Eric S. Berman

Eric S. Berman recently joined our firm and is the managing partner of our newest office in Pasadena, California.  He has over 20 years of experience and focuses on federal, state, and local governmental auditing and consulting.  He is also our firm’s quality control partner.

Prior to joining Brown Armstrong, Eric spent 11 years as the Deputy Comptroller of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  One of the numerous responsibilities he had for the Commonwealth was implementation of all Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) standards.

Through his position with the Commonwealth, he became a nationally recognized authority and author on GASB standards and is a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC) as the representative of the Association of Governmental Accountants (AGA) and as an advisor to the GASB on new accounting standards.  Eric is also the chairman of the National Financial Management Standards board, which comments on all new federal and GASB proposed accounting standards and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) proposed auditing standards. He is the author of the 2011 Governmental GAAP Guide and 2011 Governmental GAAP Practice Manual series and the twice a month Governmental GAAP Update Service newsletter.

Eric has served on GASB’s Derivatives project and GASB’s Environmental remediation project.  He also chaired the National Association of State Comptrollers (NASC’s) task force on other post employment benefits (OPEB) and currently serves on its derivatives implementation group.  As chairman of the OPEB committee, he won a President’s Award from NASC. Eric has also won a President’s award from the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers for his service to that organization. As part of the member of Massachusetts’ GASB Statement 34 Implementation Team, he was awarded the Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Public Service.   He is also a President’s award winner from AGA and has received high ratings for his presentations in front of conferences all across the country and webcasts.

Eric serves on the board of a not-for-profit foundation raising funds for performing arts programs and scholarships at his high school in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (which he co-founded).

Contact Eric:
Ph: 661-324-4971
Fx: 661-324-4997
Email: eberman@bacpas.com