Brian Yacker has almost 18 years of tax, general business consulting and accounting experience. In the tax field, Brian focuses extensively in working with exempt organizations. In this regard, Brian possesses a vast amount of experience in preparing and reviewing Forms 990, 990-T, 990-PF and state tax-exempt forms. Brian also has extensive experience in the preparation and filing of both federal and state tax exemption applications for public charities, private foundations, and other tax-exempt organizations. Representative clients have included large hospitals and other healthcare organizations, universities and colleges, private foundations (family foundations/private operating foundations/corporate foundations), trade organizations, other public charities, youth organizations, religious organizations, and amateur sports organizations. Brian is actively involved in the AAA-CPA, serving on their Board of Directors, their Finance Committee and the IRS Liaison Committee. Additionally, Brian is the AAA-CPA's representative on the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee (Office of Professional Responsibility Subgroup). Brian was recently appointed the Chair of this OPR Subgroup. Brian is a member of the American Bar Association (and a participant on the Tax-Exempt Committee of the Tax Section) and the California Bar Association's Tax Section. Brian currently serves on the Board of Directors of two public charities located in Southern California. Brian is also the lead exempt organizations instructor for the CA CPA Education Foundation; he teaches several full-day seminars on various exempt organizations topics (public charities tax primer / intermediate public charities issues / private foundations tax primer / advanced private foundations tax and legal issues). Brian earned his Bachelors degree in Finance/Marketing from the University of Virginia and his Juris Doctor from the Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington).