Gergana Lipidakova

Gergana is a Director in the Federal Tax Group at GTM, where she focuses on tax accounting and streamlining the tax provision process by constantly bringing in new ideas and revising the existing procedures in place with auditors’ approval.

Gergana joined GTM in July of 2007 right after finishing her undergraduate degree in Accounting at Drexel University. While at GTM, she has established long term relationships with a number of GTM clients who continuously request her for assistance with their tax needs.

She makes it a top priority to stay current on tax technical approaches and regulations that impact tomorrow’s large multinational clients. Gergana has been involved in calculating federal and state effective tax rates, analyzing deferred tax accounts, carving tax accounts in the financial statements for various disclosure purposes, analyzing the tax treatment of discontinued operations, providing support for purchase accounting on the tax side, as well as calculating interim tax provisions.

As a frequent speaker, she has presented on numerous tax technical topics such as: Defining and Reporting a Tax Basis Balance Sheet, New Rules on Intercompany Accounting, Share Based Compensation Simplification, Income Tax Disclosure, and non-GAAP Reporting, among others.

Gergana was born and raised in Bulgaria and came to the United States in 2002 to attend college. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In their spare time, they love running and swimming.

DESIGNATION:
CPA, MST

EDUCATION:
B.S. in Accounting from Drexel University
M.S in Taxation from Villanova University