The firm's 18 professionals and support team members provide a full range of accounting, integrated business services, and consulting services to more than 500 corporate clients and more than 600 individual clients. These services include: budgeting and forecasting; business succession; business tax planning; business valuations; buy/sell agreements; forensic accounting; gift and estate planning; litigation support; payroll services; reinsurance; retirement planning; strategic planning; and trusts.

 

Mr. Smoker is past president and senior advisor for the Center for Family Owned Businesses in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This organization assists in the transfer of family owned businesses from generation to generation.

PERSONAL BACKGROUND

Mr. Smoker is a graduate of John Harris High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.   He was certified as a CPA in Pennsylvania in 1976 and in West Virginia in 1986.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Smoker was recently named liaison on behalf of INPACT Americas to the Forum of Firms, a membership organization established up by the International Federation of Accountants to maintain quality standards and provide a disciplinary structure for accounting firms that conduct transnational audits.

 

Mr. Smoker has been extremely active in promoting international networking. He is a past president and the current chairman of INPACT Americas, a national network of accounting firms. INPACT Americas provides a means for independent firms to make referrals and exchange information and expertise nationwide. It also provides international links through sister organizations—INPACT International Ltd. in Europe and APACT in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Mr. Smoker has traveled extensively, attending and/or speaking at conferences in Austria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, and in Bali, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.

 

In 1999, Mr. Smoker's firm established an exchange program with the accounting firm of Häckl und Partner, GmbH, in Landsberg, Germany, near Munich.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Mr. Smoker is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Business Appraisers, Inc., the National Association of Public Accountants, the Pennsylvania Association of Public Accountants, and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

 

He has been widely active in civic affairs and is a director of the Kevin L. Smith Foundation, the Second Mile Foundation, and Visions International, Inc. He was a finalist for the Central Pennsylvania Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997.