Taj Tariq
Managing Director
Karem (Taj) Tariq is a Managing Director in CNM’s San Diego Office with over 15 years of experience in public accounting. Current role includes team builder & technician of accounting, financial reporting, and internal controls advisory services. Accounting expertise includes US GAAP & IFRS technical accounting research, PCAOB & AICPA financial reporting, SEC filings & regulations (e.g., Form 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, S-4, and 8-K), IPOs & SPACs, mergers & acquisitions, Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls readiness & implementations, flow charts & narratives, and business process improvements.
Representative US GAAP accounting experience includes revenues, leases, business combinations, segments, complex debt & equity financial instruments, goodwill, intangibles, long-lived assets, inventories, stock-based compensation, earnings per share, exit & disposal costs, non-financial asset sales, and investments. Representative financial reporting experience includes preparing and reviewing US GAAP and PCAOB compliant financial statements and accompanying required disclosures. Experience also includes first time financial statement preparation, public company disclosure benchmarking, SEC article 11 pro formas, and management discussion & analysis (MD&A).
Prior to joining CNM, Taj worked at KPMG as an assurance senior manager, where he conducted public & private company financial audit statements and internal control assessments. The projects’ size and complexity ranging from privately held entities with multi-million revenues to multinational publicly traded entities with multi-billion revenues.
Education, Certifications and Associations
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, B.S., Accounting & Finance
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, M.S., Professional Accounting
- Licensed CPA – Wisconsin
Industry Specialty
- Consumer Products
- Technology
- Life Sciences
- Energy
- Restaurants & Hospitality
- Industrial Manufacturing