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K C. Childers CPA

Clark is a Certified Public Accountant with over 30 years of progressive accounting and finance experience. As a Partner in the Northern Virginia/Greater Washington office, he concentrates in providing consulting, accounting and auditing services to government contractors, service and technology firms, manufacturers and not-for-profit organizations. His industry experience includes working at Price Waterhouse for 17 years (6 years as an accounting and auditing partner). As a partner, he headed the Washington D.C. area entrepreneurial group and coordinated its government contracting practice. He served as an instructor in government contracting and was a frequent speaker at government contracting seminars. Clark also served as a controller for a Northern Virginia government contractor, where he oversaw all internal and external reporting requirements. Prior to joining Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, he was a founding principal of the accounting and business consulting firm Offutt Childers & Putman, P.C. A current member of the Firm’s Executive Board, Clark has extensive experience working with government contracting, engineering, professional services and technology firms. He has participated in a broad range of consulting projects in the areas of planning and budgeting, financing, allowability and allocation of costs, financial and accounting procedures, accounting systems, incentive compensation and employee benefit plans and acquisitions and divestitures. His years of experience encompass a broad corporate operations perspective, particularly in all aspects of corporate infrastructure development. He currently serves as executive director for the National Capital Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Clark currently speaks on government contracting, corporate growth and incentive compensation matters. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also received a Bachelor of Commercial Science from Benjamin Franklin University in Washington, D.C. He is a Certified Public Accountant in Virginia. Clark is currently a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Association for Corporate Growth, the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (VSCPA) and the Northern Virginia Chapter of VSCPA.