Biography

Ira has been in public accounting since 2004. He is a member of the firm’s Technology, Communications & Media Group and focuses on cost separations and regulatory compliance. He supervises consulting and assurance engagements for small and mid-sized rural telecommunication companies, providing cost study preparations and reviews, Universal Service Fund settlement studies, financial statement forecasts and projections, continuing property records, lead lag studies, state access rate development, RUS loan applications and forecasts, and financial statement preparation. His clients include wireline ILEC & CLEC commercial and cooperative enterprises, wireless and international carriers, cable television companies, fiber transport companies, and telephone associations.

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Preparing and Using Cost Studies
    (Moss Adams Telecom Seminars for the Rural Telecom Industry, October 2014)
  • Budgeting and Forecasting – A Road Map to Success
    (NTCA Finance & Accounting Conference, August 2014)
  • Cost Study Overview & Strategies
    (Moss Adams Telecom Seminars for the Rural Telecom Industry, October 2013)
  • FCC Regulatory Update
    (ANMTA Fall Conference, September 2013)

Education

  • BS, accounting, California State University, Stanislaus (magna cum laude)

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