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Katie Erkkila

Partner, National Professional Practice Director, Audit Services, Grant Thornton LLP
Partner, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Chicago, Illinois

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Executive summary

Katie Erkkila is an Audit & Assurance partner and the National Professional Practice Director (NPPD) for Grant Thornton’s Central Region.  She works with offices throughout the region on identification and resolution of accounting, auditing and regulatory matters.  Prior to her role as NPPD, Katie was an Audit partner in the Chicago office and served as the professional standards partner for the Midwest.

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Experience

Katie has more than twenty-five years of accounting and auditing experience and has been with Grant Thornton for substantially all her career.  In addition to working in the Chicago audit practice, Katie completed a short-term rotation in the firm’s Audit Risk Management group, which is responsible for the firm’s internal inspection program, regulatory inspections and root cause evaluation program.  She also spent two years working for a Chicago based Fortune 500 public company in internal audit. 

Professional qualifications and memberships

  • Certified Public Accountant, Illinois
  • Member, American Institute Certified Public Accountants

Community involvement

  • Accounting Advisory Board, Executive Committee – Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
  • Public Accountant Registration and Licensure Committee - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Services

  • Audit & Assurance Services

 

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