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Glenn Block, CPA, ABV, CVA
Partner
Block & Aldinger

Glenn Block is a CPA and partner in the accounting firm of Block & Aldinger and has been employed by the firm since 1982. Prior to that, Mr. Block worked with a CPA firm in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for two years.

In his current capacity as managing senior partner, Mr. Block provides services to the firm’s clients such as tax consulting, including federal and state business taxation, individual tax planning, financial planning, bankruptcy, business valuations, litigation support, forensic accounting, marital dissolution proceedings, and estate tax planning. Mr. Block is specialized in the area of forensic accounting and frequently is retained in matters involving lost profit damage calculations as well as other forensic matters. He is also specialized in the area of Pennsylvania family law as it pertains to child and spousal support calculations as well as equitable distribution. Mr. Block has prepared numerous business valuations, has testified in court as an expert witness on many occasions, and has also been appointed by the court in several cases to perform business valuations as an independent valuation expert in divorce proceedings and has also served as an arbitrator in civil litigation matters.

Mr. Block has been appointed to serve on the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants Divorce Conference Committee and is currently a member of that committee. He has been awarded an Accredited in Business Valuation credential (ABV) through the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). Mr. Block is also credentialed as a Certified Valuation Analyst, (CVA) and belongs to the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA). Mr. Block serves on the audit committee of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM). Mr. Block received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1979 from the American University in Washington, D.C., and belongs to the American Institute of CPAs as well as the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs.

Mr. Block frequently lectures before groups on different topic matters and was asked to be a speaker at the NACVA National Business Valuation Conference held in San Diego in June 2011. He has also lectured before the PICPA at their annual Divorce Conference 2011 and 2012 on topics such as “Techniques for Discovering Hidden Assets.” Mr. Block was chosen on behalf of the publication “Accounting Today,” a national magazine for CPAs, to be a speaker at their annual conference in Boca Raton, FL, in October 2013. He also was asked to be a speaker at the AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services Conference held in Las Vegas in November 2013. In January 2014, Mr. Block presented before the PICPA Forensic and Litigation Services Planning Committee at their annual planning meeting to host their annual conference.

Mr. Block is an expert in security and owns an alarm company in the Lehigh Valley area that sells and installs residential and commercial burglar alarm systems. Mr. Block is currently serving in his 4th year of a four-year term as elected Commissioner of South Whitehall Township, a community of approximately 20,000 citizens. Prior to that, Mr. Block served 7 years on the South Whitehall Township Zoning Board.