Kia Buckner

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About Kia Buckner

Kia Buckner is the Managing Partner of Horsey, Buckner & Heffler, LLP (HBH) and has over 25 years of audit experience which includes Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP and Mitchell & Titus, LLP. Kia continues to serve a diversified client base, including closely held entities, public sector entities (including component units of the City of Philadelphia), quasi-governmental entities, various not-for-profit organizations, private foundations, commercial real estate, and employee benefit plans. Her responsibilities include planning and developing audit strategies, directing the performance of financial, compliance and performance audits, overseeing accounting service engagements and providing advisory services in connection with quality assurance and internal control process assessments.Kia oversees the Audit and Assurance practice and is responsible for the firm’s overall quality control and continuing education and adherence to the firm’s related policies and procedures in these areas. As Managing Partner, she is also responsible for the oversight of operations, practice management and human resources aspsects of the firm. She continues to teach courses on governance, internal controls and accounting and auditing research, and has been responsible for the implementation of many pronouncements on all of her public sector, employee benefit plan and not-for-profit engagements. Kia graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S. in Accounting. She is a CPA in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), and the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA). She currently serves on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Theater Company. She has previously served on the audit committee of the Philadelphia Housing Authority and the boards of the Ivy Legacy Foundation, Big Brother Big Sister of the Montgomery County Region and Headlong Dance Theater. In 2018, Kia was named by the Philadelphia Business Journal as a “Minority Business Leader”. In 2021, Kia was named to the City of Philadelphia's Tax Reform Commission.