EZKR Management Bios
Steven M. Kaplan, CPA/ABV, MBA - Principal
Mr. Kaplan is the principal in charge of Business Valuation, Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support services for Eisman, Zucker, Klein and Ruttenberg, LLP (EZKR). Prior to joining EZKR, Steve was a partner in the valuation and litigation support firm of Blaustein, Lynne & Co., LLP, where he provided business valuation, forensic accounting, collaborative practice, alternative dispute resolution, litigation support and tax services for matrimonial, estate and gift, economic damage, dissenting shareholder and merger and acquisition purposes.
Steve began his career with Laventhol & Horwath as a junior audit and then senior tax specialist from 1986 to 1989. He has also served as Senior Accountant and then Tax Manager for Theodore Samet & Co., P.C., Konigsberg Wolf & Co., P.C. and Marshall Granger & Co., P.C. From 1998 through 2000 Steve was a manager with the litigation support firm of Goodman, Kahn, Hoffman & Hochman Consulting Co., LLC and its accounting and tax practice affiliate, Kahn, Hoffman & Hochman, LLP, before admission and subsequent service as a partner from 2001 through 2003.
He has written tax articles for the CPA Journal, appeared on the PBS Dollar for Dollar TV program, served as a tax editor and consultant for Thompson Publishing Co. and Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing, and lectured on a variety of tax and matrimonial dissolution topics for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Foundation for Accounting Education.
Steve is past President and Executive Board member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountant's Rockland chapter, a member of the New York State Society of CPA's statewide Professional Ethics Committee, and is also past Co-Chair of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountant's Westchester Chapter Litigation Support/Cooperation with the Bar Committee. He was also a member of Representative Benjamin Gilman's Economic Advisory Council, and served as an advisory board member for the North Rockland High School Academy of Finance. Steve has been elected to and serves on the Blind Brook - Rye Union Free School District Board of Education for a 3 year term from July, 2006 through June, 2009. He also serves as a member of the District's Audit Committee. Steve has also served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board and been a contributing author for Aspen Publishing's CPA Litigation Service Counselor and for National Litigation Consultants Review. Steve serves on the Board of Directors of the multi-disciplinary New York Collaborative Law Group, representing financial specialists.
He also serves as Treasurer.
Certifications
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA)
Accredited Business Valuator (ABV)
Memberships
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Business Valuation/Forensic and Litigation Services Section
• Tax Section
• Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Section
New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
Education
Mr. Kaplan is a 1986 graduate of the State University of New York at Albany, and received his Master of Business Administration - Taxation degree in 1992 from The Bernard M. Baruch College.
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