Alaska Offices

Michael R. Hanrahan CPA, CFP, CFE, CVA, MCBA - Graduated with HONORS with a B.S. in Business (double-majoring in accounting and finance) from Eastern Illinois University, holds an MBA and a graduate certificate in finance.  He earned his Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation, which is currently inactive and is a Master Certified Business Appraiser (MCBA), one of only a few in the nation.  He is also a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Valuation Analyst.

His primary practice areas include individual, business, corporate and trust taxation and planning, business valuations, divorce planning, pension valuation, commercial and economic damages, litigation support, financial modeling, forensic accounting, fraud investigation and individual and business financial planning.

 Prior to re-opening his practice, he was with Mikunda, Cottrell & Co. as a Principal, ran Hanrahan & Company, P.C. for 16 years, worked for Ernst & Whinney, AT&T Alascom and local CPA and consulting firms.  He is past president of the Alaskan Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants, is past secretary of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA) Alaskan chapter, and is also a member of the American Institute of CPA’s, the Alaska Society of CPA’s, The Institute of Business Appraisers (IBA), Alaska Association of Tax Consultants, the National Business Valuation Group,  and the National Association of Forensic Economics.  He has appeared on television, spoken and published on various tax, valuation and business topics, done course work in the collaborative Boston University doctoral program, taught graduate and undergraduate courses in finance, accounting and taxation at local universities, was appointed to NACVA’s national teaching team to instruct CVA recertification courses, is on the NACVA Course Review Committee and is a member of the IBA Qualifications Review Committee.