Erik Blyar is a Director in Orange County with over 10 years of experience in in public accounting. Erik’s expertise centered around client service across a broad range of industries across various technical accounting transactions and Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) compliance projects.
While serving in CNM’s compliance and risk advisory service line, Erik led multiple Internal Audit SOX Compliance projects, including numerous first-year 404(b) implementations, development of a material weakness remediation plan, assisted clients through pre-IPO SOX Readiness activities, drafted initial internal control gap assessments, narratives, flowcharts, and risk and control matrices, and tested business process controls for operating effectiveness.
While serving in CNM’s accounting and transaction advisory service line, Erik led multiple engagements centered around adopting significant accounting standard updates (e.g., ASC 606 and ASC 842) customized to each client’s needs and requirements. Erik’s additional areas of experience include IPO readiness (e.g., financial reporting uplift to Reg S-X, technical memo preparation and review, S-1 project management, etc.), convertible debt issuances and modifications, financial statement and disclosure drafting under GAAP and IFRS, issuances of convertible preferred and common stock, business combination accounting, common control spin-off transactions, evaluating the accounting implications of hybrid financial instruments.
Prior to joining CNM, Erik worked at Deloitte as an audit senior, where he planned, coordinated, and executed financial statement audits in various industries with revenues ranging from $20 million to $2.6 billion across public and private companies and assisted a company through the IPO process.
