Alicia Orejel is a Certified Public Accountant with almost three decades in public accounting.  Alicia’s area of expertise includes individual and business taxation, estate, and trust taxation, representation in front of taxing agencies, business advisory services, as well as performing financial statement audits, reviews, compilations, and business and trust accounting services.   Alicia has served the following industries:  Small Business, Healthcare, Professional Services, Not-for-Profits Organizations, Governmental, Real Estate, Agriculture, Construction, and Manufacturing.

Alicia worked as an Adjunct Professor of Taxation at California State University San Bernardino for six years.  She lectured for individual and business tax courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Alicia began her career at B.R. Sharp and Company in Riverside, which later merged and demerged into various CPA firms.  Alicia eventually became a partner at one of the successor firms before going off on her own to become the first Latina in Riverside to start her own CPA firm.  She eventually merged her practice with Christenson & De Good and the firm was renamed Christenson Orejel Associates, LLP.  Alicia is the most experienced Latina CPA in the Inland Empire.

Education

• California State University San Bernardino, MBA, Taxation
• California State University San Bernardino, BS, Accounting
• Licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of California
• Accredited Estate Planner®
• Continuing Education Courses through the AICPA and CALCPA

Professional Affiliations and Community Activities

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants – Member
• California Society of Certified Public Accountants – Member
• ProVisors – Trusted Advisors Group – Member
• Estate Planning Council of Riverside County, Treasurer
• Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association, Treasurer
• Altura Credit Union Supervisory Committee (former)
• California State University San Bernardino Accounting Advisory Board
• University of California Riverside Planned Giving Advisory Board (former)
• Greater Riverside Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Treasurer (former)
• Former Treasurer for various non-profit organizations