Steven L. Berse, CPA
Partner

Steven L. Berse, CPA, is a Partner at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP. He provides audit, accounting and business consulting services to closely held businesses and partnerships. He specializes in the areas of broker dealers, investment partnerships, broadcasting and professional services firms. Mr. Berse leads the Financial Services industry practice for the firm.

He also has a matrimonial practice in which he performs lifestyle analysis and determines the parties’ respective net worth, including required forensics. He is often asked to provide due diligence services by his entrepreneurial business clients in connection with proposed mergers and acquisitions and by investment partnerships in connection with contemplated investments.

Mr. Berse has been with Marks Paneth & Shron or its predecessor firms since 1980. He began his career by joining a small, local firm that soon combined with Paneth Haber and Zimmerman, one of the predecessor firms of today’s Marks Paneth & Shron.

Mr. Berse is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA), where he is a past chairman of the Committee on Sales, Exchanges and Basis. Additionally, he has authored tax articles for the CPA Journal, a publication of the NYSSCPA, and has served as a contributing editor of that publication. He has also been a panelist and speaker at the NYSSCPA's tax plenary sessions.

Steven Berse holds a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Queens College of the City University of New York. He is licensed to practice in New York and he is based in Marks Paneth & Shron’s New York City headquarters. Mr. Berse resides in Hauppauge, Long Island.

Queens College, City University of New York
Bachelor of Arts
Major: Accounting

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants