Warren Ruppel
Warren Ruppel, CPA, began his career in 1979 with KPMG after graduating from St. John’s University, New York. He served numerous audit clients, including many not-for-profit organizations and governments that received federal financial assistance. In 1989, he joined Deloitte & Touche to specialize in audits of not-for-profit organizations and governments.
Mr. Ruppel has since served as the chief financial officer of a not-for-profit organization subject to the requirements of A-133, as a partner in a small CPA firm, and as an assistant comptroller for accounting for a large municipal government. He has written and conducted numerous training courses and seminars over the course of his career and is widely published in the areas of not-for-profit and governmental accounting and auditing. In addition, he has taught for the New York State Society of CPAs and has been an Adjunct Lecturer of Accountancy at the Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York.
Mr. Ruppel is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of CPAs, where he is a member of the Audit Committee and serves on the Not-for-Profit Accounting and Governmental Accounting and Auditing Technical Committees. He is a former president of the New York chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants. He is also a member of the Special Review Committee of the Government Finance Officers Association.
Phil is a Managing Director and a member of the Nonprofit, Government and Healthcare Group located in our Woodbury, New York office, who has been serving clients since 2012. A CPA, Certified Government Financial Manager and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, he is recognized as a national resource for government and nonprofit accounting. Phil regularly leads training sessions for professional staff and has given seminars on behalf of the New York State Government Finance Officers Association, New York State Association of School Business Officials, New Jersey Society of Certified Professional Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors (Long Island Chapter). He is a discussion leader and instructor for the AICPA and Surgent Professional Education on subjects including governmental and nonprofit accounting and auditing.