Chris Scholtes

Chris is a Certified Public Accountant with over 23 years of experience in public accounting. He is President of C.E.A. Scholtes & Associates Certified Public Accountants (24 employees) specializing in servicing small, middle market and emerging businesses, international businesses and non-profit organizations. Chris has also assisted large public companies with complex and technical accounting issues and implementations of technical accounting pronouncements. Chris established his practice in September 2002.
The Firm has a concentrated approach on serving small to mid-sized nonprofit organizations. The practice is predominantly centered around providing many types of accounting services including – back office remote and on-site accounting, part time or interim CFO services, monthly closes and financial statement preparation and analysis, internal control audits, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, capital campaign accounting and reporting services, business plans, internal control reviews, accounting software implementations and training, FASB implementations, etc. In addition, the Firm performs audits, attest engagements such as reviews, compilations, agreed upon procedures and fraud investigations.

Chris began his career first at Arthur Andersen and Co., LLP in September 1993 where he serviced large public companies with SEC reporting requirements for almost three years. He then joined RSM McGladrey’s (formerly known as C.W. Amos & Company) Audit and Business Advisory Group where he spent almost five years and was promoted twice (first to Supervisor then to Manager). Chris then joined Stout, Causey & Horning where he regularly managed large and complex audit engagements for the Firm. Additionally, he was in charge of performing technical reviews for the partner group on deliverable products to clients.

Chris has extensive nonprofit volunteer service. He served ten years as the Treasurer of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Maryland Chapter. Subsequent to serving as interim CFO for the Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) (over 300 employees & over $35 million in portfolio assets) Chris was appointed to the Board of Directors of the MSB and was elected Treasurer. Chris served ten years as the Treasurer of MSB. Chris currently serves on the Finance Committees of the Immaculate Conception Parish in Towson, Maryland as well as on the Immaculate Conception School’s Board of Directors. Chris also serves as the Treasurer of the Homeland Community Foundation in Baltimore and on the Finance Committee of L’Hirondelle Club of Ruxton where he was recently appointed to the board of Governors. Chris is a member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants(MACPA).

Chris is a graduate of the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University – Baltimore, Maryland. While at Loyola, Chris served as President of a student accounting organization, received various honors and was selected by the faculty as a member of the 1993 Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Chris lives in Baltimore with his wife, Marta (also a CPA and Loyola University graduate and integral part of the practice) and their three children.