Bill Mcfarland Email & Phone Number

Tempe, Arizona

McFarland-CPA, PC is an innovative and emerging firm providing tax and financial planning services to individuals and small businesses. Leveraging both proven and emerging technologies to harness hard-to-reach talent pools in the sharing economy as a member of the CPA Network Solutions community, the firm integrates design thinking, technology, and understanding of the Internal Revenue Code to maximize each client’s trajectory toward financial independence and to provide affordable, world-class services to small and medium businesses.

Al-Hilla, Kirkuk/Hawija, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Bogota, Washington Dc

Served in various positions in war, occupied, and armed-rebellion zones including:o political reporting officer (like a journalist but for U.S. government internal readers) with extensive program and project management duties, West Bank and Baghdado Interdiction Programs Chief in Bogota, Colombia where the team I led reorganized the effort toward interdiction of the value-adding, chokepoints in the cocaine value chain (fun with the national police!)o Provincial Reconstruction Team Local Governance Chief where my team jump-started district level governments in a hotly-contested part of Iraq's Sunni Triangleo Provided political advisor expertise to Senior Army leaders conducting operations in Iraq

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Learned the ropes of the accounting industry in both public and private sectors, including consulting and tax work. Held management positions including assistant controller of a major, non-profit international business school (Thunderbird) and the local branch of a national nonprofit.Maintained advisory relationship with key clients while serving overseas in the U.S. Foreign Service.

Various

Active duty infantry and Latin America Foreign Area Officer (The U.S. Army's regional language, culture, and political economy experts and advisers). Reserve duty Transportation Corp, Logistics and Latin American FAO. Operation Enduring Freedom veteran. Served as a political military advisor to the senior commander in Afghanistan.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Military Strategic Studies, General

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Business

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Latin American Studies

Political Science and Economics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: Post Bac Certificate of Accounting

Education record