MARIA PEARMAN
Principal
GHJ
Maria Pearman, CPA, CGMA, serves as GHJ’s Beverage Practice leader. She is a food and beverage industry leader, shown leadership in the growing client accounting services space and has written two books on essential business principles for entrepreneurs in food and beverage.
Pearman’s accounting career started in an unexpected place — beginning with a career in arts management and radio before she realized her interests would be applicable to public accounting. After preparing tax returns for several breweries, she realized her clients spent more money getting their books clean at the end of the year than they spent on tax returns. Inspired by this need in the marketplace, she founded an accounting firm offering a wide range of outsourced accounting services for the beverage alcohol industry and expanded her expertise to comprise the larger food and beverage market. She has even authored two books on the subject.
