Debra Lynn Gallant, CPA
Debra Gallant offers more than twenty years of experience in public and commercial accounting. Her vast experience and skills serve as a basis to provide services to clients with various auditing and accounting needs including CFO/Controller services, assessment of internal controls, education on audit and accounting procedures and set-up and maintenance of general ledger accounting systems.
Prior to establishing herself as a sole practitioner in South Florida, Debra worked for ten years as a senior accountant at a mid-size CPA firm in Livingston, New Jersey where she performed and supervised financial and internal control audits and agreed upon procedures for not-for-profit and governmental clients. Her responsibilities included planning and performing audits in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as well as performance of Single Audits in compliance with the requirements of OMB Circular A-133, "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations." She also was instrumental in the set-up and client training of QuickBooks general ledger systems and advising clients on proper application of accounting standards and technical issues.
Debra spent many years as a financial analyst for a large New Jersey law firm where she prepared financial statements, general ledger account analysis and reconciliations, monthly and year-end closings, established and maintained attorney trust accounts, and organized and implemented the physical inventory of firm assets. She also was controller for a restaurant delivery service where she set up and maintained the general ledger, prepared financial statements and account reconciliation and analysis and prepared bi-weekly payroll and related payroll tax returns.
Debra is a member of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA). She is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and has completed basic training in divorce mediation at the Center for Mediation and Training, New York, New York. In her community, she served on the scholarship committee for the New Jersey State Firemen's Mutual Benefit Association and as the treasurer of the Harrison School Parent Teacher Association, Livingston, New Jersey.
Debra graduated in 1985 from Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in accounting. Debra resided in Livingston, New Jersey for twenty years and has recently relocated to Boca Raton, Florida.