Yellow Book and Single Audit Update - 2023

Instructor bio

Tom Cox is a controller for Public Risk Underwriters of Florida, Inc. (PRU), a Brown & Brown subsidiary that offers accounting and underwriting support to the Preferred Governmental Insurance Trust, a public entity risk pool providing property and casualty insurance to local governments in Florida. Prior to joining PRU, Tom’s experience includes nearly twenty years as the chief financial officer of the Act, Corp., a not-for-profit community mental heath center in Daytona Beach, and, before that, about ten years at Ernst & Young where he was an audit manager specializing in governmental and not-for profit accounting and auditing. Tom has also been an instructor for Becker Professional Review in Orlando since 1990 and been involved with various elements of either course editing and updates or course development since 1991 including governmental auditing. A senior faculty member for the course, Tom’s duties have also included national instructor for various elements of the review program and both presentation and development of continuing professional education courses. He is a 1978 graduate of Stetson University, a member of the Institute of Management Accountants since 1980 and a member of both the American and Florida Institutes of Certified Public Accountants since 1982. Tom is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).