Brian Yacker, CPA, JD
CalCPA Education Foundation
Brian Yacker, CPA, JD is a partner at Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation. He has 17 years of tax, general business consulting and accounting experience.
In the tax field, Yacker focuses extensively in working with tax-exempt organizations and has extensive experience in preparing and reviewing Forms 990, 990-T, 990-PF and state tax-exempt forms. He also has extensive experience in the preparation and filing of both federal and state tax exemption applications for public charities, private foundations, and other tax-exempt organizations. In numerous instances, Yacker has negotiated settlements or prevailed in disputes with the IRS on behalf of tax-exempt clients. Representative clients have included large hospitals and other healthcare organizations, universities and colleges, private foundations, trade organizations, other public charities, youth organizations, religious organizations, and amateur sports organizations.
Yacker is actively involved in the AAA-CPA, serving on both the Finance Committee and the IRS Liaison Committees. Additionally, he is the AAA-CPA's representative on the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee (Office of Professional Responsibility Subgroup).
Yacker is a member of the American Bar Association (and a participant on the Tax-Exempt Committee of the Tax Section) and the California Bar Association Tax Section. He serves on the Board of Directors of two public charities located in Southern California. Yacker is also the lead tax-exempt organization instructor for the CalCPA Education Foundation; he teaches several full-day seminars on various tax-exempt organizations topics (public charities tax primer / intermediate public charities issues / private foundations tax primer / intermediate private foundations issues).
