Jeffrey Ellis is a Managing Director at Huron Consulting Group where he is responsible for conducting independent investigations of financial statement misstatements. Prior to joining Huron, Jeff was a partner in Grant Thornton’s National Professional Standards Group and Arthur Andersen’s Professional Standards Group, where he consulted with engagement teams on a wide range of accounting issues. Jeff’s primary areas of emphasis include accounting for leases, stock-based compensation arrangements, derivatives, and debt and equity transactions.

Jeff was a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) working groups on EITF Issue No. 00-11, “Lessor’s Evaluation of Whether Leases of Certain Integral Equipment Meet the Ownership Transfer Requirements of FASB Statement No. 13,” EITF Issue No. 00-23, “Issues Related to the Accounting for Stock Compensation under APB Opinion No. 25 and FASB Interpretation No. 44,” EITF Issue No. 01-8, “Determining Whether an Arrangement Contains a Lease,” and EITF Issue 02-2, “When Certain Contracts That Meet the Definition of Financial Instruments Should Be Combined for Accounting Purposes.”

Jeff has written articles on leasing topics for LJN’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter and co-authored chapters on lease accounting in Equipment Leasing—Leveraged Leasing, published by Practicing Law Institute, and Operating Leases: The Complete Guidance, published by Amembal & Associates. Jeff was a past contributing author to the CCH publication, CCH Accounting for Compensation Arrangements.

Jeff is a graduate of Colorado State University, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Reporting Committee of the Institute of Management Accountants.

Editorial Reviewing Author: Editorial Reviewing Author: Ronald G. Pippin, CPA, Managing Director, Accounting Research Manager

Ron authors, maintains, and approves all of the updates to the accounting and SEC content on the Accounting Research Manager (ARM) database. He also provides oversight guidance to the audit and other material added to ARM. Among other responsibilities at ARM, Ron reviews the completeness of the content for this publication, CCH Accounting for Leases.

Ron has 20 years of public accounting experience, including six years as an audit partner with Arthur Andersen. He also served as the senior technical accounting officer at a Chicago-based Fortune 50 firm for 10 years. Before Ron joined CCH, he worked in Andersen's Professional Standards Group (commonly known as the ‘‘national office’’), where he consulted on technical accounting matters and contributed to the authoring and maintenance of ARM’s content. Wolters Kluwer purchased ARM from Andersen in 2002.

Ron is a CPA, a graduate of the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a member of Financial Executives International, the AICPA, and the Illinois Society of CPAs.