ABOUT US

We combine the experience of a large firm with the personal attention that only a small firm can provide. Our clients come back to us year after year because they know they are in good hands. We work to develop long-term relationships; whether your needs are simple or complex, we can help.

Our Shareholders

Kenneth L. Bradley, CPA

Ken Bradley is a 1970 graduate from the University of Wyoming and has been a CPA since 1972. Mr. Bradley merged with Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard in January 2001. He was previously employed with McGladrey & Pullen, LLP and its predecessors from September 1970 to December 31, 2000. He has thirty-six years experience in litigation services, auditing, cost accounting, income tax analysis and related financial consulting services. Mr. Bradley’s experience in litigation results from being retained as either an expert or consulting witness in litigation matters. His experience includes assisting as both a consulting and trial expert in cases involving analysis of alleged loss of profits, calculation of damages resulting from specific events, general business valuations in divorce cases, and propriety and commonality of business practices.

Ken is a member of the American Institute of CPA's and the Wyoming Society of CPA's.

Elaine M. Culver, CPA

Elaine M. Culver, CPA graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas with a Bachelor of Science degree with High Honors in business in 1995. She started her career with Deloitte & Touche in Las Vegas, Nevada and joined Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard in 1999. 

Elaine has experience in financial and compliance audits of local governmental entities, as well as experience with not-for-profit agencies, for-profit public and private entities, and employee benefit plans. The largest audit for which she is responsible for planning, administering and reviewing has assets in excess of $1,000,000,000.

Elaine is a member of the AICPA and the Wyoming Society of CPA’s. She has conducted several seminars on accounting, internal control and reporting topics for a variety of groups. She is licensed as a certified public accountant in Nevada and Wyoming with an active permit to practice in both states. 

James B. Dodson, CPA

James B. Dodson graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting in 1974. He is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant with an active permit to practice in the state of Wyoming. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Wyoming, Colorado and Montana Societies of CPA's, Central Wyoming Chapter of CPA's, Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), Association of School Business Officials (ASBO), and the Wyoming Association of Municipalities (WAM).

Mr. Dodson is an audit shareholder with the firm. He is a former member of the AICPA Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee, the AICPA PCPS Technical Issues Committee, the Wyoming Society of CPA's Governmental Accounting and Auditing Committee, the Special Review Committee for the GFOA Certificate of Achievement Program, the Panel of Review for the ASBO Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting Program, the AICPA National Governmental Training Program Steering Committee, and the GASB Capital Asset Task Force. He has instructed governmental accounting and auditing seminars for the GFOA, AICPA, various state societies, and numerous other organizations over the past years.

Susan G. Frank, CPA

Susan Frank graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and from the University of Tulsa with a Master of Taxation. She is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant with an active permit to practice in the State of Wyoming. She joined Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard in September of 1999. Susan's experience with the firm has been concentrated in the area of taxation; individual, corporate, pass through entities, non-profit, estate and trust. She works with many small businesses, oil & gas, real estate and agricultural concerns in addition to individuals.

Susan is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Wyoming Society of CPA's and is a past president of the Central Wyoming Chapter of CPA's. 

Susan is active in the community where she is a presenter to various community organizations and is an adjunct faculty member at Casper College teaching Income Tax. She is past president of the Casper Kiwanis Club and currently serves as a board member. She was appointed to the Unemployment Insurance Commission in 1995 and served a six year term ending in 2001.

Dennis R. Howard, CPA, CVA

Dennis R. Howard graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting in 1970. He is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant with an active permit to practice in the state of Wyoming. He is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and has received this designation from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA).

Taxation Experience - Dennis has experience in Individual, Partnership, Corporate, Trust, Estate and other areas of tax preparation and related tax planning.

Computer Networks - Dennis has worked closely with the firm's IT specialist since the firms inception and is the chairman of this committee for the firm. 

Business Appraisals - Dennis has performed business and stock/interest valuation reports since 1985 and related consulting. He has prepared valuations for a large variety of companies and has had litigation support experience.

Previous Experience - Dennis began a career in accounting in 1970 with an International Account Firm of Hurdman, Cranston, Penny & Company [now KPMG Peat Marwick] in Denver, Colorado. He left Denver in 1974 and became a partner with a small regional firm of Myers, Howard & Company until 1982. In 1982 he merged with a Wyoming firm and the firm name became Cornia, Howard & Company.

Appraisal Education - Dennis has attended income tax related course training each year since 1970. He has also attended business appraisal course training each year since 1982.

Professional Affiliations 

• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• The Wyoming Society of Certified Public Accountants (WSCPA)
• Member of Management Consultants Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member of National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA)

Dennis has an interest in the success of the Casper community. He has worked in many capacities with the youth of in his church since 1974. He has served on many boards in the Casper area. He has served over twenty years on the boards of the Central Wyoming Counseling Center and the Central Wyoming Council Boy Scouts of America. He is currently the President of the Boy Scouts Council and Treasure for the Counseling Center.

Lee B. Maldoon, CPA

Lee B. Maldoon graduated from California State University Northridge campus in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting. Passed the CPA exam in 1982 while working with Weber, Lipshie & Co.'s Beverly Hills office. During the late eighties and nineties Lee work as the comptroller, CFO and COO of Chorus Line, Inc. and L. Lawrence & Co., two Los Angeles based garment manufacturing companies. In 1996 Lee opened his own accounting firm in Hacienda Heights, CA with an emphasis in small business and individual tax. In 2005 he expanded his practice into Wyoming with the acquisition of a local Casper firm and then merged with PMCH in 2008. Lee is licensed to practice in Wyoming and California and is a member of the AICPA, Wyoming Society of CPA's and California Society of CPA's.

Lee is active in community organizations and has served on volunteer boards with Singita Animal Sanctuary, Children and Nutrition Services and Habitat for Humanity.

T. Chris Muirhead, CPA

Chris Muirhead is a shareholder with 30 years of tax experience in Wyoming as a CPA. Chris' specialties include: corporate, pass-through entity and individual taxes, estate & gift planning, IRS dispute resolution, and expert witness in litigation support.

Chris is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and a member of the Wyoming and Colorado Society of CPA's. Chris has previously served as a member of the AICPA's Tax Executive Committee (TEC). The TEC is authorized to speak for the institute on tax matters and also designated by governing Council as a standard-setting body.

Prior to serving on TEC committee, Chris was a member of the "Tax Accreditation Task Force and he served on the Oversight Board of the AICPA Tax Information Phone System (TIPS Program). He was also a member and chairman of the "Tax Practice Improvement Committee" of the AICPA Tax Division and is past chairman of the Wyoming Society of CPA's Committee for Federal Taxation and currently serves on the Wyoming Society's Board of Directors.

Chris has had articles published for the Journal of Legal Economics and The Tax Advisor. He served on the AICPA Tax Division working group which revised the Tax Division's publication for the VTPR program and rewrote the manual called Guideline for Voluntary Tax Practice Review that is a resource for many professional tax practices who are instituting tax department quality controls or peer review programs.

Prior to being a Shareholder and Tax Partner in PMCH, Chris was with Price Waterhouse in Denver.

Chris has a vested interest in his community and has served on and chaired many volunteer community boards including: the Business Advisory Council Foundation, Natrona County School District Education Foundation, Casper Event Center and Leisure Services Board, Casper College Krampert Theater Board, Tate Foundation, Masterson Family Foundation, Wyoming Medical Center and Wyoming Medical Center Foundation.

Chris holds a CPA certificate in the following states:

• Colorado - Certificate #3793 issued 10/22/1975
• Wyoming - Certificate #477 issued 5/20/1977 

Vikki G. Nunn, CPA

Vikki is a shareholder with Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard. She graduated from the University of the State of New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business in 1989. She is licensed as a certified public accountant in Wyoming with an active permit to practice. She started her career with McGladrey & Pullen in Casper, Wyoming and joined Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard in 2001.

Vikki has performed auditing services over the past fifteen years for clients in a variety of industries including governments, construction, banks, aviation, employee benefit plans, oil and gas companies and various not-for-profit organizations. Many of these clients have retained her for assistance in building and improving their internal control systems. She also provides services for insurance company claims, police forces and attorneys connected with employee embezzlement and misappropriation of funds.

Vikki is a member of the American Institute of CPA's, Wyoming Society of CPA's and the Central Wyoming Chapter of CPA's.

Robert D. Porter, CPA

Robert D. Porter, CPA, is a graduate of Casper College and a 1973 graduate with Honors from the University of Wyoming. He has been a CPA since 1975 and has gained considerable experience in tax, auditing, financial reporting, consulting and accounting systems for such industries as manufacturing companies, oil and gas, oil field service companies, construction companies, bulk dealers, non-profit organizations, and wholesale and retail trade. He is a member of the American Institute of CPA's, past president of the Wyoming Society of CPA's, and is a past president of the Central Wyoming Chapter of CPA's.

Bob is active in performing peer reviews of other CPA firms, under the AICPA peer review program. He has performed reviews since 1982 on numerous other CPA firms to report on whether these firms meet the stringent quality control standards of the profession.

Alexandra Wilkinson, CPA, CFE, CFIS

Alexandra is a shareholder with Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard. She is responsible for numerous audit engagements in both the public and private sectors. Alexandra’s experience includes reconstruction of accounting records, fraudulent financial transactions analysis, data mining using IDEA software, internal control reviews, pretrial investigations, assistance in court-related deposition preparation, and expert witnessing. 

With over fifteen years as a Certified Public Accountant, Alexandra is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Forensic Insurance Specialist. As a Certified Forensic Insurance Specialist, Alexandra received extensive training in the methodology of investigative accounting in the insurance environment including business interruption claims, inventory and contents claims, property damage claims, accounts receivable claims, and fidelity claims. Alexandra understands the insurance policies, coverages and environment having worked in the insurance industry for a number of years.

Alexandra graduated in 1992 from the University of the Redlands in Redlands, California with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Management. She started her career as a CPA in San Francisco, before moving to Wyoming in 1997. Alexandra is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in California and Wyoming.

Professional experience

• Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard,
  Casper, Wyoming 2000 - Present
• McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, 
  Casper, Wyoming 1997 - 2000
• Tomei & Chu, CPA’s, 
  San Francisco,California 1992 - 1996
• Sedgwick James, 
  Los Angeles, California 1990 - 1992
• Rollins, Burdick & Hunter, 
  Universal City, California 1986 - 1990
• Hartford Steam Boiler 
  Inspection and Insurance Company,
  Universal City, California 1981 - 1986

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Business and Management, University of Redlands, California, 1992

Professional designations

• Certified Public Accountant (licensed in California and Wyoming)
• Certified Fraud Examiner 
• Certified Forensic Insurance Specialist

Additionally, Casper office personnel are proactive in Continuing Professional Education, both as instructors and students, and are deeply involved, in leadership roles, in State and National professional organizations in an effort to continually improve the scope and product of the professional accounting profession.

Managers and CPAs:

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Our History

Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard was established on January 1, 1991 by the merger of Porter, Muirhead & Co., CPA's, Cornia, Howard and Company and James B. Dodson formerly of Harris, Huber and Company. In January 2001, Ken Bradley, Vikki Nunn & Alexandra Wilkinson, merged with PMCH from McGladrey & Pullen LLP. and as of November 2009, Lee Maldoon and his firm merged with PMCH as well. The predecessor firms were established to deliver services to clients at the highest level of competence. Prior to merging, each firm had grown to become medium sized local practices. The merging of these three practices resulted in the development of one of the largest local firm in the State of Wyoming. While growth alone is no measure of competence, we believe it is an indication of client satisfaction with the quality of our services.

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Our Credentials

The firm and/or its staff are members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Wyoming Society of CPA's, Casper Chapter of CPA's, Government Finance Officers' Association and the Wyoming Association of Municipalities. The firm is also a member of the Private Companies Practice Division of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, we strive to improve our community through involvement in various civic organizations and to upgrade our profession by becoming involved in the community and in professional organizations. Our firm is required to have a Peer Review conducted by an independent third party every three years. The following link is a copy of the the audit opinion received for our accounting and auditing practice. This link also includes a letter from our AICPA representative accepting the completed audit. Link

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Our Areas of Specialization

In providing client services, Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard applies a management consulting approach to all of our engagements. That is, we seek to help client management in all areas, financial and non-financial, by drawing from the specialized talents and experiences of our professional personnel. This approach enables us to more fully serve the needs of each client and permits us to offer a broad spectrum of competence and talent in all areas of the services offered.

Porter, Muirhead, Cornia & Howard has a diversified practice, offering services in the areas of:

We operate our own PC Network Computer System. We strive to keep an updated library and we continually exceed the minimum requirements for continuing education for our professional staff.

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