Peter Bell

Peter Bell currently heads his own consulting and training practice providing support for the audit and financial reporting needs of the affordable housing industry. In October 2005, he retired from the Federal Government after 35 years of experience as an auditor and financial manager with three different federal agencies. His most recent experience was as the Director of the Financial Assessment Subsystem for the Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In addition, he directed the Multifamily Housing Financial Assessment staff. Previous to that, he was the Director of both the Quality Assurance staff and the Public Housing Financial Assessment staff at REAC. Before joining REAC in July 1998, He was an audit manager with the Office of Inspector General for HUD, providing technical assistance on non-Federal audit issues. Prior to HUD, he was a member of the Office of Inspector General at both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education. Peter is a frequent trainer and discussion leader for numerous groups and State Societies and has appeared in several AICPA continuing professional education videos related to governmental accounting and auditing. He has developed comprehensive training programs to help the affordable housing industry understand HUD's compliance and reporting requirements, as well as its assessment process. Peter has a graduate degree in Public Administration from the George Washington University and a degree in Accounting from Mount St. Mary's College. He is a member of the AICPA, the Greater Washington Society of CPAs and the Association of Government Accountants. He is currently a member of the Planning Committee for the AICPA's Governmental and Not-for-Profit Training Conference.