Fort Collins Accountants

Shinn Consulting Employees And Financial Planners

Ralph Shinn - CPA, CFP

Ralph is currently the President of Shinn Consulting CPA's P.C. and President of Shinn Financial Group, a financial advisory services firm specializing in wealth management for small to medium-sized business clients and affluent individual investors.

Ralph has been in the public accounting and financial planning practice for over twenty-three years and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, (CPA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Ralph has also served as an on-call CFO for several of his business clients and has extensive experience in start-up companies including entity selection, business development, taxation strategies, and interfacing with other business partners including bankers, lawyers, and developers.

His other activities include evaluation of different financial instruments and negotiation in several business venture financing and real estate projects of which he has been an investor/partner. Ralphs' areas of expertise are Advanced Tax and Financial Planning for closely-held businesses and sophisticated individual clients, Retirement and Estate Planning Litigation Support, and Business consulting. He has extensive experience in Real Estate taxation, structuring of entities to protect personal assets of individuals and businesses as well as sophisticated structuring of transactions to minimize taxes and add value to real-estate portfolios.

His affiliations include the Colorado Society of CPA's, American Institute of CPA's and the Financial Planning Association and are past and president of several not-for-profit organizations in Northern Colorado.

Gary Sauder - CPA

Gary joined Shinn Consulting CPA's at the start of 2008. Gary has had extensive accounting and tax experience, including; twenty-seven years as Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer and Accounting Manager of two real estate development and management firms.

Gary has seven years of accounting and auditing experience with a CPA firm and mini-conglomerate. He has also been involved in owning and operating three small businesses. Gary has been working with Quickbooks since 2000. He has also been a member of the Fort Collins community for thirty years.

Kellie Barrier - Executive Assistant

Kellie has worked for Shinn Consulting CPA's since November 2006. She is currently a junior at Colorado State University, majoring in Business with a Concentration in Accounting; with an expected graduation date of May 2010.

Her current duties include payroll, bookkeeping and billing for Shinn Consulting CPA's. Kellie enjoys living in Colorado and snowboarding in the winter.