David Hardesty Email and Phone Number

Consultant, author, educator - financial reporting, taxation, corporate governanceDavid Hardesty is a CPA, a consultant, author, and educator in the fields of financial reporting, taxation and corporate governance. His financial reporting and tax consulting and accounting practice concentrates on the challenges facing small and medium size public companies, and technology companies.David is also an expert on audit committee operations (see his book, Corporate Director's Deskbook), and is available to serve on audit committees of public companies.In 1999, David completed his first major book, Electronic Commerce: Taxation and Planning, a pioneering effort to create an authoritative treatise covering all aspects of taxation related to electronic commerce. He has gone on to write seven books for Thomson Reuters on financial reporting, taxation and corporate governance. The following books by David are available from Thomson Reuters (for more information, see http://www.davidhardesty.com):Financial reporting and taxation:• Electronic Commerce: Taxation and Planning• Accounting for Stock Compensation• SEC Expert: Domestic Filers• Choice of Entity – Title 1 of Tax Advisors Planning System• Taxation of Electronic Commerce – Title 43 of Tax Advisors Planning SystemCorporate governance:• Practical Guide to Corporate Governance and Accounting: Implementing the Requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act• Corporate Director’s DeskbookDavid began teaching in Golden Gate University's Graduate School of Taxation in 1999. He currently teaches a course taxation of e-commerce. David also teaches international taxation in at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, at Northeastern University.Accounting Today voted David Hardesty one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting” for 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and CPA Magazine named him one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Practitioners,” for 2005 and 2007.Specialties: Financial reporting and taxation - technology companiesTaxation of electronic commerceStock compensation financial reporting and taxationSarbanes-Oxley complianceAudit committees of public companiesTaxation of limited liability companiesTaxation of S CorporationsSEC financial reporting