Faculty

• Mary C. Danylak, CPA
  • Mary C. Danylak CPA is a senior technical editor of PPC products for the Tax & Accounting Division of Thomson Reuters. She is a contributing editor for PPC’s 1120 Deskbook, PPC’s Tax Planning Guide Closely Held Corporations, PPC’s Guide to Buying or Selling a Business and PPC’s Guide to Buy/Sell Agreements. Ms. Danylak has more than 20 years of tax practice experience. Prior to joining PPC, Mary was Director of Taxes and managed the in-house tax function for a publicly held real estate investment trust. Her background also includes 11 years with national accounting firms and six years with closely held companies. Her experience in both public accounting and industry has allowed her to acquire technical and practical experience in a variety of tax areas including corporate, partnership, and REITs.
• C. Clinton Davis, CPA, JD

  • C. Clinton Davis, CPA, JD, is a partner in the Dallas, Texas law firm of Krage & Janvey, LLP.  He is a frequent presenter at continuing education programs for both accountants and lawyers, including not-for-profit organizations, partnership and real estate planning. He is the author of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) courses, Fundamentals of LLC and Partnership Taxation, and Tax Planning for Real Estate and Small Business.  Clint is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He represents numerous pass-through and charitable entities. Clint has served as program chair or presenter on several ACPEN programs in the areas of tax, not-for profit and business entities.

• Craig Headlee, CPA
  • Craig Headlee, CPA, Sole Proprietor of the firm Craig W. Headlee, CPA since 1993. His firm provides accounting services for several closely held businesses in the Dallas area whose annual revenues range between $ 1,000,000 - $ 10,000,000. He prepares approximately 280 tax returns each year, which includes corporate, partnership, individual and trust clients. Tax planning and consulting services are also offered by Craig’s firm. Most business clients consist of service businesses, including law firms, sales representative firms and custom manufacturing. His prior related experience includes over seven years working in the income tax software development and processing industry as a Senior Tax Accountant. He has been a CPA since 1986.
• Dan Snyder, JD, CPA
  • Dan Snyder JD, CPA, is a principal in the firm of Dan Snyder & Associates, Inc., in Gainesville, Texas. Prior to this, he was the Manager of International Tax for Weaver, LLP, in Fort Worth, Texas. Dan has more than 30 years of tax and legal experience with 25 years in international tax, including corporate and individual issues. His practice emphasizes global restructuring and refinancing strategies; cross-border transactional planning and management; strategic re-sourcing of income and expenses; maximizing export tax incentives; expatriate income, gift and estate tax planning; and IRS audit controversy services . In addition, previously, Dan was the Chairman of the International Tax Committee of a global accounting firm. Among his professional memberships, Dan is a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) and of the Chartered Institute of Taxation
• Leslie Haines, CPA
  • Leslie Haines, CPA, specializes in real estate and partnership taxation, and also serves businesses and high net-worth individuals involved in a variety of industries and professions. Leslie’s practice is located in Dallas, Texas. Leslie has over 10 years experience in public accounting. She has significant tax planning and compliance experience for affiliated groups and business owners, pass-through and disregarded entities, complex partnership tax matters, accounting methods and tax research and planning for acquisitions and divestitures, troubled debt workouts and other financing transactions. Prior to this, she was a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at Lacerte/Intuit Software, In addition, Leslie served as a Tax Senior at Kenneth Levanthal/Ernst & Young and before this at Arthur Anderson.
• Rick Christiansen, CPA, Principal, LarsonAllen, LLP
  • Rick Christiansen, CPA, is a principal in the accounting firm of LarsonAllen, LLP. He specializes in the firm's tax group with expertise in the agribusiness industry and over 30 years experience in public accounting. Most of those years were with the Biebl Ranweiler firm, in New Ulm, Minnesota, well known for its leadership in ag taxation. Rick has taught continuing education classes to CPAs and spoken at national agribusiness conferences on farm taxation issues. He is a contributing author for the Farm Tax Network. Rick has also authored PPC's Guide to Starting or Expanding a Business, and contributed to several tax publications for the American Institute of CPAs and Practitioner’s Publishing Company.