Jennifer F. Louis, CPA
Jennifer F. Louis, CPA, has over 25 years of experience
in designing and presenting high-quality training programs in a wide variety of technical accounting, auditing, and "soft skills" topics needed
for professional and organizational success. She is the principle author of
audit and attest related courses for Surgent and frequent speaker
at Surgent live programs and seminars. She has received the Surgent
Outstanding Discussion Leader Award because of her consistently high evaluations
for knowledge and presentation skills. Ms. Louis is also
the president of Emergent Solutions Group, LLC, a company she founded
in 2003, dedicated to developing and delivering a wide variety of accounting and
auditing training services, including audit staff training, audit productivity improvement,
and value-added auditing. Prior to that, she was executive vice president/director
of training services at AuditWatch, Inc.
Before joining AuditWatch, Ms. Louis was the financial/operational audit
manager at AARP. While at AARP, she served as one of their specially trained
facilitators available as a resource throughout the organization for designing
and leading strategic meetings and training sessions. Ms. Louis was also an
audit manager for Deloitte and Touche, LLP. During her years in that firm’s
Washington, D.C. office, she served as an instructor for the firm’s national
“Train the Trainers” program.
Ms. Louis graduated summa cum laude from Marymount University with a BBA in
accounting.