RALEIGH, N.C. (May 17, 2010) Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP (www.hpg.com), the largest CPA firm headquartered and staffed in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, is sponsoring a new organization called the RTP CFO Forum (www.rtpcfos.com). This monthly gathering of senior financial professionals will serve as a brain trust for area financial executives to exchange knowledge and experience.
The RTP CFO Forum meets the first Friday of every month, from 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., at the Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP offices at 1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, North Carolina. The June 4 meeting topic will be: Alternative Funding Sources - Looking Beyond Traditional Bank Loans and Venture Capital.
"An important part of the RTP CFO Forum is providing a professional network to discuss real business ideas and issues in a confidential and informal environment," says Bobby Bahram, member of the organizing committee and the CFO and COO for TransLoc Inc.
The RTP CFO Forum supports more than 200 senior financial executives in the greater Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region. Membership in the forum is free and by invitation only. To request to join the group, please email join@rtpcfos.com.
Forum committee member and CFO of Digitalsmiths Corporation Petra Weishaupt-Smith adds, "The forum is about providing local financial leaders helpful information from first hand experiences to make the best business decisions."
The first meeting was on February 5, 2010 and addressed revenue recognition under the new Emerging Issues Task Force abstracts 08-01 and 09-03 issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Over the past three months other topics discussed have included:
- Mergers & Acquisitions: Process, Execution, Trends and Lessons Learned
- Not Just Numbers: The Non-Financial Roles of the CFO
- What's in the News? Current Events Affecting Companies and Their Employees
Joining Bahram and Weishaupt-Smith on the organizing committee are CFOs Brett Farabaugh, Tryton Medical, Inc., and Chuck Osborne, Scynexis, Inc. HPG partners Heather Dean, CPA and Brooks Malone, CPA round out the organizers.
CFOs and senior financial professionals in similar positions can request to join the forum, register to attend the next meeting and volunteer to make a presentation or sit on an expert?s panel at www.rtpcfos.com.
About RTP CFO Forum:
The RTP CFO Forum serves the greater Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill region, supporting more than 200 senior financial executives. The forum is designed to provide interactive networking and discussion of technical and strategic topics in an environment created exclusively for senior-level peers. CPE is provided on select topics. The forum meets the first Friday of every month, from 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m., at the Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP offices on 1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 300, Raleigh, North Carolina. Free membership is by invitation only. To request to join the group, please email join@rtpcfos.com. To learn more, visit www.rtpcfos.com.
About Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP (HPG):
HPG is the largest CPA firm headquartered and staffed in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina, as ranked by the Triangle Business Journal. Furthermore, Business Leader magazine ranked HPG as the fifth most successful small business in North Carolina in 2008. HPG is able to provide national and global accounting resources to its clients through the CPAmerica firm network of 701 offices worldwide. HPG offers a wide array of business accounting, auditing, corporate tax, and management advisory services. Specialties include serving owner-managed, investor-backed technology and life science, healthcare services, real estate development, manufacturing and distribution businesses, and providing ERISA audits, family wealthcare services and Sarbanes-Oxley internal audit services. More than just an accounting firm, HPG assists clients in looking beyond the bottom linesm by being the right people, right value and right firm to achieve each client's definition of success. Visit www.hpg.com.