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Josephine Sarnelli, CPA, has had her own consulting business since 1991. She specializes in forensic accounting and white collar crime investigations (including expert testimony), internal control reviews, part-time and temporary CFO/controllership positions for manufacturing, retail and service companies, accounting software installation, and fund accounting applications for government and not-for-profit organizations. For a complete list of her varied types of assignments, read the summary under Consultin
Experience Jo started her career with four years in the Springfield office of Coopers & Lybrand, a large internationally known CPA firm, formerly part of the “Big Eight.” She left there to head up the Internal Auditing function of Friendly Ice Cream Corporation for eight years. This was a highly visible position reporting to Hershey Foods Corporation, the parent company. A vertically integrated business, Friendly Ice Cream had 30,000 employees, a manufacturing facility, and 850 company owned resta
Education A 1976 graduate of American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, Jo was recipient of a full four-year mathematics scholarship. During those four years she obtained a BS in Accounting with a minor in Finance, a BA in Economics and her MBA. She graduated first in her class in both her graduate and undergraduate studies.