About

Samuel A. Monastra, CPA is a Director of Business Development with Fesnak and Associates, LLP.

Fesnak and Associates, LLP is a regional CPA firm that provides high quality, sophisticated audit, tax, financial management and transaction services that are relevant to our client's needs so as to enable them to achieve their business objectives.

The practiced is focused on:
Middle Market privately held companies ( generally $300M in revenues and below)
Public companies – micro-cap to multi-national companies
Not-for-profit

Industries:
Life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, pharma services
Technology, business services
Manufacturing, distribution
Consumer products
Alternative energy
Venture Capital and Private Equity


Mr. Monastra spent 2 years as a Senior Manager with Crowe Horwath LLP as a member of the Risk Consulting Services Practice Unit, which provides the following services: Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley Consulting Services, IT Audit, Data Security, Identity & Access Management, Application & Network Security Consulting.

Previously he spent 4 years as a Division Director for Robert Half International, where he developed and managed a $5 million consulting practice servicing mid-cap through Fortune 100 companies. Services provided to clients included: Sarbanes-Oxley support, Internal Audit, and SEC Reporting

Mr. Monastra spent the first 20 years of his career in public accounting as a partner in a regional accounting firm and as a Senior Manager in the Assurance Practice of KPMG.

Mr. Monastra is a graduate of St. Joseph’s University where he received a B.S. in Accounting.

Specialties:Frequent speaker on the following topics: Revenue Recognition, GAAP, IFRS, Financial Reporting. Member of the Speakers Bureau of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA). Member of the PICPA Committee on Cooperation with the Bar