management

• Essential Accounting , Tax and Reporting Requirements

• Fringe Benefit Programs for Not-For-Profit Organizations

• Fraud and Embezzlement: How it Happens and How to Avoid it A Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations

Ed now concentrates on speaking, writing and consulting on financial management topics, he lives near Baltimore, Maryland, enjoys coaching youth sports and motor cross racing and has had a novel published, THE AUDIT.

Finance, Consulting,