Meet Our Team

Upon completion of his Accounting degree he began his Accounting career with Grant Thornton LLP and spent five months doing forensic accounting and SEC reporting and financial restatement for HealthSouth in Birmingham, Alabama. This involved locating fraudulent data and restating the financial statements using individual financial data from over 1,400 locations across the US. The Financial statements were restated and consolidated at the corporate level covering all facilities for five years, some of which were reported quarterly. Ben was able to partially automate this process using his IT background and accounting knowledge by developing excel macros and several SQL programs to obtain data from database files and word files and put it in accounting formats by month and consolidate these up to the corporate level resulting in excel financials by facility by quarter. Upon completion of this automation Ben became a team leader and began training employees joining the project. Upon Ben’s team’s completion Ben returned to the Denver office of Grant Thornton and performed audits for public companies, private companies, governmental entities, non profits and did Sox 404 Engagements, IT governance and IT Sox testing.

Ben left Grant Thornton to go to a large regional firm in Denver and while there managed public company audits, private company audits and nonprofit audits. Ben also developed, planned and managed the firm’s first successful SAS 70 engagement (now SSAE 16 engagements) and continued to manage and refine the process for these engagements going forward and created a framework for the firm to perform these audits and managed this process. Ben also did Sox 404 consulting, implementation and Audit testing for several clients as well as IT Consulting. While here. Ben worked with clients in the areas of Manufacturing and Distribution, Mining, Energy (including oil and gas, solar and natural gas), Broker-Dealers, Construction, Information and Communications, Real estate, Healthcare, Biomedical Sciences, Telecommunications and retail. Ben also traveled to multiple locations in Canada, the US and South America for several different public and private mining clients.

Ben then left this firm to start his own public accounting firm. He began by specializing in taxation but quickly expanded to private audits, valuation (he holds a Certified Valuation License from NACVA), litigation and eventually back to PCAOB audits.

In his free time Ben enjoys Jeeping in his CJ-7 that he built from scratch, horseback riding, backpacking, fishing, camping, hunting, sailing, hiking and spending time with his wife and three children.

Brady has worked as a consultant for a majority of his career. As a consultant Brady was able to work with a wide range of people and companies on a diverse number of projects and issues. Several clients engaged him to perform senior or management accounting services during times of transition or on particularly difficult matters. Clients who engaged him in this capacity ranged from mid size oil and gas companies to larger construction companies and a nationwide leader in manufactured housing communities. But many of his engagements brought him on for support and expertise on complex projects or issues. He has worked with the Sterling Rice Group to research and perform an extensive financial analysis for their client, The California Almond Board. He developed the model outlining of all the US sales of almonds and almond based products in comparison to competitive products for eight retail groups. He has also worked with the Director of Finance and the Director of Housing and Human Services to build annual and quarterly reports for the Boulder County Housing Authority Board meetings and department managers. Blockbuster Video (Dish Network) inventory group engaged Brady to help develop and implement a month end close process for their team  that required only minimal personnel and time. This enabled Dish Network to reallocate the accounting staff to other groups during the liquidation and wind down of Blockbuster operations. To accomplish this Brady had to developing automated models for complex issues including inventory reserves, gross margins and inventory valuation analysis. Brady also has experience in corporate finance of large multinational conglomerates, cost accounting for a fortune 500 medical device manufacturer and  a forensic audit for large national retailer.

Brady joined BF Borgers CPA PC in early 2015 and has worked with our US and Asian clients. He brings his diverse experience and knowledge of US GAAP. In his free time Brady enjoys spending time with his family, is an avid fly fisherman and also enjoys backcountry skiing and rock climbing. 

Eric joined a small CPA firm in Taiwan after leaving Deloitte and a few years of financial planning and consultant positions. The firm was engaged in a project for an audit of 2-year consolidated financial statement restatement for a large Taiwanese public company with over ten operating entities. Eric was able to lead the fieldwork with 15 staff in various locations including Taiwan, China, and the U.S. The audit team completed the work within 4 months and he has expressed a highly effective and efficient of project management to meet client’s expectation and satisfaction.

In order to gain more in-depth financial accounting knowledge in connection to a real corporate world, Eric joined a Taiwanese list company as an accounting manager. Soon he was assigned to its subsidiaries in China acting as a CFO to assist their debt restructuring process, new investor coordination, and daily financial and accounting supervision. He also had frequent interactions with national and local tax authorities, foreign exchange administration, industry and commerce administration, and banks. These hands-on experiences enhanced his capabilities in audit profession.

Eric determined to pursue different opportunities outside of the comfort zone in his early thirties. He and the family flew to Dallas, Texas to earn his master degree in accounting. Before completion of the program in late 2012, he passed all four section of US CPA exam in one attempt within an exam window (two months), and also received an offer from GHP Horwath, P.C. (GHP) in Denver, Colorado, which was later merged into Crowe Horwath LLP on Jan. 1, 2017. He then obtained the CPA license in Colorado on early 2013.

During the 4 years of employment in GHP, Eric has mainly assigned to Asian-Pacific based US public company financial statement audit engagements. He was shortly promoted to an audit manager in Jan 2016 and led one $400+ million revenue China based US listed client and a couple of smaller private company clients. He also assisted in financial statement audits of several Asian-Pacific based clients who listed in US and Canada. These clients have operations in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, New Zealand, and so on. He also participated in an IPO audit project for a real estate group in England, and a carve-out oil and gas asset acquisition project in Houston, Texas. He focuses on US and Canada listed company audits with US GAAP and IFRS accounting standards, and specializes in industries such as garment manufacturing, wholesale and retail, agriculture, telecom, software, petrochemical, and e-commerce. Before the merge took effective on Jan 1, 2017, Eric joined B F Borgers CPA PC (BF Borgers) to keep serving Asian-Pacific based public clients with his expertise.

In his free time Eric enjoys golfing, camping, skiing, and road trips with his wife and three children.