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Eleanor A. Wagner, CPA – Tax Manager

 
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Eleanor A. Wagner, CPA – Tax Manager

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525 Third Street

Beaver, PA 15009

Tel: (724) 683-3400

Fax: (724) 683-3401


Email: ewagner@cottrillarbutina.com
Web: www.cottrillarbutina.com

Eleanor A. Wagner is a certified public accountant and tax manager with the Beaver office of Cottrill, Arbutina & Associates.

In this role, Ms. Wagner performs tax planning and preparation as well as auditing services for businesses, not-for-profit organizations and credit unions.

Among her accomplishments have been obtaining tax exempt status for a startup entity providing residential housing to moderate income individuals. She has advised a high net worth client who owned a business and wanted to transfer wealth to a disabled adult child while allowing other adult children to continue running the enterprise, thus avoiding heavy estate taxes.

For a client who ran 25 partnerships in the real estate, construction and land development fields, she helped consolidate the sprawling enterprise to streamline financial reporting and as a means to help the client understand its monthly cash flow and overall profit/loss performance. She has trained client bookkeeping staff on how to use QuickBooks for multi-office locations.

Ms. Wagner joined the firm in 2008. Earlier in her career, she was a principal with the CPA firm of S.R. Snodgrass, A.C. She also has worked in the accounting field with firms in Michigan and Ohio since 1983.

Ms. Wagner holds a master's of taxation degree from Robert Morris University (2006) and received her bachelor of science in business administration degree in 1983, cum laude , from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Active in the profession and community, Ms. Wagner holds a CPA certification in Pennsylvania. She is a past treasurer of the Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women, past president of the Professional Women's Network and past treasurer of Zonta International.