About Caron & Bletzer, PLLC
An Accounting Firm Specializing in Employee Benefit Plan Audits
Caron & Bletzer, PLLC specializes in employee benefit plan audits and consulting in the ERISA area. The firm has concentrated its practice in ERISA since its founding in 1993. The firm provides services to ERISA clients throughout the country with our base concentrated in the Northeast.
We have one of the largest employee benefit plan audit practices in the country, based on figures released by the U.S Department of Labor (DOL). We are one of only a few firms nationally that concentrate their audit practice on employee benefit plans.
Caron & Bletzer is a member of the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center (EBPAQC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). We are also members of the AICPA's Center for Audit Quality (serving investors, public company auditors, and the markets), and Private Company Practice Section and Tax Section.
In addition to employee benefit plan audits, the firm is available to provide limited other accounting and auditing services, and offers robust tax planning and compliance services for individuals and businesses.
As a firm, we are committed to quality. Our goal is to excel in the delivery of services within our specialty area. We undergo peer review by another EBPAQC member firm on a regular basis to ensure that our accounting and auditing practice meets all professional standards. We have received an unqualified opinion with no letter of comments for each peer review conducted since our inception. We are subject to review by the PCAOB for the services we provide to employee benefit plans that file Form 11K with the SEC. In 2010, C&B received a clean inspection report from the PCAOB with no comments. We are proud of this tangible evidence that our pursuit of excellence has paid off.
Partner Profiles
Caron & Bletzer, PLLC – Benefit Plan Specialists
Catherine E. Caron
Catherine (Katie) E. Caron founded the firm in 1993. She holds CPA certificates in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut, and earned a Master of Science in Taxation from Bentley College. She has extensive experience in the employee benefits area and in tax planning and compliance, as well as general business advising in many industries. Prior to founding the firm, she was a tax specialist with Coopers & Lybrand, LLP (now PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP).
Katie is a current member of the Northeast Pension Liaison Group, an invitation-only group of government officials and pension industry representatives that meets quarterly in New York to discuss and help formulate employee benefit pension plan policy. She is also a past member of the New Hampshire Society of CPA's Board of Directors and past chairperson of the Society's Tax Committee. She continues to be an active member of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts CPA societies, as well as the AICPA. Katie currently sits on the Finance Committee and the Planned Giving Committee of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation.
John C. Bletzer
John C. Bletzer is the partner in charge of the Employee Benefit Assurance Practice and Quality Control for the firm. He is a licensed CPA in all six New England states, New York, New Jersey, Washington, DC, and several mid-Atlantic states. For more than a decade, he has concentrated his practice on the audits of employee benefit plans. John joined the firm in 1999 after several years in private industry, prior to which he was an audit manager at Coopers & Lybrand, LLP. His focus there was on higher education and middle-market businesses, both public and private, with a concentration in manufacturing, retail and high technology. John is a member of the AICPA and the New Hampshire Society of CPAs.
Jeff J. Polchlopek
Jeff J. Polchlopek joined the firm in 2000 with a primary focus on employee benefit plan audits. His practice has a particular emphasis in the areas of 11K filings, defined benefit pension plans, multiple employer plans and employee stock ownership plan audits. Prior to joining the firm, Jeff spent four years in private industry. His focus while in the private sector was in the retirement industry, working at Scudder Kemper Investments. Jeff holds a CPA certificate in New Hampshire and is a member of the AICPA and the New Hampshire and Massachusetts CPA societies. He is very active in local youth sports as a coach.
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