About Us

Rupp Consulting provides financial reporting and accounting advisory services in relation to capital markets transactions, restatements as well as day to day business activities. These services include technical accounting assistance and advice, financial reporting assistance and advice, and project management services. See the services page for more details on the different types of services offered.

Brett Rupp, Managing Director

Brett Rupp is the founder and Managing Director of Rupp Consulting LLC. He is also the primary consultant delivering services to clients. Brett has over 20 years of experience in financial reporting and accounting in both public and corporate accounting. Public accounting experience included IPOs, divestitures, acquisitions, mergers, restatements, adoption of new accounting standards, accounting advisory services for complex transactions, IFRS and US GAAP conversions, as well as debt and equity offerings. Corporate accounting responsibilities included SEC reporting, technical accounting, treasury activities, direct and indirect taxes, budgeting, forecasting, capital management, cost management, and SOX controls. He has significant experience both internationally and within the United States, which is described in the next section.

Experience

Rupp Consulting LLC 2016 - Present

Managing Director

Primary consultant providing technical accounting and financial reporting consulting along with project management services on specialized transactions and events including IPOs, divestiture carve-outs, mergers, acquisitions, restatements, adoption of new accounting standards, accounting advisory for complex areas, GAAP conversions (IFRS & US GAAP), and debt and equity offerings. Recent projects include:

SPAC merger target carve-out financial statements
ASC 842 Adoption - private consumer products
Accounting advisory services - automotive products
ASC 842 Adoption - automotive products
Accounting advisory services - consumer products
IFRS 15 New Accounting Standard - automotive products
Financial Reporting Assistance - retail / private equity
ASC 606 New Accounting Standard - material handling
ASC 842 New Accounting Standard - consumer products
ASC 606 New Accounting Standard - consumer products
IPO - consumer products / private equity

Caterpiller Inc. Jul 2011 - Sept 2015

Senior Business Resource Manager

Dec 2014 - Sep 2015 Mossville, IL

Aug 2012 - Dec 2014 Piracicaba, Brazil

Jul 2011 - Aug 2012 Peoria, IL

Over 4 years of corporate accounting experience both foreign and domestic. Spent over 1 year responsible for technical accounting and SEC reporting group at a time when the Company completed its largest acquisition (Bucyrus) in the history of CAT as well as the largest divestiture (CAT Logistics). Spent over 2 years in Brazil as CFO for a business with ~$2 to $3 billion revenue touching almost all products and business segments in CAT where he was responsible for numerous areas including accounting (IFRS & US GAAP), tax, treasury, controls, budgeting, forecasting and cost analysis. Spent ~ 1 year as CFO for Industrial Power Systems Division with between $5-$6 billion revenue with operations in North America, Europe and Asia.

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Jan 1997 - Jul 2011

Director, PwC Transaction Services

Aug 2005 - Jul 2011 Chicago, IL USA

Dec 2004 - Aug 2005 St. Louis, MO USA

Oct 2002 - Dec 2004 London, United Kingdom

Oct 2000 - Oct 2002 Dusseldorf, Germany

Jan 1997 - Oct 2000 St. Louis, MO USA

Over 14 years of public accounting experience delivering accounting and financial reporting advice to both domestic and international clients covering a broad spectrum of areas including capital markets, accounting advisory, and GAAP conversions. Project experience includes +10 divestiture carve-outs, +15 GAAP conversions, +10 mergers and acquisitions, +5 debt offerings, multiple large scale restatements, IPOs and accounting advisory projects. Broad knowledge and experience with technical areas including business combinations, consolidations, leasing, derivatives, stock compensation, segment reporting, impairment, debt modification and SEC reporting.