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.
PasPPast President and VP External, Student Union, Langara Campus, VCC (Fall 1974). Past president of her CGA chapter. 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 participated as a member of Intuit's Voice of Advisor Council for many years. She volunteers for Delta Emergency Social Services, and has taken 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.
The “TaxDetective” writes and speaks about using QuickBooks, Quicken, Profile and TurboTax software and about accounting and tax, often with a focus on personal tax. She delivers professional development workshops for CGA’s at Chapter, Computer User and Financial Controller Groups.
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 wrote a monthly column for The TaxLetter and for Intuit's Advisor Advantage for about five years and contributed columns on tax and investment for Canadian MoneySaver a few times a year.
Eileen collaborated with a Fortune 500 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.
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.
In 2009, the Institute of Professional Bookkeepers of Canada invited Eileen to be an 'honorary CGA' member of their organization. The goal was for Eileen to facilitate discussion among members via their online forum and to deliver a number of online webinars to add to member knowledge about bookkeeping and taxation. Members often write on the forum to say that the forum makes their membership fees worthwhile and that the videos are very useful. Videos include topics about Vehicles, Tax Research Online for Free, how to access My Account on the CRA website, and more.
In 2011, Eileen developed for IPBC, and presented to an online audience of bookkeepers and accountants, a series of ten, two hour presentations on how to Master QuickBooks Software. This video series is more than how to use the software. Eileen has worked with a top Fortune 500 company, and many business owners, accountants and bookkeepers to design accounting and cash management systems that incorporate internal controls to facilitate reporting and tax preparation; all for easy access to critical information required for business decisions. Eileen shares how to do that in the Master QuickBooks Software video series. If you own the videos, you can play them over and over, or fast forward to the part you wanted to review.
Eileen has a new unique product for high school students to learn about income tax using TurboTax Online. Her husband teaches math at Britannia High School. He asked if she would show his Math 11 Essentials students how to prepare a simple tax return. They had so much fun, Eileen developed an online Student WorkBook with five case studies and step by step videos of how to use TurboTax Online. She had a chance to share her workbook at the Business Education provincial professional development day in October. Teachers, parents or PAC’s can purchase a very affordable teacher site licence to access the Student WorkBook, and are allowed to provide the password to their students. Where was Eileen when we were in high school?
Visit “TaxDetective Store”for valuable tools and…watch for her book, soon to be published and sold on Chapters/Indigo website.Find out more at iUniverseand Berrett-Koehler Open Book Editions The book been approved by Berrett-Koehler Publishers as meeting their mission statement - “Creating a World that Works for All”.
