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Program Sponsors

The ADS Program is funded by several of the largest accounting firms and state CPA societies. The program is administered by the AICPA Foundation, a 50l(c) (3) nonprofit entity. The leaders of the largest firms spearheaded the creation of the program and other major firms have joined in funding the program, with all fundraising coordinated through the AICPA Foundation.

The program sponsors are committed to helping address the shortage of accounting faculty by providing funding for the ADS Program and by encouraging members of their organizations to consider becoming accounting faculty members. They are the catalysts to positive change. Below is a list of the funding entities, to date, for the ADS Program.

Sponsoring firms*:

Anton Collins Mitchell LLP
Aronson & Co.
Baker Tilly International:
    Amper, Politziner & Mattia PC
    Baker, Newman & Noyes LLC
    Beers & Cutler PLLC
    Blum Shapiro & Company, PC
    Cherry Bekaert & Holland, LLP
    Cohen & Company
    Eisner LLP
    Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP
    Parente Randolph, LLC
    Rachlin LLP
    The Rehmann Group LLC
    RubinBrown LLP
    Virchow, Krause & Company LLP
    Vitale, Caturano & Company, PC
    Weaver and Tidwell LLP
BDO Seidman, LLP
Beard Miller Company LLP
Berdon LLP
BKD, LLP
Blackman Kallick, LLP
Brady, Martz & Associates, PC
Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLP
CBIZ, Inc and Mayer Hoffman McCann, PC
Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co.
Clifton Gunderson LLP
Crowe Horwath LLP
Deloitte LLP
Dixon Hughes PLLC
Ehrhardt, Keefe, Steiner & Hottman PC
Eide Bailly LLP
Elliott, Davis LLC
Ernst & Young LLP
Goodman & Company, LLP
Grant Thornton LLP
Grassi & Co., CPAs, PC
Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Company, LLP
Hein & Associates LLP
Hill Barth & King LLC
Horne LLP
J.H. Cohn LLP
Jackson Thornton & Co. PC
Joseph Decosimo and Company, PLLC
Kaufman, Rossin & Co., PA
Kemper CPA Group, LLP
Kennedy and Coe, LLC
KPMG LLP
KraftCPAs, PLLC
Larson, Allen, Weishair & Co., LLP
LeMaster & Daniels PLLC
Marks, Paneth & Shron LLP
Marcum & Kliegman LLP
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
Moss Adams LLP
Plante & Moran, LLP
Postlethwaite & Netterville
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP
Reznick Group, PC
Rosen Seymour Shapss Marin & Company LLP
Rothstein Kass & Company PC
Schenck Business Solutions
Schneider Downs & Co., Inc.
Singer Lewak LLP
Tofias PC
Watkins, Meegan, Drury & Co., LLC
Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino LLC
Wipfli, LLP
WithumSmith+Brown

*As of 1/25/2010

Sponsoring State CPA Societies*:

AICPA
Alabama Society of CPAs
Arizona Society of CPAs
Arkansas Society of CPAs
California Society of CPAs
Colorado Society of CPAs
Connecticut Society of CPAs
Florida Institute of CPAs
Georgia Society of CPAs
Hawaii Society of CPAs
Idaho Society of CPAs
Illinois CPA Society/CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois
Indiana CPA Society
Iowa Society of CPAs
Kentucky Society of CPAs
Maine Society of CPAs
Maryland Association of CPAs
Massachusetts Society of CPAs
Michigan Association of CPAs
Minnesota Society of CPAs
Mississippi Society of CPAs
Missouri Society of CPAs
Montana Society of CPAs
Nevada Society of CPAs
New Jersey Society of CPAs
New Mexico Society of CPAs
New York State Society of CPAs
North Carolina Association of CPAs
North Dakota Society of CPAs
Ohio Society of CPAs
Oklahoma Society of CPAs
Oregon Society of CPAs
Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs
Puerto Rico Society of CPAs
Rhode Island Society of CPAs
South Carolina Association of CPAs
South Dakota CPA Society
Texas Society of CPAs
Tennessee Society of CPAs
Utah Association of CPAs
Vermont Society of CPAs
Virginia Society of CPAs
West Virginia Society of CPAs
Washington Society of CPAs
Wisconsin Institute of CPAs
Wyoming Society of CPAs

*As of 1/25/2010

Additional Sponsoring Organizations*:

Norman and Bettina Roberts Foundation
Pittsburgh Foundation.


*As of 1/25/2010