Eileen Reppenhagen, CGA, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Esteemed Member of Intuit's Accounting Professionals Writer/Trainer Network and Honorary Member of the Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada.

A few years ago, a client nicknamed her the "TaxDetective" and the title stuck.  A CGA who has worked both in industry and had her own public practice since 1986, she is passionate and vocal about taxpayers’ right to education about tax. She has achieved Toastmasters Advanced Communicator Gold and Competent Leader.

Past president of her CGA chapter and past president of Delta Toastmasters Club 1924.  Recipient of J.M. MacBeth Award of Merit, CGA BC, (1993). Contributor CGA Canada Public Practice Manual on forecasting and projections, “Future Oriented Financial Information” (1999).  Participant in CGA Canada’s Video Taking Care of Business (2000). Winner of QuickBooks 2010 Beta Tester of the Year award by Intuit Canada (2009)

Eileen is a proud member of the Certified General Accountants Association of BC and serves as an 'Ambassador'.  Eileen participates as a member of Intuit's Voice of Advisor Council.  She volunteers for Delta Emergency Social Services, currently enrolling in the BC Justice Institute courses on various facets of Emergency Management.  She has served her CGA Chapter for many years in a variety of positions including President, School Visits, Pro D committee and most recently Newsletter/ Publicity during the transition to blogging the Chapter Newsletter.

Not only is Eileen a successful accountant, she is also an accomplished writer and speaker.  Her audiences include families, investors, business owners, bookkeepers, accountants and health care professionals.  Known to be on the leading edge, fun, and entertaining, Eileen delivers stimulating, practical presentations that inject clarity, understanding, and humour into a number of confusing topics. 

Eileen created TaxLinks for her CGA Chapter members in December 2007 for a half day tax research seminar presented to 120 participants.  That lead to the launch of the Canadian Virtual Tax Research Club in 2008, modelled on a tax and public practice support group she hosted for the Richmond CGA BC chapter in the early 1990's. 

In December 2008, a similar half day workshop on NPO compliance link her NPO webpage with the BC Centre for Non Profit Development located at the University of the Fraser Valley.   

Eileen has been speaking about utilizing personal tax credits in a talk called Pay Less Tax since 2003.  Other topics including Add Fun and Variety to Meetings, Procedure Manuals Made Easy and on the subject of financial literacy, Non Profit Compliance, ABC's of ACB's, Executing your Fiduciary Duty and for taxpayers surfing on the internet, Tax Online.

Eileen writes a monthly column for The TaxLetter and for Intuit's Advisor Advantage.  She contributes a column on tax and investment for Canadian MoneySaver a few times a year. Recently Eileen collaborated with a company to write a procedure manual for integration with inventory management software and conversion by several hundred retailers to QuickBooks. Then she trained the trainers to implement the integration and conversion.

Several years ago, Eileen contributed towards the development of Intuit's training curriculum. In 2009, she was a regional QuickBooks trainer for Intuit Canada delivering Basic, Advanced, Payroll, Fast Track and Expert modules for business owners, bookkeepers and accountants seeking to maximize their use of QuickBooks software.  

Watch for published articles and future speaking events on her website at www.taxdetective.ca.