David Abbate

Background

About David Abbate

I am a FASB trained Controller and Accounting Policy expert with 25-years of experience and the self-awareness to succeed in a wide variety of organizational environments ranging from large, publicly-traded multinationals to private companies. I have broad industry experience including P&C and life insurance, Software-as-a-Service, and manufacturing, and have been heavily involved in preparing SEC Form S-1 filings for two initial public offerings. My specialty is technical accounting but have also served in leadership capacities over SOX compliance and SEC and Statutory financial reporting as well as a subject matter expert on large inter-company projects for significant transactions, the implementation of ERP systems and SOX compliant internal control environments. Topics of accounting expertise include: Revenue Recognition, Financing Transactions, Internal-use Software, Variable Interest Entities, Stock-based Compensation, Foreign Currency, Insurance and Reinsurance, Deposit Accounting, Statutory Accounting, Investments, Hedging and Derivatives, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Fair Value Measurement, Contingencies, and Business Combinations.