Joan E. Waggoner

CPA

Partner 

Joan Waggoner is the Partner in Charge of Quality Assurance for Blackman Kallick. She specializes in accounting, auditing, ethics, professional liability and quality control issues. For 12 years, until September 2002, Joan was additionally in charge of Blackman Kallick's audit practice.

Governor Pat Quinn appointed her to the Illinois Public Accountant Registration Committee of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

Joan also currently serves on the Professional Practice Executive Committee of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), an autonomous, nonpartisan, nonprofit group based in Washington, D. C. affiliated with the AICPA. She also serves, or has served, on various subcommittees and task forces of the CAQ. And she has participated in various roundtables for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and SEC.

Joan is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Illinois CPA Society (the Society). Joan previously served on the board of directors of the Society, and various committees of the Society, including the Women's Executive Committee, the Ethics Committee, as chair of the Accounting Principles Committee, and in addition as the founding chair of the Society's statewide Accounting and Assurance Services Steering Committee. She was lecturer in accounting for the University College program of Northwestern University from 1986 through 1991.

Joan is also active in other professional and community organizations. She currently serves on the board of the Evanston History Center and the audit committee of the YMCA of Evanston. She previously served on the board of the Chicago Finance Exchange and on other boards.

Joan received both her BS in Accounting and Masters of Accounting Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Articles by Joan Waggoner

• New Consolidation Standards — Who Put the VIE in Related-Party Lease Arrangements?
• Proposed Changes to Revenue Recognition Standards — Only One Proud Standard Rather than Dozens

News about Joan Waggoner

• Waggoner Chosen to Participate at Financial Accounting Foundation Roundtable
• CFO.com Quotes Waggoner in "What Were the Auditors Thinking?"
• Waggoner Chosen to Participate at PCAOB Roundtable on Auditor’s Reporting Model
• Waggoner Selected for PCAOB Roundtable Committee