News of the Firm – Cottrill,
Arbutina Professional Services and its talented team
regularly make news with a variety of professional
and community activities.
2008
News
April
17-May 10, 2008
- Accountant Andy Kennedy, of the firm's Small Business
Services Group, takes a leave of absence to travel
to the Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region
of East Africa. While there, he is leading a Christian-focused,
intercessory prayer mission trip sponsored by For
His Glory International. During this time, his wife
Amy is maintaining an active website
and blog.
Jenkins
Majors
April
23, 2008
- Kristy L. Jenkins and Brodie
Majors have joined the firm as auditors, the 10th
and 11th new employees the firm has added since
the start of 2007. Jenkins will provide auditing
services for business, governmental entity and credit
union clients. She also will assist clients with
the implementation of computer systems. Previously,
she served for seven years as financial/payroll
supervisor with the County of Beaver, where she
prepared the county's Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report, coordinated the county's single audit and
trained employees on how to use the organization's
accounting system. Majors formerly was an accountant
with Lutz & Myers, an Ellwood City-based company
that specialized in commercial construction, roofing
and painting. While there, he managed the reconciliation
and recording of payroll accounts, coordinated accounts
payable and prepared reports tracking usage of materials
and sub-contractors.
Cottrill
Arbutina's "Bowl for Kids Sake"
teams
March
9, 2008
- Cottrill Arbutina is a corporate sponsor and fields
two teams for the annual "Bowl for Kids Sake"
event benefitting Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Beaver County. Together,
all 100 teams competing in the fun-filled event
raised more than $60,000, the largest amount in
the event's 24-year history.
March
2008 - In
an article headlined "Feeling Taxed?",
Pittsburgh Magazine publishes five ideas
by Tod
Arbutina on "practical, little-known
tips that will come in handy when you're filing
taxes for 2007 and beyond." Reprints
will be available soon.
2007
News
Herstine
Nov.
20, 2007
- Julie J. Herstine, MBA, joins the firm and will
practice in the New Brighton office as an auditor.
She is the ninth new employee that Cottrill, Arbutina
Professional Services has added this year. She previously
provided accounting and bookkeeping services for
a privately held trucking company, and earlier was
an auditor with USX Corporation, now U.S. Steel
Corporation, in Pittsburgh.
L-R:
Andy Kennedy, Win and Tom Farin, Tod Arbutina
Aug.
23, 2007
- Pegasus
Associates Lighting, an entirely online retailer
of unique lighting products, and a client of the
firm, is honored by the Pittsburgh Business
Times as the region's fourth fastest-growing
privately held retail company. Pegasus founders
Win and Tom Farin receive their plaque at the "Pittsburgh
100" event at the prestigious Duquesne
Club, flanked by Cottrill Arbutina's Andy Kennedy
and Tod Arbutina,
who nominated the company for the award.
Left to right: Gallagher, Gundersen, Parisi,
Wiest
June
22, 2007
- Four new auditors join the
firm and will practice in the Audit
Group, including R. Kevin Gallagher and Brenda
D. Gundersen in the New Brighton office, and Elizabeth
A. Parisi and Laura Wiest in the Peters Township
office. The Audit Group serves privately held businesses
and governmental, not-for-profit and financial institutions.
The firm's audit clients include a number of the
top credit unions in the Pittsburgh region as ranked
by asset size in the Pittsburgh Business Times,
as well as more than two-thirds of the public school
districts in Beaver County.
May
23, 2007
- Six of the firm's staff take part in a "Bowling
for Autism" fundraiser along with employees
of the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, National
Network of Digital Schools, Lincoln Park Performing
Arts Center and Lincoln Park Charter School in Midland,
PA. The Cottrill Arbutina team includes Danielle
Cummings, Karen Granito, Julie Hines, John Horvatich,
Andrea Sue Joseph, Deborah Mangelli and Mary Ann
Tarnovich.
The
2007 Bowl for Kids Sake teams
March
11, 2007
- Cottrill, Arbutina fields two bowling teams -
captained by Tod R.
Arbutina and Andy Kennedy
- that are among the top three corporate teams raising
funds for the annual "Bowl for Kids Sake" event
benefiting Big
Brothers Big Sisters of Beaver County. Both
captains are recognized for their efforts at the
Big Brothers Big Sisters Appreciation Brunch. In
total, 60 participating teams raise $50,000 in support
of children's mentoring programs. Tod Arbutina serves
as treasurer of the organization's board of directors.
2006
News
Nov.
8, 2006 -
Thomas J. Helsing, former vice president and general
manager of a division of Thermatex Corporation in
Ohio, has joined the firm in New Brighton as head
of its newly formed Small Business
Services Group. He oversees a staff that provides
QuickBooks® financial software consulting, payroll
services, general business consulting and outsources
bookkeeping services to small businesses in Western
Pennsylvania. Among the firm's clients in this area
are school districts, municipalities and boroughs,
non-profit organizations, professional services
firms, and small manufacturing and retail businesses
in many industries.
July
2006 - Tod
R. Arbutina and Faith A. Morrison make a presentation
to a county's domestic relations court officers
about different types of entities and related tax
returns for the purpose of setting support payments.
July
2006 - Dale
L. Cottrill and P.
Joel Martin make a presentation
to bank officers about how
to understand the new GASB 34 reporting standards
for governmental entities. The standards introduce
reporting for governments in a manner more similar
to that of a for-profit business. This has led to
questions about the cross-over between modified
accrual and full accrual accounting, and how to
understand the actual financial health of the entity.
July
1, 2006 - Following her
re-election, Faith A. Morrison begins her
second term as treasurer of the Rotary Club of Beaver.
April
4, 2006
- John
P. Ellsworth, a CPA who heads the Peters Township
office, has been elected treasurer of the board
of directors of Angels' Place, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based
non-profit organization providing services to single,
low-income student parents and their children. With
three centers in Allegheny County (North Side, Brookline
and Swissvale), Angels' Place offers free services
including child care, parenting classes, counseling
and help with job placement in order to provide
clients and their children with the opportunity
to become independent and self-sufficient members
of the community.
Feb.
16, 2006
- Cottrill Arbutina has expanded and
doubled its leased office space in Peters Twp. The
office is headed by John
P. Ellsworth, a CPA who holds a national designation
as a certified valuation analyst.
Jan.
17, 2006 -
Cottrill Arbutina announces its upcoming
“QuickBooks Training Made Simple" seminar
led by Andy Kennedy. It is scheduled for Feb. 1,
2006 at the Regional Learning Alliance at Cranberry
Woods in Cranberry Twp., PA.
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April
17-May 10, 2008
- Accountant Andy Kennedy, of the firm's Small Business
Services Group, takes a leave of absence to travel
to the Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region
of East Africa. While there, he is leading a Christian-focused,
intercessory prayer mission trip sponsored by For
His Glory International. During this time, his wife
Amy is maintaining an active 
June
3, 2007 -
The firm is featured on the front page of the Beaver
County Times' "Connections" newspaper published
by the 
Jan.
17, 2006 -
Cottrill Arbutina announces its upcoming
“QuickBooks Training Made Simple" seminar
led by Andy Kennedy. It is scheduled for Feb. 1,
2006 at the Regional Learning Alliance at Cranberry
Woods in Cranberry Twp., PA.