Clark Schaefer Hackett Shareholder Jim Haubrock was recently named Chair of the AICPA’s Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center (EBPAQC), which is a firm-based voluntary membership center for firms that audit employee benefit plans, credited with establishing best practices for audit performance through education. The Center’s Executive Committee designs general policies of the Center and oversees its activities.
Haubrock is recognized as a national expert in employee benefit plan audit services, and has been a member of the AICPA Executive Counsel since 2006. From there he moved to the Audit Quality Center Executive Committee in 2012 and is now serving a three-year term as Chair, which started October 1, 2016. With his leadership of Clark Schaefer Hackett’s Employee Benefit Plan Audit Services Group, the firm is recognized as one of the top 30 firms nationally to audit employee benefit plans. Haubrock has also been a frequent speaker for the OSCPA and AICPA, discussing a variety of topics such as limited scope audit requirements, the revised 403(b) plan audit requirements, 11-K audit issues, and employee benefit plan audit efficiencies.