Dawn W. Brolin, CPA, CFE

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Dawn is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and CEO of Powerful Accounting, LLC. Powerful Accounting is a nationally recognized accounting, tax, forensic and fraud, IRS and State Agency audit professionals as well as a QuickBooks consulting firm. Recently, Powerful Accounting has partnered with Anderson, Brolin & Coba CPAs, LLC – a powerhouse tax preparation, consulting and wealth management firm, where Dawn is a partner. Dawn also founded, Your Turn, LLC, which specializes in application consulting and implementation for small businesses.
Dawn’s list of professional accomplishments is extensive and includes speaking and consulting for prestigious companies such as Intuit, TSheets by Intuit, Finagraph, SmartVault, Skyline Cloud Services, Mike Michalowicz, Tory Johnson, MSNBC, SEEMA, AbacusNext, The Woodard Group, and many more. Named “Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting” 2012-2017 by CPA Practice Advisor, a “Top 10 Managing Partner Elite – Great Accounting Firm Leader” in 2017 by Accounting Today, and selected as a “Top 40 Under 40” by CPA Technology Magazine in 2009. Dawn continues to pursue excellence with the support of her amazing Team at Powerful Accounting.
Dawn has been featured on MSNBC “Your Business” and has spoken at Intuit’s QuickBooks Connect, Scaling New Heights, Sleeter Conference, TD Bank North locations, Tory Johnson’s Small Business Spark and Hustle Tour, Live Your Legacy Summit, and many more. Her commitment to continuing education motivates her to teach regularly to bring new techniques and processes to the accounting community.
Professionals seek out Dawn W. Brolin, CPA, CFE and her educational keynotes, webinars and articles. They enjoy her energetic and humorous delivery as well as the action ability and depth of her content.
Video of Dawn W. Brolin, CPA, CFE is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0olPvGhfF9M
CPA, CFE Powerful Accounting LLC
Feb 11th 2021
IRS Written Security Plan Requirements
PTIN holders still have a little time for your firm to meet the IRS Written Security Plan requirements this tax season. Personally, I didn’...
Practice Excellence
Jul 12th 2019
Why Small Businesses are Huge Targets for ID Theft
The Internal Revenue Service reported in 2017 that business identity theft increased 250 percent. Simply put, your client’s identity gets...
Clients
Apr 17th 2019
How Clients Can Have a Fraud-Proof Business
The conclusive episode in my CRIME-based “Fraudcast” series examined information systems, monitoring and environment. I reunited with...
Clients
Apr 8th 2019
Assessing Your Clients’ Chances of Being Defrauded
During this episode of my latest “Fraudcast” series, I spoke alongside my good friend Stephen King—who I assume you’re well acquainted with...
Clients
Mar 19th 2019
How to Prevent Billing Schemes
In what seems like no time, we’ve reached episode six of my six-part “Fraudcast” series featuring the wonderful Stephen King. For those of...
Clients
Mar 8th 2019
How to Prevent Employee Expense Fraud
On the fifth episode of my “Fraudcast” series, Stephen King and I unpacked employee expense fraud. For those who are unfamiliar, Steve is a...
Clients
Feb 25th 2019
How to Stop Cyber Fraud and Protect Your Data
In her latest Fraudcast, Dawn Brolin, CPA, CFE and CPA Stephen King got into a deep discussion about cyber fraud. I reminded listeners...
Clients
Feb 13th 2019
How to Correct 1099 Mistakes
I recently chatted with HR Solutions Manager Jaime Lizotte , who works for ComplyRight, where the mission is to free employers from the...
Clients
Feb 4th 2019
How Check Fraudsters Tamper With Success
In the third part of Dawn Brolin’s Fraudcast with CPA Stephen King of client accounting services firm GrowthForce, they talked about check...
Clients
Jan 29th 2019
Building a Team to Avoid Payroll Fraud
For the most part, we think we know what payroll data fraud is, but it can in different forms: submitting fake hours, setting up a ghost...
Clients