John Horvatich – Senior Accountant

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1475 Third Avenue
New Brighton, PA 15066
Tel: 724.843.0165, x127
Fax: 724.843.6577

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

John Horvatich is a senior accountant with the New Brighton office of Cottrill Arbutina Professional Services. His practice covers the gamut of audit and tax services for non-profit agencies, governmental bodies, credit unions and for-profit enterprises. As a generalist, he has a broad-ranging knowledge of how to resolve a wide variety of issues and utilize technology in creative ways.

Mr. Horvatich’s non-profits practice focuses on helping organizations keep accurate, well-ordered financial records and educating individual clients who do not have accounting backgrounds. Among the technical details he regularly handles are IRS regulations on donations and issues over restricted and unrestricted funds. He often helps clients upgrade their accounting systems in computer environments.

For one non-profit client, he reviewed a large balance of what was thought to be permanently restricted net assets. After discovering that the restrictions actually were only temporary, the client was able to free up substantial funds for the board of directors to apply to general business operations.

Mr. Horvatich has served a number of school districts and local municipalities. He is very familiar with the sweeping changes mandated by the federal government’s new accounting standards (GASB 34). These regulations impact the recordkeeping policies and procedures of local government bodies. He also understands the SAS 99 regulations regarding fraud, requiring increased documentation of internal control systems, and often consults with school superintendents and business managers on how to improve their recordkeeping.

His work for credit unions has involved, among other things, examining loan files to test, reconcile and clean up their formats, as well as track complicated wire transfer records.

Mr. Horvatich’s for-profit experience has included performing audits for clients whose financial records were in disarray. He helps organize records into an understandable, usable system, which plays a role in companies' prospects for a turnaround.

Mr. Horvatich received his bachelor of arts degree in accounting in 1983 from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA. He currently serves as secretary of the Lions Club of New Brighton.