D. Edward Martin CPA, CFE, MBA

D. Edward Martin, MBA, CPA, CFE, is an accountant and consultant whose 40-plus years of public accounting experience encompasses a broad cross-section of industries and activities. He is a partner in EisnerAmper’s New York Not-for-Profit Services Group, and his background includes private foundations, schools, performing-arts institutions, religious entities, social-service organizations, museums, trade associations, and a variety of voluntary health and welfare organizations. Ed’s career has included his being a manager and partner at the predecessor firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and KPMG LLP, respectively, and he has participated in or overseen hundreds of commercial and not-for-profit engagements. A graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso and the College of William and Mary (MBA), Ed has been involved with professional education for more than four decades. He is currently an adjunct professor of accounting at Baruch College of the City University of New York, and has previously held that position at New York University, Pace University and the University of Maryland. Ed also participates in his firm's continuing professional education (CPE) function (developing course materials and teaching selected programs), and he has been engaged by attorneys from time to time to provide testimony as an expert on accounting, auditing and financial-reporting matters. Ed frequently addresses groups on business subjects and has authored or co-authored a variety of business publications; his book for lawyers, the Attorney's Handbook of Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting, published by LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, contains a comprehensive chapter on not-for-profit organizations. Ed has served on the governing board and various committees of the New York State Society of CPAs and is a former member as well of various committees of the American Institute of CPAs, including its task force on financial fraud, its CPE Executive Committee, and its Auditing Standards Board, the entity that produces auditing standards for not-for-profit organizations. Ed was recently appointed to the New York State Board for Public Accountancy, a state advisory body for the regulation of the accounting profession. He also serves as the treasurer of the City and Country School in New York and was previously a member of the audit committee of the UJA-Federation of New York and of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Home Lifecare System. Ed continues to chair Jewish Home Lifecare’s audit and compliance committee and is president of the Board of Governors of the Accountants Club of America.