Full Name
Danny Martinez
Job Title
Partner, Government & Public Sector Accounting Advisory Leader
Company
Cherry Bekaert
Speaker Bio
As a Partner at Cherry Bekaert, Danny provides advisory and training services to a wide range of governmental entities, including municipalities and their component units, counties, school districts, public universities, special districts, tribal governments, airports, ports and hospitals. He has provided technical accounting assistance to some of the largest cities and counties in the country.
As the leader of the Government and Public Sector Accounting Advisory group, he is responsible for the quality and growth of the firm’s GASB-as-a-Service, ACFR writing, and Surge Team accounting advisory services. Under his leadership Cherry Bekaert has experienced significant growth in these services and achieves high client satisfaction and retention scores.
He presents on various governmental industry and accounting topics at national and regional conferences, including the future of the governmental accounting workforce, GASB standard updates, and internal control and grants management best practices.
Danny is the past Zone 3 (GASB) Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Technical Issues Committee, a group that provides a voice for its constituents in the standard setting process. In addition, Danny is a founding member of the firm’s Government Standards Outlook Committee, a group of technical leaders in the firm that keep abreast of all upcoming GASB, OMB, and AICPA changes and provides comment letters to those standard setting bodies.
As the leader of the Government and Public Sector Accounting Advisory group, he is responsible for the quality and growth of the firm’s GASB-as-a-Service, ACFR writing, and Surge Team accounting advisory services. Under his leadership Cherry Bekaert has experienced significant growth in these services and achieves high client satisfaction and retention scores.
He presents on various governmental industry and accounting topics at national and regional conferences, including the future of the governmental accounting workforce, GASB standard updates, and internal control and grants management best practices.
Danny is the past Zone 3 (GASB) Chair of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Technical Issues Committee, a group that provides a voice for its constituents in the standard setting process. In addition, Danny is a founding member of the firm’s Government Standards Outlook Committee, a group of technical leaders in the firm that keep abreast of all upcoming GASB, OMB, and AICPA changes and provides comment letters to those standard setting bodies.
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