Quality Management: Performing a Root Cause Analysis

Jeanne Dee, Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC

Jeanne M. Dee, CPA/CGMA

Jeanne Dee is a partner in audit and assurance at Anders CPAs + Advisors, specializing in audits of financial statements for not-for-profit organizations, employee benefit plans, and closely held businesses. She currently serves as the practice leader for the Not-for-Profit Group at Anders. Jeanne enjoys working with business owners, executive directors, and board members to help them better understand the financial reporting process. As a leader on standards and regulations of the accountancy profession at the local, state, and national level, Jeanne is knowledgeable and skilled in researching accounting principles and new or changing audit standards and is a frequent author and speaker on these topics. Jeanne is a member of several professional organizations and currently serves as a member of the Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and as a member of the Report Acceptance Body, Peer Review Program with the Missouri Society of CPAs. Jeanne also serves her community as a board member of the YWCA of Metro St. Louis, and the Humane Society of Missouri. Jeanne received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Joe Lynch, AICPA

Joe has over 25 years of experience in technology, audit, and audit quality compliance with a focus on technology. At JGA, Joe is the IT Audit Advisory Services Leader and works with internal auditors, public and private companies, and regional and national mid-market public accounting firms to implement and to integrate technology into financial processes and improve the audit integration of engagement teams performing integrated audits and service organization reports. He also provides critical input to IT-specific requirements related to new QC standards implementation. As an Information Systems Inspection Leader for over 6 years at the PCAOB, he conducted inspections of QC and global issuer audits at large firms in the US as well as foreign affiliate firms, focusing on examining quality control and the design and implementation of audit work over IT and service organizations in integrated audits. Joe also has over 8 years of experience supporting financial service industry audit teams as a managing director at KPMG. In addition, his experience includes, over 6 years of active-duty service in the US Air Force and directly supporting companies with IT strategic initiatives such as designing the IT framework for technology departments as well as leading implementations of ERPs and systems.

Michael Brand, Member, BMSS Advisors and CPAs

Michael L. Brand is currently a member in the firm of BMSS, LLC working out of their Huntsville, AL office with an emphasis in auditing and accounting services, peer review, litigation support, and quality management. He has been in the practice of public accounting for over 34 years.

Mike is a member of the AICPAs Audit Standards Board and was formerly a member of the AICPA’s PCPS Technical Issues Committee, is a past chair of the Alabama Society of CPAs Board of Directors; past co-chair of the AICPA’s ENGAGE conference; and past chair and current member of the steering committee for National Advanced Accounting and Auditing Technical Symposium at ENGAGE. He serves as a committee member of the Partners in Peer Review of the ASCPA, and the AICPAs Attestation Standards Task Force. He also serves on the Accounting Advisory Council for the University of North Alabama. Previously, he was chair of the Accounting and Review Services Committee, on the Professional Ethics Executive Committee, Peer Review Board, Joint Trial Board, and Quality Control Standards Task Force of the AICPA.