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Yanan Wang is a Vice President in Stout’s Accounting & Reporting Advisory. She is a CPA and MBA and has over 10 year of experience providing audit and advisory support to both public and private sector clients. She has extensive expertise across multiple industries, including banking, insurance, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, software, and professional services. Ms. Wang has broad experience in technical accounting matters (e.g., revenue recognition, leases, debt and equity, investments valuation, derivatives, IFRS/US GAAP conversions, etc.). She also has extensive experience in SEC reporting, accounting standard adoption, SOX implementation, internal audit assessments, regulatory reporting, accounting operations, and audit readiness. Prior to joining Stout, Ms. Wang provided accounting and finance consulting services through Salo. Prior to her consulting experience, Ms. Wang was a manager at EY in the financial services assurance practice.

Elizabeth Kettler is a Director in Stout’s Accounting & Reporting Advisory practice. She has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry, working in both external audit and advisory roles. Ms. Kettler has experience with a variety of sectors, including banking, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and FinTech. Ms. Kettler advises financial services firms on technical accounting, financial reporting, and financial regulatory reporting issues. Areas of technical focus include SEC reporting, financial statement and disclosure preparation, revenue recognition, fair value measurement, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Section 404 compliance, and financial regulatory reporting and related internal controls. Ms. Kettler has supported clients with IPO/SOX readiness, audit or regulatory remediation efforts, accounting standard adoption, specialized internal audits, root cause analyses, accounting and reporting process enhancements, business requirements for large-scale transformational initiatives, due diligence financial statement analysis, and investigations related to financial regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Stout, Ms. Kettler was a Senior Manager at EY, where she provided financial accounting advisory services to financial services firms and led the coordination of a full-service suite of solutions for capital markets clients. Ms. Kettler also worked in EY’s Minneapolis and London audit practices, where she audited public and private companies under U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and U.K. GAAP.

Manish Garg is a Director in Stout’s Accounting & Reporting Advisory practice. He has over 20 years of experience in a variety of accounting and financial leadership roles, including controllership, FP&A, project management, technical accounting, and transaction advisory. He brings a solid technical advisory background, including advising on new and complex transactions, implementing new accounting guidance, and assessing and analyzing accounting and reporting impacts of financial statements. Mr. Garg advises both publicly traded and privately owned companies on compliance with U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Mr. Garg’s extensive expertise lies in the financial services industry, specifically in the areas of business combinations, financial instruments, derivatives and hedging, variable interest entities, tax credits, credit losses, and more. Prior to joining Stout, Mr. Garg was a Vice President at Huntington Bank, where he provided financial accounting and reporting advisory to Huntington’s various businesses. He had also held senior positions in various departments of HSBC and led a global finance transformation project at American Express.