Monday - Friday (and some weekends), Adrienne Gonzalez may be found in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf district, serving as Project Coordinator and new media scientist for the world's leading CPA Review course, Roger CPA Review. Since 2001, Roger CPA Review has helped over 75,000 accountants earn their CPA distinction and realize their career goals. Through her work with the company, she hawkishly follows accounting industry trends in hiring, CPA exam content, communications, and the adaptation of the industry to the wave of Gen Y accountants transitioning from college to their careers. Her specialties include new media strategies for accounting firms, content delivery, and social media as it pertains to the accounting industry. Because of her easy-going, knowledgeable style, she is often first point of contact for new accounting graduates.
Her favorite FASB pronouncement is FAS 157 and as of the date of this bio, her goodwill has not been impaired. She does, however, have a material interest in seeing the industry recover from the recession and will do everything in her power to ensure a fresh supply of talented accounting talent is continuously pumped in - call this strategy "quantitative easing: CPA edition". Adrienne is not a CPA nor does she have any desire to become one but is an honorary member of the accounting club and the industry's loudest cheerleader. She could also easily score a 99 on each section of the CPA exam were she inclined to get the 24 accounting units required to sit for the CPA exam in California and pursue licensure.
With a focus on Federal Reserve policies, programs, and shenanigans, Adrienne's Jr Deputy Accountant blog (b: 10/2008 - present) takes economics and turns it indie, seedy, and hilarious all at once. Never one to shun the opportunity to drop F-bombs when appropriate, Jr Deputy Accountant is a no-holds-barred take on the global economic meltdown with some accounting thrown in for good measure. Beyond Fedwatching, she is specifically interested in regulation and policy as they pertain to the accounting industry and finance as a whole.
In her copious amounts of free time (ha!), Adrienne is known for her hipster art in her adopted home town of San Francisco. She has had two gallery shows since 2008 in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently preparing for a third show in Southern California later this year. Her latest themes include the PPT bag of razors, deflation, central bank babble, and the dollar v euro. Obsess much? Adrienne does.
Known mostly for Fedwatching and her uncanny ability to strap on the central banker decoder ring and make sense of Fed babble, her ultimate goal is to cut through the nonsense and present realistic and simplified commentary on the financial crisis, Federal Reserve, US dollar, euro, ETFs, financials, and the occasional Big Pharma stock. She prides herself on doing so in a way that impacts both investors and "the common man" as these issues affect all areas of commerce, trading, business, and the tumultuous framework of the American economy as a whole.
Adrienne also happens to be the most tattooed, skunk-haired financial blogger on the Internet. And? She once dated an accountant who worked at the San Francisco Fed but quickly realized that this would never work, not even in Bizarro World.
