Stuart Kessler '47 Chairman, American Institute of CPAs
Stuart Kessler is a founding partner of the firm Goldstein, Golub, Kessler & Company. The firm has grown to be the eighteenth largest CPA firm in the country and the largest one office accounting firm in the world. Mr. Kessler has distinguished himself by becoming President of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) and, more recently, by being elected Chairman of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The honor of heading this 330,000 person organization is equivalent to chairing the American Bar Association or the American Medical Association in the legal and medical fields.
After earning his bachelors degree from Brooklyn College, Mr. Kessler served in the U.S. Air Force. He then earned an MBA from Baruch College, a JD from Brooklyn Law School and an LLM in taxation from NYU.
In addition to being one of the "top" CPA’s in the country, Mr. Kessler is also considered on of the most respected and knowledgeable tax and personal financial planning practitioners. He has been named by Worth Magazine as one of America’s leading financial planners in each of the past three years that they have published such ratings. Accounting Today has consistently named Mr. Kessler as one of the hundred most influential people in accounting and Money Magazine calls him one of the outstanding tax practitioners in the country.
