Brandon Pritchard

About Brandon Pritchard

I am currently a licensed Certified Public Accountant working at Cohen & Co as a Senior Tax Manager in Cleveland, OH. Cohen & Co is a leading professional services firm with 14 offices and over 800 employees offering accounting, tax, and consulting services to clients throughout the U.S.I worked for three years at West View Savings Bank in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, where I have obtained valuable customer service, banking, and financial experience. I also had a summer internship with Tucker Arensberg P.C, a law firm in Pittsburgh, PA, working in the accounting department where I prepared bank reconciliations, monthly expense reports, profit analysis reports, and day to day journal entry entries for the firm.I graduated from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio with my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Accountancy. During my time at John Carroll University, I was a member of the Accounting Association as well as played on the varsity John Carroll baseball team my sophomore and junior year of college.

Experience

1. Senior Tax Manager

   Cohen & Co

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Review and prepare 1040s, 1041s, 1120s, 1120Ss, 1065s, 5500s, 990-PFs, and 709s in CCH Axcess Tax software for a variety of clients in industries such as construction, financial, manufacturing, real estate, restaurant, service, and transportation.•Review and prepare state and local tax returns for our clients.•Advise clients on potential tax implications.•Provide industry knowledge and consulting services beneficial to our client\'s businesses.•Research tax laws and legislation issues to better serve and help our clients with tax advice and tax savings.•Address any tax notices from our clients to help alleviate any exposure of interest and penalties that were accrued.•Project tax income and estimated payments with the BNA Income Tax Planner software to help clients forecast future income, tax payments, and refunds.•Review and prepare workpapers for tax returns including fixed asset reconciliations, 263(A) adjustments, 481(a) adjustments, 754 adjustments, special allocations, other depreciation adjustments, city taxable income reconciliations, and apportionment calculations to name a few in ProSystem fx Engagement software.•Make any necessary adjusting journal entries, accrual to cash journal entries, and federal adjusting journal entries for preparation of tax returns.•Pod leader for the firm\'s Real Estate and PE funds vertical where I assisted in scheduling pod work and maintaining workflow across the pod.•Cohen & Co team manager

Education

• John Carroll University

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accountancy

  2010 — 2014