Nashville Chapter November Meeting
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Description
Nashville Chapter Meeting - Nov. 19
Join the Nashville Chapter in Liberty Hall at The Factory at Franklin. At lunch, we will honor and recognize new Life members of the Nashville Chapter.
Lunch and Networking
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Lunch CPE: Professional Issues Update with TSCPA Chair
Speaker: Kelly Crow, CPA
Time: 12 - 1 p.m.
CPE Credit: 1 Accounting
Fee: Free for members; $25 for non-members
Afternoon CPE: Navigating Professional Pressures and Balancing Perspective
Speaker: CJ Blankenship, CPA, CGMA
Time: 1- 3 p.m.
CPE Credit: 2 Professional Development
Fee: $25 for members; $50 for non-members
Credits
Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
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3.00 | Accounting |
Instructors
Kelly S. Crow
Kelly Crow, CPA, began her career as an intern with RBG and became one of the firm’s first full-time tax staff hires after graduating from Christian Brothers University (CBU). Over her 15 years at RBG, she advanced through roles such as tax senior, manager, senior manager, and now partner. She focuses on compliance, consulting, and planning for various clients, including private clients, real estate partnerships, auto dealerships, nonprofits, private foundations, and employee benefit plans. She also has extensive experience with IRS and state representation.
Kelly is actively involved in TSCPA, serving as the 2024-25 TSCPA Chair. She has also served as President of the Memphis Chapter of TSCPA. At the national level, she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and serves on the AICPA Council. In 2019, she was selected for the AICPA Leadership Academy. Locally, Kelly has volunteered with the CBU Alumni Association Board, the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, and the Greater Memphis Chamber Young Professionals Council.
Back to InstructorsClaude E. Blankenship, CPA, CGMA
CJ Blankenship is the Managing Partner at the firm and consults with clients and the BCPAG team on the most challenging tax, accounting, management and financial matters. He is a National Merit Scholar and received his Bachelor of Business Administration with honors in Accounting from Belmont University.
He has over twenty years of management experience in a variety of industries and service sectors and had worked at Crowe Chizek (currently Crowe Horwath, LLP) and RSM McGladrey, Inc. prior to joining the firm in 2007. CJ was admitted as a partner in the firm in February of 2009 and has served as the managing partner since.
Over his career CJ has performed a variety of consulting services for hundreds of clients, including serving in an outsourced CFO capacity for an international manufacturing and distribution company with operations and customers around the globe.
CJ spends his workdays on mergers and acquisitions, not-for-profit consulting and compliance matters, planning (particularly with tax favored investment strategy), management consulting, tax compliance, accounting systems and matters for businesses, not-for-profits and individuals, and manages the day to day processes and strategic direction of the firm.
CJ has a heart for Christian ministries and is the Founder and President of Christian Recovery Houses, Inc., and consults with several not for profit boards. He has also served the TSCPA Nashville Board and Federal Tax Committee, and has served as the Treasurer at the Tennessee Christian Chamber of Commerce. He used to spend a lot of hours with the guitar and Christian song-writing, playing golf, camping, hunting, fishing, writing and exercising. Now, he is blessed to have married up to his lovely wife Amanda, and spends most of his free time as a father of two wonderful sons and a sweet little girl to round out the brood.
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