Barbara S. Pocalyko

Barbara S. Pocalyko
CPA PLC


Professional Experience

Ms. Pocalyko is a practicing Certified Public Accountant and Principal of her own accounting firm, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Fairfax County, Virginia. Her practice serves both businesses and individual clients. Ms. Pocalyko’s tax and corporate accounting practice specializes in individual taxation (tax preparation, tax planning, tax minimization strategies, personal finance, and investments); the high-technology corporations of northern Virginia’s service economy; marital dissolution accounting; individual taxation issues relating to military and federal government employment; and international taxation.


Professional History

Before founding her accounting practice, Ms. Pocalyko was the staff CPA for Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia; a university-level accounting instructor for undergraduate and MBA students at New Hampshire College’s overseas campus; director of finance and accounting for the federal school system in Puerto Rico; comptroller of a printing company; staff accountant at a tax firm; and a corporate internal auditor for the Prudential Insurance Company of America.


Education

  • Muhlenberg College, AB, cum laude, 1976

  • Licensed CPA, Virginia and Florida
  • Boards

  • Appointed to the Commonwealth of Virginia Board of Accountancy (2000) by the Governor, Chair (2003-2004)

  • Network of Entrepreneurial Women, past Board Member
  • Memberships

  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

  • Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants

  • Founding Member, Study Group of Northern Virginia Women Certified Public Accountants

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