Travis Nielsen
Background
- Travis co-founded The Cadence Group in 2005. He currently leads the SOX compliance practice. Under Travis' leadership and vision, The Cadence Group has grown into Utah's premier provider of SOX compliance services.
- Prior to Cadence, Travis worked for over seven years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Assurance and Business Advisory Services practice, primarily within the Mining Industry and the Oil and Gas Industry. His primary responsibility at PricewaterhouseCoopers was in supervising, planning, and completing financial statement audits, including an assessment of the client's control environment.
- Travis' clients have included both large, international public companies, as well as Utah-based businesses. His experience in public accounting has included a wide range of complex accounting issues, including SEC filings and comment letters, debt restructurings, and stock compensation issues. Travis has been involved in the Sarbanes-Oxley attestation for over 25 public clients, where he was responsible for his clients' application of the COSO framework, process documentation and assessing the operating effectiveness of controls over financial reporting.
- Travis was an adjunct professor at Westminster College, where he taught senior level accounting courses in auditing. In addition, Travis teaches the Sarbanes-Oxley courses globally for the reputable SEC Institute and has instructed hundreds of participants in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Travis served as the Treasurer and Executive Committee member of the Board of Directors of Special Olympics Utah (SOUT) from 2003 until 2009.
- Travis is a certified public accountant and member of the AICPA.
Recent Projects
- Evaluated the scoping documentation, developed control documentation (including narratives, flowcharts and control matrices), designed tests to assess the operating effectiveness, and executed these test for identified key controls on behalf of management for over 25 public companies.
- Provided technical expertise to help prepare a private company for a GAAP audit, including drafting and implementing significant accounting policies and procedures.
- Drafted a response to an SEC Comment letter for a public geothermal energy company defining the appropriate accounting policies to be used by the company and explaining the differences between the mining industry and geothermal energy industry to the SEC.
- Performed several internal audit projects for clients to help identify and mitigate risks and improve processes in areas such as payroll and human resources, sales and use tax, and customer pricing.
Education
- Master's Degree in Accounting (MAcc) from Brigham Young University
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