Partner Feature - Tonetta L. Conner, CPA, Managing Partner
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At Harrington Group, we have created an environment of professionalism and creativity, a place that is client oriented and where everyone takes pride in their work and discovering what it takes to meet the individual needs of our clients. We didn’t achieve all this over night, our company’s success is the product of the hard work and dedication of our partners. We wanted to take a few minutes and introduce you to the people to whom we owe it all, who keep us motivated.
This month we are focusing our attention on Tonetta L. Conner, CPA, Managing Partner at Harrington Group, CPAs, LLP. Tonetta is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA). She also holds a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation from the AICPA.
For more than fifteen years Tonetta L. Conner has worked with nonprofits in California through the provision of auditing, accounting, advisory and educational services. Tonetta developed a “thirst” for accounting when she was just fifteen years old. Managing “mock” corporate books in an assignment for her high school accounting course gave her her first taste of what the accounting field had to offer. She knew then that she wanted to do this for a living, help others manage their businesses. This new found passion led her to pursue a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly after, she became a certified CPA.
When Tonetta first began her career, she worked at a design-build firm as a controller and later at a Los Angeles based CPA firm as an accountant. In June of 1997, Tonetta began working for Harrington Group. Finally she was in a position to utilize her passion for accounting married with the opportunity to help clients in the nonprofit sector. Tonneta has spent her years at Harrington Group providing tax, accounting, management advisory and audit services to a wide range of nonprofit organizations, this is her area of expertise. Tonetta firmly believes that Harrington Group’s focus is to be a “trusted nonprofit partner,” whether it be for mental health agencies, privately funded community organizations, private or charter schools, or foster care organizations.
Tonetta also has a passion for teaching and public speaking, and has been blessed with the opportunity to share her knowledge through speaking at the California CPA Education Foundation’s Nonprofit Organizations Conference and as a speaker for CompassPoint focusing on nonprofit finance. Tonetta also gets the opportunity to teach and inform through Harrington Group’s series of “NPO Symposiums” which occur quarterly and present the opportunity for her to provide the board members of their clients with pertinent information and training regarding the business and financial management of their organizations.
Tonetta is not only passionate about finance, she has a hunger and passion for adventure and life. She has been called a “daredevil” and “world traveler” by those that know her the best. She loves her family and spending time with them going to events and seeing the world. Perhaps the biggest insight into who Tonetta is and what drives her at the core is her view of the world and main reason for her love of travel - her quest for cultural enlightenment. She best describes her reason for adventure around the world as,“we live in a society made of up people from various backgrounds and cultures. Seeking to know more about other cultures is to embrace that fact.” This broad world view and open mind is why our clients are lucky to have her by their sides, using her accounting, business and global knowledge to help their businesses grow.
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