Participating groups included Disregarded Entity, Industry Audit
Guys, Terminal Liability, and the University of Washington’s Beta
Alpha Psi band, Facial Depreciation, which wowed the crowd with its
songs “House of GAAP” and “We Will Audit You” (sung to the tune of
Queen’s “We Will Rock You”).
After almost 200 attendees cast their votes, the Accounting
Crows, from the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants’
Bellevue chapter, took top honors. The winning band is composed of
Pete Miller, CPA, CFE; Malcolm Edwards, CPA; Doug Cruickshank, CPA,
J.D.; and Mike Monroe, CPA, ABV, who were all employees of Bellevue
firm Clark Nuber P.S. during the May 19 event (for the evening, the
group received permission to use the stage name of West Hartford,
Conn.-based CPA band the Accounting Crows, who, according to Edwards,
“have been out of the garage for some time”).
The event, sponsored by the South King County Chapter of the WSCPA, raised $2,000 for the accounting departments of the Des Moines, Wash., campuses of Highline Community College and Central Washington University.
—Tom Byrne, CPA
