Andrea Parness, CPA, CTC, is the owner of A. Parness Company, a progressive and tech-forward CPA firm based in Belle Harbor, Queens, NY. She has been in the field of public accounting for over 30 years. Her firm offers a broad range of traditional and non-traditional services including personal, corporate, and estate tax services, as well as tax minimization/strategic tax planning, business advisory and healthcare accounting services, cloud conversions, casualty losses and virtual CFO consulting. "We don't just put numbers in the boxes on your tax returns, we strategize with you so those numbers report your tax situation in the best possible light based upon current tax laws."Prior to starting her own firm in 1985, she was a partner in a small CPA firm located in Great Neck, NY and worked as an internal auditor and financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company. She brings her prior experience into play when assisting her current clients with their various business decisions.She is a member of the National Conference of CPA Practitioners (NCCPAP) Nassau –Suffolk Chapter, the AICPA, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPAS), and the Chinese American Society of CPAs. She currently serves as President of Education Foundation of the Nassau/Suffolk Chapter of NCCPAP and on the NYC advisory Council of Virtual Enterprises International. She is the past president of Nassau/Suffolk Chapter of NCCPAP and the Education Foundation of the Nassau/Suffolk Chapter of NCCPAP.Andrea has been interviewed by NPR, Life Kit, and NY1 regarding casualty losses and disaster prevention strategies for businesses, and other critical tax topics. She continues to lecture on panels of seminars on tax law and practice management for AICPA-DCPA, NCCPAP, NYSSCPA, Meltzer Lippe Annual Wealth and Taxation Conference, the Chinese American Society of CPAs annual symposium. Andrea received her B.A. in accounting from CUNY – Queens. She is known for starting each day walking on the beach (before her "real workout" and sharing pictures of the sunrise with friends and her weekly blog followers.