EZKR Management Bios
Steven M. Kaplan, CPA/ABV, MBA - Partner
Mr. Kaplan is the partner in charge of Business Valuation, Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support services for EZKR, providing business valuation, forensic accounting, collaborative practice (matrimonial and civil), 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. Thereafter, until joining EZKR in 2006, Steve was a partner in the valuation and litigation support firm of Blaustein, Lynne & Co., LLP.
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, valuation, fraud and matrimonial dissolution topics for organizations including the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants/Foundation for Accounting Education, the NYS Bar Association, the Family Mediation and Divorce Council (FMDC) and the NY Association of Collaborative Professionals (NYACP).
Steve is a past President of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountant's Rockland chapter, a former member of the NYS Society of CPA's statewide Professional Ethics Committee, and is also past Co-Chair of the NYS Society of Certified Public Accountant's Westchester Chapter Litigation Support 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 currently serves as President on the Blind Brook - Rye School District Board of Education, where he is in the midst of a second 3 year term. He also represents financial professionals on the Board of Directors of the multi-disciplinary New York Association of Collaborative Professionals. Previously, Steve has 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.
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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