TERRI MCKNIGHT CPA
Director, Audit Department
Partner, Nonprofit Audit
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Terri McKnight CPA, Director of the Audit Department and Partner at Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, has more than 25 years of accounting experience in both the public and private sectors, including more than four years with large national CPA firms. Her focus is auditing and consulting for organizations within the nonprofit industry. Ms. McKnight's responsibilities include managing all phases of audit engagements and consulting for nonprofit organizations including private voluntary organizations with, or without, federal funding, associations and other charitable institutions.

Ms. McKnight has written articles and presented seminars throughout the nonprofit community related to governance best practices, new accounting standards and the effects of Sarbanes Oxley. Her most recent article, “Avoid Fraud with Effective Policies and Controls,” was published in Associations Now’s January 2011 edition. In 2010, Ms. McKnight co-presented a workshop on communicating internal control related matters identified in an audit for ASAE’s 2010 Finance and Business Operations Symposium.

Ms. McKnight also spent two years as a controller in the private sector developing and implementing accounting and internal control procedures, preparing budgets and financial forecasts and consulting on investment decisions and employee benefit plans. Her corporate experience, combined with 23 years in public accounting, provides clients with a broad understanding of financial management issues from both perspectives.

Ms. McKnight earned her Bachelor of Science degree in accounting at Christopher Newport College in Virginia.

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