BNN Announces Staff Promotions!

July 1, 2010 - Charlie Hahn, Managing Principal of Baker Newman Noyes, and the principal group are pleased to announce the promotion of Nicole (Blaise) Prokos (not pictured), Jason Emery and Matt Vasil to Audit Managers.

Nicole joined BNN in 2005. She works in our Manchester, NH office and specializes in delivering audit services to our healthcare, not-for-profit and employee benefit plan clients. Also, Nicole is very active in coordinating many of the firm’s “grassroots” volunteer community involvement programs that take place in New Hampshire.

Jason also joined the firm in 2005. His expertise is focused on employee benefit plans, governmental agency and commercial business clients. Jason works in our Portland, ME office.

Matt also works in our Portland office and also joined us in 2005. Matt has experience working on compliance and audits of manufacturers and not-for-profit entities.

Also, the following members of our Audit Division were promoted to Audit Senior Accountant:

James Boissonneault
Danielle Decaro – Manchester, New Hampshire
Jeremy Dumond
Matt Fernandez
Mary Michaud
Michael Morse
Bill Newton
Nick Paquette

The entire firm joins the principals in congratulating these employees for their work, and for their contribution to the team, as well as their excellent service to our clients.

BNN Supports the Accounting Doctoral Scholars Program

Baker Newman Noyes is pleased to be partnering with 70 other firms in the accounting profession and 45 State Societies of Certified Public Accountants to provide substantial financial and other support to for the Accounting Doctoral Scholars (ADS) program administered through the AICPA Foundation.

As in other industries, there is a growing shortage of academically qualified accounting faculty.  Not only has the number of doctoral accounting faculty declined substantially over the last ten years, but a large percentage of accounting faculty are expected to retire over the next five to seven years.  Without adequate and qualified faculty, accounting programs and business schools may be forced to limit enrollment in undergraduate and masters programs in accounting.

Launched in 2008, the ADS program provides funding for up to 30 additional individuals each year for four years with a focus on those currently working in public accounting to help them make a permanent transition to teaching and research in accounting at the university level.  The funding supports application to doctoral programs in accounting and provides an annual stipend of $30,000 up to four years of enrollment.  Applicants must be committed to teaching and researching in auditing and tax—the areas of greatest need.

Applicants to the program must be U.S. citizens and have three years of recent meaningful public accounting experience in auditing or tax.  A full description of the program, complete eligibility requirements, application procedures and a current list of participating universities are available on line at www.adsphd.org.

BNN is proud to be part of this effort to attract to the classroom individuals who have demonstrated successful performance in the practice of public accounting.  The future of the profession and our firm depends upon having the best and brightest faculty possible preparing the next generation of accounting graduates. If you have any questions, or you would like additional information, contact Perry St. Louis at pstlouis@bnncpa.com.

BNN Welcomes New Hires!

May 2010 - Baker Newman Noyes is happy to announce the hiring of two new employees Jana Purrell and Michael Morse.

Jana Purrell is a Manager in BNN’s Healthcare Consulting Division. Jana joined the firm after having previously worked as a Practice Administrator for nine hospital-based physician practices. Jana has extensive experience working in various settings including primary care, specialty and multi-specialty physician practices. Jana specializes in coding, reimbursement, chart reviews and provider education.

Jana earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Westbrook College; she also is a Certified Professional Coder with Instructor certification, and holds a Certification in Evaluation and Management Chart Auditing.

Jana will be working on developing and delivering training and education programs in our Healthcare Consulting Division targeted to the needs of our clients and the market.
Michael Morse recently joined our Audit Division and is based in our Portland office. Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Accounting from the University of Maine and a Master of Science degree in Accounting. He joined BNN after working at the firm of Ernst & Young in their Manchester, New Hampshire office.

We welcome Jana and Mike to BNN!

Baker Newman Noyes Announces New Principals and Promotions

January 2010 - Baker Newman Noyes announces that Peter W. Tawney, CPA has joined the firm as an Audit Principal in the Manchester, New Hampshire office. Most recently, Peter worked at Ernst & Young where he led the New England area employee benefit plan audit practice

The firm also pleased to announce the promotion of Joan Smith, CPA to Tax Principal. Joan returned to BNN in 2004 after having previously having worked at one of our predecessor firms.

Stuart Lyons has also been promoted to Tax Principal. He also leads the firm’s International Tax Practice. Stuart joined the firm in 2008 from Braver, PC in Newton, MA.

In addition, the firm announces the following staff promotions:

To Senior Manager
Madeline Tipton – IT Consulting Division

To Manager
Ann Lakeman – Tax Division
Jacqueline Leclair – IT Consulting Division

To Supervising Senior Accountant
Sarah Desormiers – Tax Division
James Gaddis – Tax Division
Desmond Gilliard – Tax Division
Brandi Good – Tax Division
Kimberly Kotlin – Tax Division

To Senior Accountant
Gib Foltz – Tax Division
John Hadwen – Tax Division
Natalie Solotoff – Tax Division
Melissa Belden – Tax Division

Baker Newman Noyes Named One of the Best Places to Work in Maine

Portland, ME – August 21, 2009 - The Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Maine State Council has named the winners of the 2009 "Best Places to Work in Maine" program.

Baker Newman & Noyes, LLC (BNN) CPAs and Business consultants headquartered in Portland, Maine is pleased to announce that the firm was named as one of the 2009 Best Places to Work in Maine. This is the second straight year that BNN has won this award; it follows the firm recently being named a 2009 New Hampshire Business of the Year.

The Best Places to Work in Maine is a statewide survey and awards program designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Maine, benefiting the state's economy, its workforce and businesses. The 2009 Best Places to Work in Maine list is made up of 24 companies in the small/medium-sized list (15-249 employees) and 7 companies in the large-sized list (250+ employees).

To be considered for participation, companies had to fulfill the following eligibility requirements:

• Have at least 15 employees working in Maine;
• Be a for-profit or not-for-profit business or government entity;
• Be a publicly or privately held business;
• Have a facility in the state of Maine; and
• Must be in business a minimum of 1 year.

Companies from across the state entered the two-part process to determine the Best Places to Work in Maine. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. This part of the process was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking.

BNN will be recognized and honored at an awards ceremony on October 13th and will be profiled in a special publication by Mainebiz. The final rankings will be announced at the event.

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