Elaine Read, CPA, CA

Elaine is a member of MNP’s Assurance and Accounting Services team in Waterloo. Elaine helps Canadian private companies and not-for-profit organizations navigate their financial reporting needs and achieve success.

Elaine makes complex concepts clear and easy to understand in her work with growing businesses (owner-managed, consumer, and manufacturing businesses) that have increasingly complex financial reporting requirements. Her services include audits, reviews, Notice to Readers, and accounting and internal control advisory services. 

She works with businesses in a variety of sectors, including manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, retail, real estate and construction, hospitality, and agriculture. She helps companies reporting under the Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Elaine also helps not-for-profit, charitable, and public sector organizations in health care and social services reporting under the accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations (ASNPO) or public sector accounting standards (PSAS).

Prior to joining MNP, Elaine was a partner at a Big Four firm, where she worked for more than two decades.

Elaine earned an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1996. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Licensed Public Accountant (LPA), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 1997.