Earl is a Member of Brown Smith Wallace with more than 30 years of experience in public accounting. He was a founding partner of Baron Salsman & Company, LLC and was actively involved in the firm for 18 years prior to their 1998 merger with Brown Smith Wallace.

Also a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), Earl has developed a niche in business valuations and litigation support. He has extensive experience working with the following industries:

• Construction
  
• Real estate
  
• Not-for-profit

His expertise led to Earl’s participation as a contributing author for a recent AICPA publication, Income Reconstruction: A Guide to Discovering Unreported Income. He also has served as a quality reviewer of other CPA firms.

Earl is a past president of the Missouri Chapter of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA).

He also has worked as a national officer for the National Associated CPA Firms (NACPAF), a network of more than 50 CPA practices throughout the U S and Canada.

Earl received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois and a Master of Science degree in Commerce from St. Louis University.

For more than ten years, he was a member of the Accountancy Department faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he taught managerial accounting.

His professional memberships include:

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  
• Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants
  
• National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts