George M. Wilson, CPA, is a Vice President at the SEC Institute, where he teaches courses in SEC reporting and related areas. He is the author of the Institute’s Advanced SEC Reporting Skills, Implementing SOX 404 Internal Control Reporting, SOX 404: Climbing the Learning Curve!, Understanding SFAS 133, Applying SFAS 109: Accounting for Income Taxes and Accounting for Business Combinations and Goodwill courses. Before joining the SEC Institute George was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Saint Thomas, in Saint Paul, MN. He was director of the University's Accounting MBA program and also taught in the undergraduate accounting department. He has received the AICPA’s Outstanding Discussion Leader Award and the Minnesota State Society’s R. Glenn Berryman Award. George also served as Senior Vice President, Operations of Security Financial, where he managed the organization’s initial public offering, and as a senior manager with KPMG.

Carol A. Stacey, CPA, joined The SEC Institute as Vice President in July 2007. Carol is responsible for conducting seminars on various reporting and financial accounting topics, as well as overseeing our Conference Division. She created the SEC Institute’s programs IFRS Conference: Today’s Landscape…Tomorrow’s Challenge and Accounting for Business Combinations. Carol was the Chief Accountant of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an appointment she held for over five years beginning in February 2002. Carol began her SEC career in 1996 and her other roles included Deputy Chief Accountant, Associate Chief Accountant, Assistant Chief Accountant, and Staff Accountant. Before joining the Commission, Carol worked for an SEC registrant in various capacities, including Director of Financial Reporting and Divisional Controller. Prior to that, Carol was an auditor in the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Cheryl L. Linthicum, PhD, CPA, CMA, is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She served as Academic Fellow at the U.S. SEC in 2005-2006 in the Office of the Chief accountant, and in 2007-2008 at the Division of Corporation Finance, where she participated in IFRS filing reviews and led staff training. She teaches financial and international accounting at the undergraduate, executive MBA and PhD levels and has been honored with college level and university-wide teaching awards. Her research interests include the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the value relevance of 20-F reconciliations. Her publications appear in Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, CPA Journal, Strategic Finance, and the Multinational Business Review. Cheryl is the past President of the International Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

Mitchell M. Krasnoff, CPA, is a Vice-President of The SEC Institute and one of our most popular and highly-rated instructors. A former partner of Laventhol & Horwath, he was the firm's National Director of Accounting for many years. Mitch has been extremely active in the accounting standards-setting process, serving on various committees and task forces of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Accounting Standards Board. His national reputation and speaking skills make Mitch a "natural" for teaching our ever-increasing number of SEC Reporting Skills workshops, as well as our MD&A In Depth, Form 10-K In Depth, and the SEC Reporting for Foreign Companies: Form 20-F workshops, which he created.