Andrew Lang is president of LangCPA Consulting, LLC, a firm located in the Greater Metropolitan Washington area specializing in creative solutions for nonprofits. Andrew is a nationally recognized expert who has dedicated his 35-year career to helping nonprofits improve their practices to be able to better serve their members and fulfill their missions.

Andrew has a variety of specialties based on his unusual combination of a strong financial background, his expertise as a communicator, and his absolute dedication to ethical behavior. Best known for his ability to identify and implement additional revenue opportunities, including rationally raising dues and smoothly adjusting pricing, he is also widely recognized for assisting nonprofits in making difficult decisions when challenging financial or operational issues require a truly independent third party. Another specialty involves his ability to re-design financial communications so non-financial people can understand them.

Among the organizations he has served as a consultant are the National 4-H Council, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, American Society of Association Executives, United Way, American Nurses Association, Goodwill Industries International, National Association of Counties, and National Science Teachers Association, to name just a few.

Andrew’s professional teaching and writing include educating thousands of nonprofit executives and volunteers, writing hundreds of articles, and authoring or co-authoring nearly a dozen texts. His recent work in these arenas includes creating and presenting Lang Learning’s course on Optimizing Your Financial Leadership Team, which enhances trust and effectiveness between an association’s volunteer and executive financial leadership. Andrew also created and presents the top two financial courses for the American Society of Association Executives: Financial Management for CEOs and Maximizing Non-Dues Revenue. Andrews’s articles most frequently appear in association industry publications such as Associations Now and Association Trends.

Andrew has been active in numerous organizations that serve the nonprofit community. He served 11 years on the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA’s) Annual Not-for-Profit Industry Conference Planning Committee, the last three years as chairman. He has also been a member of numerous professional committees, such as the AICPA Governmental and Not-for-Profit Expert Panel and the ASAE Finance and Business Operations Section Council. In 2008 Andrew was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Greater Washington Society of CPAs for a three-year term.