Pub. 3 2021 Issue 4

29 nebraska society of cpas W W W . N E S C P A . O R G Jake Klabenes has been promoted to audit director in Lutz’s Hastings office. He has more than 11 years of tax and audit experience, specializing in audits of governmental agencies, specifically housing authorities, with additional experience in not-for-profit entities and low- income housing tax credit projects. In addition, Klabenes has been a contributor to Lutz’s central Nebraska assurance department through managing scheduling and implementing processes. Douglas Morris has been promoted to partner/ shareholder by McFarlin & Brokke, PC, an Omaha CPA firm that has been providing a full range of accounting, tax, and consulting services to clients in the Midwest for more than 60 years. Morris joined the firm in 2014 as a staff accountant and, in 2019, was promoted to manager. In his new role as partner, Morris will have expanded leadership responsibilities and continue to pursue all areas of client satisfaction and staff mentoring. An Omaha native, Morris is a graduate of Ralston High School and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in accounting in 2015, and his Master of Professional Accountancy and CPA certification in 2016. Jeffrey Pirruccello, an attorney with McGrath Nor th in Omaha, has received the highest Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranking (known as Band 1) within the practice area of tax. Pirruccello has been providing tax, estate planning, and business law counsel for more than four decades. Chambers USA focuses on lawyers for business and bases its rankings on market research and interviews with clients and attorneys across the nation. This enables Chambers to assess technical legal abi lity, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by clients. Firms in the News INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA) recently announced its annual financial performance analysis and ranking of the nation’s largest public accounting f irms. Accounting f irms headquartered in Nebraska that made IPA’s list of Top 400 Firms in the nation for 2021 included Lutz (No. 83), Seim Johnson LLP (No. 198), Bland & Associates, PC (No. 280), Frankel Zacharia LLC (No. 295), and HBE LLP (No. 308). IPA has released this list annually for 31 years. Read the complete list of Top 400 Firms at https://insidepublicaccounting.com/top-firms/ipa-400. t