IAR24: Financial Reporting for Public Institutions (GASB) Part 1

Shea Bryant has been the manager of financial reporting at Michigan State University for six years after over seven years at Plante Moran where he focused on higher education institutions. Bryant’s department is in charge of preparing the year-end financial statements and implementing new GASB standards as they are issued. Bryant is a member of the NACUBO accounting principles council.

Tom Ewing has over 30 years of higher education accounting and reporting experience at The Ohio State University. He is a CPA and earned his MBA at The Ohio State University in 2012. Ewing is a former member and chair of NACUBO's accounting principles council and received the Daniel D. Robinson award in 2020. He also served on the GASB disclosure framework task force. Ewing has been married for 37 years to his wife, Colleen. They have two grown daughters and a five-year-old granddaughter.

Chris Leach is accounting policy analyst at NACUBO. Prior to that, he served for almost 20 years in associate vice president and controller positions at both Texas A&M University-San Antonio and Washburn University. Leach also has extensive experience in the private sector. He was assistant vice president for strategic planning and analysis at Security Benefit Group, a financial services company based in Topeka, KS. He began his professional career in the audit practice of Deloitte and Touche in Baton Rouge, LA. Chris left Deloitte in 1994 as an audit senior manager after time in the firm's national office and its Columbus, OH, office. Chris received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in professional accountancy from Mississippi State University. He has held certified public accountant (CPA) licenses in Mississippi (active), Louisiana (inactive), and Ohio (inactive). He and his wife, DeAnn, live in Columbus, MS, with their three dogs, two cats, and the occasional field mouse.