Mark Bailey, CPA, ABV - Managing Partner

Mark consults extensively with clients on business valuations, merger and acquisitions, tax planning, accounting, and management. He is involved with the legal community on an ongoing basis in areas of dissenting shareholder action and other litigation support. He is also the lead audit partner on several of the firm’s largest audit engagements.

Starting his career in the Los Angeles office of international firm, Arthur Young & Company, Mark advanced to supervisor in their Southern California bank audit division. He then became the audit partner for a two-office firm along the central coast of California.

In 1984, he founded Mark Bailey & Company after relocating to Reno related to a significant client matter. Mark built the firm around his belief in the development, nurturing, and respect of people as knowledge workers. Living this core value has resulted in the firm becoming a magnet for gifted, talented people seeking fulfillment from their career in contrast to the grind-mentality of most CPA firms.

The innovative spirit that drives Mark in his business carries over to into the advice and counsel given to each client he has the honor of serving.

Education & Achievements
BS in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from California
Polytechnic State University. Licensed Certified Public Accountant in California
and Nevada. Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the AICPA. AICPA Certificates
of Education Achievement in tax planning for closely held businesses and
business valuation.

Associations
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Nevada Society of CPAs, California
Society of CPAs.

Publications
Author: Innovative Practice Management: Turning the Profession on its Head, a
blog to inspire other professionals to challenge the status quo. Published in a
variety of professional periodicals.

Speaking
Lecturer at the university level and speaker for various accounting and legal organizations.

Community
Make-A-Wish Foundation, board member; Reno Air Race Association, past
board member; Reno Philharmonic, past board member.