MBA in a Day

John P. Laschenski, CPA, is an accountant, management consultant, and business educator based in Rochester, NY. He regularly prepares and delivers seminars on accounting, auditing, and related topics to CPAs throughout North America. In addition, he consults with CPA firms and with public and private companies on accounting and auditing issues, and he also provides accounting and auditing expert witness consulting and testimony in cases involving CPA firms. For the American Management Association, he creates and leads financial and accounting seminars throughout the United States.

Before starting his own CPA and consulting firm in 1981, Mr. Laschenski designed and managed the development of computer systems for the IBM Corporation and was a financial executive for the Xerox Corporation. He has been on the faculties of the Business School at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and of Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and has served for 10 years as a member of the New York State Board for Public Accountancy, the licensing and disciplinary board for CPAs in the state of New York.

Mr. Laschenski holds an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, and a BS from Holy Cross College.