Nat Bartholomew

Overview

As one of the leaders in CLA's associations and membership organizations practice, Nat is responsible for serving many of CLA's larger, higher profile trade and professional association clients. CLA serves more than 3,100 association clients including American Beverage Association, American Hotel & Lodging Association, American Petroleum Institute, American Physical Therapy Association, Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Edison Electric Institute, Military Officers Association of America, Mortgage Bankers Association, National Association of Home Builders, and a host of other local, national and international associations. Nat has 35 years of public accounting experience, and for 31 of those years, Nat has exclusively served nonprofit clients and is a nationally recognized professional in the audit, accounting, tax, and technology issues these organizations and their related for-profit affiliates face.

Nat is a frequent speaker and author, and has addressed the memberships of ASAE and the AICPA, plus several of the country’s leading nonprofits on such topics as benchmarking and trend analyses, fraud and embezzlement, risk assessment and internal controls, cost allocation methodologies, unrelated business income tax mitigation strategies, state and local tax compliance matters, whistleblower policies and code of ethics issues, audit committees, reserves, investments, federal Form 990, and dashboard reporting. As an active member of ASAE & the Center, Nat is a former member of the Board of Directors, the Finance Committee, and former chair of the Investment Committee. Nat was also a past chair of the Industry Partner Alliance and the honorary Key Consultants Committee and a former member of the Finance & Business Operations Section Council. He has served on ASAE’s Operating Ratio Report (ORR) committee, was a member of the Associations @ Work Conference Planning Committee and was a team leader for two XDP Conferences.

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