James W. Brackens, Jr. is the Vice President of Ethics and Practice Quality at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). His responsibilities include providing strategic and tactical direction for the following teams:
- Peer Review
- Professional Ethics
- Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center
- Governmental Audit Quality Center
Prior to joining the AICPA in 2006, Mr. Brackens was associated with both international and local public accounting firms, including managing his own practice for seventeen years in which he served primarily closely held businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Brackens also served as a peer reviewer and performed more than 300 peer reviews of local accounting firms.
Mr. Brackens is a member of the AICPA, the North Carolina Association of CPAs and theVirginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA). Heis licensed in North Carolina and Virginia. He has served in various volunteer leadership positions for both the AICPA and VSCPA, including chairing the VSCPA’s Peer Review Committee, member and Vice-Chairof the VSCPA’s Board of Directors and as a member of the AICPA’s Professional Ethics Executive Committee. In addition, Brackens was the initial author and primary presenter of the VSCPA’s CPE course, Ethics: Your License Depends on It! and continued in this capacity until joining the AICPA.
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