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Noah Kaufman

Senior Accountant
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Vienna, VA

 

For Noah Kaufman, a love for accounting runs in his family. His father was a CPA for the federal government and Noah's following in his footsteps.

Noah is a CPA for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal agency responsible for all U.S. Government and government-sponsored, non-military, international broadcasting. Each week 165 million listeners, viewers and internet users around the world listen to U.S. international broadcasting programs, which are broadcast in more than 40 languages.

His office is “fascinating.” They have TV and radio studios in the building and even occasionally have music stars in the studio. Since Noah joined the organization, he’s seen Jordin Sparks and Michelle Branch perform in their studio.

While working at the BBG, Noah has enhanced his “knowledge of federal accounting as well as business operations. I have helped create the financial statements for Voice of America and supported the financial statement audit.”

Being a CPA has also allowed him to see a lot of the country. “I hadn’t been west of the Mississippi until I started working,” he says. “But since then I’ve been able to go everywhere from San Francisco to Laguna Beach, California; to Charleston, South Carolina, Dallas, New York City, Chicago, Phoenix, Burlington, VT and a ton of other places.”

Noah stays busy outside of the workplace as well. He’s an instructor at the University of Maryland and has been a volunteer high school wrestling coach for 11 years and recently coached a youth league wrestling clinic. As if that’s not enough, Noah ran the New Orleans marathon in February 2010, ran two half marathons in 2010 and 2011 and is training for another one in Hawaii.

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