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James (Jim) Ferrone is a Director at Grassi with more than 30 years of public accounting experience. He specializes in providing audit, compilation, review, tax planning, and management advisory services to nonprofit organizations and family-owned businesses in the manufacturing and professional services industries. Jim’s expertise also includes Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) audits and Yellow Book and nonprofit auditing.

Jim is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in New Jersey and New York and a licensed Public School Accountant (PSA) in New Jersey.

He is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the New York State Society of CPAs (NYCPA) and the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA). Jim previously served as President of the Essex County Chapter of the NJCPA and has participated in several of its committees. He is a frequent speaker and author on nonprofit and ERISA topics and regularly attends seminars and workshops focused on ERISA and OMB Uniform Guidance nonprofit auditing.

Jim earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from St. Thomas Aquinas College and has completed additional professional studies through Upstream Academy. He is a member of the St. Thomas Aquinas College Hall of Fame.