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Diane C. O. Gilson

President - Info Plus(+) Accounting®

30+ years accounting experience including:

  • 15+ years – President & Founder, Info Plus Accounting
  • 6 years – Internal Auditor, Great Lakes Bancorp
  • 8 years – Management Accounting Manager, Great Lakes Bankcorp
  • 3 years – CPA/Accounting Staff, Regional accounting firm
  • 5 years – Varied accounting and management responsibilities

Current certifications:

  • Certified QuickBooks Enterprise ProAdvisor - (Intuit) (all years)
  • Certified Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor (all years)
  • Certified QuickBooks Consultant - (Sleeter Group Consulting Network)
  • NAHB University of Housing Instructor - (National Association of Home Builders: "Business Accounting and Job Cost” and “Financial Management” courses)

Prior certifications and experience:

  • Certified Public Accountant (15 years licensed/practicing - currently registered in Michigan, although now focused on management accounting)
  • Certified Internal Auditor (earned and utilized during banking career)
  • Intuit MasterBuilder Professional Advisor (although no longer supporting this software)

Diane Gilson created Info Plus(+) Accounting® in 1994 with the intent of providing current and future-oriented financial operating information to small and medium-sized businesses.  Since the firm’s inception, Diane has focused on helping business owners establish job-cost accounting systems and learn how to access critical day-to-day operating data using QuickBooks as their primary management accounting tool.

Diane brings more than 30 years of auditing, tax, computer accounting systems, budgeting, training, and management accounting experience to her QuickBooks consulting practice.  Before founding Info Plus, she spent 14 years in banking, first as Internal Audit Manager, and then as Manager of Management Accounting Systems, where she established bank-wide planning, goal setting, and budgeting processes, accountability reporting, and activity-based-cost profitability measurement systems.  Prior to that, she worked first for a national Honor Society, and then as a licensed CPA for a regional CPA firm.

Diane and members of her firm offer Internet-based job-cost and management accounting training.  Firm members utilize QuickBooks and Intuit Enterprise Solutions as well as internally developed products to support, trouble-shoot, and coach clients and other consulttants throughout the U.S.

She has published works in:

  • Nations’ Building News Online
  • Intuit’s QuickBooks Pro Advisor Newsletter
  • ProConnection Newsletters
  • Other industry publications

Diane has also authored, developed, and offers (available through the Info Plus Accounting webstore):

  • Book:  Accounting with QuickBooks for Home Builders & Remodelers
  • Online training: “QuickBooks for Construction” webinars (Internet-based seminars)
  • QuickBooks Template: AccountingPRO™ - a robust QuickBooks temlate & support system
  • A variety of Excel-oriented accounting support analyzers, tools, and accounting procedures

Speaking

Diane’s expertise and industry experience has earned her a variety of speaking engagements for organizations, including the Michigan Association of CPAs, CAP (Contractors’ Assistance Program), the (NARI) Remodel America (National) Show, the Dwyer Group, the Midwest Builders’ Shows, the Custom Builders Symposium, the National Remodelers’ Shows (six annual shows), the International Builders’ Show (annually since 2000) and various other national, regional, and local construction shows and training seminars.

 

 

staff_tracyTracy Brough

Tracy is a Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor and a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, where she earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. After getting her degree, she spent nine years managing the human resource departments for several local companies and earned her certification as a National Professional in Human Resources.

She then shifted her focus to accounting. In order to further her understanding of the construction industry, Tracy also became a licensed Residential Builder in the State of Michigan. As a staff accountant at Info Plus Accounting, she provides online training, file surveys, outsourced accounting and reporting services, and month-end wrap up services.

Tracy helps new clients to initially "create order from chaos," trains them in month-end accounting control procedures (e.g., bank and credit card reconciliations) and blends her human resource and accounting experience with her on-the-job construction background to bring a logical and positive approach to every job she tackles.

 


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