Bonnie Sirois

Bonnie Sirois /
Bonnie Sirois /

AGE:39
POSITION: Manager, Piccerelli, Gilstein & Co.
RESIDENCE: Fairhaven, Mass.
LIFELONG AMBITION: To write a book
FAVORITE BOOK: Too many to choose from
GUILTY PLEASURE: Traveling

Bonnie Sirois is an accountant, and quite accomplished in that field. But it is something she’s done outside of work, she says, that has inspired her more than anything else.
She lists the time she spent volunteering with the Great New Bedford Women’s Center as her most influential experience in her 40 Under Forty application, saying it “created a passion within me to educate those less fortunate than myself so that those individuals may take control over their own lives.”
“Now I enjoy mentoring entrepreneurial men and women to help them improve their lives and realize their dreams,” she wrote.
After working 10 years as a retail banking representative at Bank Boston – where she was responsible for originating personal and commercial deposit accounts – Sirois shifted gears and went into accounting. She started at Rosenfield, Holland & Raymon in New Bedford, then became a manager at Piccerelli, Gilstein & Co., where she has worked since 1999.
At the firm, she has been responsible for the overall management of audit, review, compilation and tax engagements, concentrating on closely held businesses and retirement plans. Her responsibilities include audit planning and risk assessment, and she has worked with an array of industries, including manufacturing, employee benefit plans, construction contractors, franchises, investment companies, start-up companies, mortgage lending institutions and retailers.
Other services she is responsible for include tax planning, tax projections, preparation of returns, business valuations and other business consulting items.
Outside of her professional life, she has remained active. Aside from her experience at the Greater New Bedford Women’s Center, where she was director from 1999 through 2004, she has served as treasurer for the TLC Play and Learn Campus, coached softball and been a guest lecturer for the Center for Women in Enterprise.
From 2003 to 2005, she taught a non-credit course for the Brown University Learning Community entitled Accounting for the Non-Financial Business Owner. There, she taught students to interpret financial statements and prepare case studies, and taught them how to make sense of basic financial ratios.

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