Expertise
Professor Sherman teaches regularly for several state societies of CPAs and for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a major developer of education courses marketed to state CPA societies and other national organizations. Mr. Sherman has developed programs on controllership and finance for the non-financial manager. which have been presented to the Smaller Business Association of New England and programs on planning and budgeting, building relations with debt and equity partners, and the business plan for AICPA. He also developed Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers for the American Management Association.
Selected Presentations
Mr. Sherman gives annual professional education presentations to many organizations and companies, which recently include Perdue Farms, EMC, Partners Healthcare, and Manulife Financial.
Industry and Academic Experience
Prior to joining the Finance faculty at the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University, Mr. Sherman has been involved with a number of non-profit organizations. He was Chief Financial Officer of Chelsea Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.; Treasurer and Director of Chelsea Human Services Collaborative and of New England Light Opera. Mr. Sherman has been a Partner and CFO of Venture Builders, an advisory firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses. He is the principal of his own consulting firm, which provides strategic and operational planning assistance, and financial management guidance to a number of smaller, growing businesses.
Mr. Sherman was CFO of a building products manufacturer and previously of a shoe parts manufacturing company. He has also been controller of two successful textile manufacturers. Mr. Sherman has more than twenty-five years of financial management experience in executive positions at several manufacturing and service companies. He has worked for businesses from very small to Fortune 50 companies, from private to publicly held, from domestic to multi-national to foreign-owned. For twenty-five years, until 1997, he served on the Board of Directors of a NASDAQ traded foam plastics fabricator.
Professional Services
Mr. Sherman is a member of several professional organizations, including AICPA, Massachusetts Society of CPAs, Rhode Island Society of CPAs, and Financial Executives International.
Mailing Address
Eliot Sherman
412 Hayden Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5000