Alumni in the News
Tanya Scott – BS, Accounting, 1989
San Diego, CA, PRNewswire - October 31, 2006 Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP Promotes San Diego Manager to Partner. Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP, a leading Certified Public Accountant and Consulting firm serving California businesses and residents for over eighty years, recently named Tanya Lee Scott as Partner. Tanya graduated Cum Laude from Utah State University, and has been working in the field of public accounting for the last 17 years. She joined Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP in January 2001 when the firm merged with Logan Throop & Co., LLP, where Tanya was the Director of Taxation Services.
Richard Preciado, Managing Partner for Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP said, "Tanya has distinguished herself as a leader in the firm’s Family Business Committee and heads up this practice area in the San Diego office." Tanya is a past president of the San Diego Chapter of the Western Pension & Benefits Conference and a former director of the San Diego Chapter of CalCPA. She currently serves as the Treasurer of the San Diego Business Association, and is also a member of the American Institute of CPAs.
"Fear, confusion, conflict and lack of direction can bring a family business into crisis. My goal as partner is to help family businesses manage the boundaries between their business and financial concerns and family relationships," comments Scott. "I will continue to assist business owners and their families in analyzing management, succession planning needs, implementing workable ownership and leadership transfer, determining appropriate key executive compensation and business structure, and establishing effective shareholder communication."
Tanya speaks on a regular basis to local organizations on topics including Tax Planning Strategies for Family and Closely-Held Businesses, Establishing a Family Council, Writing a Family Creed, How to Run Family Meetings, Will a Cost Segregation Study Work for You?, and Audits of Employee Benefit Plans. "My family owned business and tax services are based on communication with the family members and key employees. Successful family owned businesses are about successful relationships. I have big-firm capabilities, with a personal, small-town attitude," said Scott.