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333 County Line Road W
Westerville, OH 43082
Phone: 6148461899

Accountant/Consultant

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333 County Line Rd. West
Westerville, OH 43082
Phone: (614) 846-1899

Meghan Needham, CPA, is a partner with Julian & Grube, Inc., specializing in consulting for Ohio local governments.  Meghan prepares and supervises GAAP conversions, CAFRs and PAFRs, performs Agreed Upon Procedures as well as provides internal audit consulting services and training.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from Ohio Northern University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).  Meghan has over 14 years of governmental accounting experience and is a member of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants and Association of Government Accountants.

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122 Fourth Street NW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
Phone: (330) 339-6651

Supervisor

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101 Central Plaza South
Canton, OH 44702
Phone: (330) 438-7608

Tracie McCreary serves as a Chief Project Manager for the Local Government Services Section of the Auditor of State’s Office.  She has twenty years of experience with local governments. Tracie provides technical support related to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and AICPA reporting standards.  

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694 East Washington Street
Medina, OH 44258
Phone: (330) 722-8222

My self-motivated, reliable & inquisitive nature drives me to seek solutions to create efficiencies & do whatever it takes to get job done.

Day-to-day activities at Rea:
Anita manages our compilation department including GAAP conversions for our government clients.

Topics or areas of expertise that she can talk about (even in her sleep):
Government auditing
Government accounting and financial reporting
Internal controls
Utilizing technology to be more efficient

How we know she knows what she’s doing:
She earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Ashland University where she graduated magna cum laude. She was also a member of Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society while in college Anita completed her internship with Rea prior to formally joining the Rea team in 2005

How she’s helped clients meet their business needs:
When a client was struggling to correct certain management letter comments and a deficiency that was being repeated year after year, Anita provided them with templates and references to follow to ensure future consistency and properly recorded monthly and quarterly distributions of revenue. After an audit that took place afterward, the treasurer was able to report back to the board that the issue had been fully corrected
An individual at a school district was promoted to the assistant superintendent position and, as a result, inherited the responsibility of ensuring that the school complied with federal requirements pertaining to the numerous federal grants the district receives. This individual had limited knowledge about federal grants and controls and procedures to implement to ensure that the school adhered to them. After spending some time with this person and the rest of the management team, Anita was able to suggest possible internal controls that would assist in the school’s goal of being compliant with federal grants which prevented them from losing future federal funding.

Furthering her professional development, Anita is involved with:
The American Institute of CPAs
The Ohio Society of CPAs

When she’s not in the office, you can find her:
Spending time with her husband, Jeff, and their children, Abigail and Luke.