Tim Lyons, CPA, CGMA Partner Tim Lyons is a partner with Mauldin & Jenkins and is a certified public accountant as well as a chartered global management accountant. His experience covers a variety of clients throughout the Southeast, working mainly in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. Tim spends 100% of his time serving clients in the governmental industry, working with all types of entities ranging from large state agencies and institutions of higher education to local counties, school districts, and cities/townships. Tim also serves the firm as the partner-in-charge of the Columbia Office and as a member of the Firm's Assurance Committee which oversees the entire audit practice of Mauldin & Jenkins. Years of Professional Experience and Years with Firm Tim has more than fourteen years of experience in public accounting – a year and a half with a firm based out of Charleston, South Carolina and over thirteen years with Mauldin & Jenkins serving a wide variety of clients in the public services industry. Degree/Certifications and Audit Training Tim graduated in 2006 from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and subsequently, obtained his Masters of Science in Accountancy from the College of Charleston (South Carolina) in 2009. Tim holds active CPA licenses in both South Carolina and Georgia. Professional and Civic Activities Tim is involved in a variety of organizations to both support the governmental industry and to promote the CPA profession overall. At the national level, he is a graduate of the AICPA's Leadership Academy, Class of 2012 and is a current member of the AICPA's State and Local Government Expert Panel. As a part of this fifteen member panel, Tim works on financial reporting, audit and attest matters relevant to audits of state and local government financial statements. The expert panel protects the public interest by bringing together knowledgeable parties in the state and local government industry to deliberate and come to agreement on key state and local government issues. It also plays a significant advocacy role through analysis and comment on exposure documents of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and other proposals affecting state and local governments. Also at the national level, Tim is a member of the Special Review Committee for the Government Finance Officers' Association (GFOA), reviewing Annual Comprehensive Financial Report submissions from all across the U.S. for governments seeking to obtain the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. At the state level, Tim is involved with the state GFOA organizations as a periodic presenter at the annual conferences as well as with the State CPA societies. Outside of the CPA profession, Tim is a member of the Board of Directors for Children's Trust of South Carolina whose Board is appointed by the Governor. Children's Trust is the only statewide organization whose mission is the prevention of child abuse, neglect and injury throughout South Carolina by forming partnerships with local governmental and nonprofit organizations including many counties, school districts, and other governmental agencies.