Natalya has been working in public accounting for over twenty years. She provides forensic, valuation, litigation, and tax services across various industries. Natalya has testified on a variety of valuation and litigation matters. She is a current member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Valuation Services Committee. As an AICPA member, Natalya is helping edit the AICPA’s Business Valuations for Gift and Estate Tax Practice Aid and working on the AICPA’s scenario task force. Natalya continues her engagement as a speaker/presenter on valuation-related topics at the AICPA & CIMA Forensic & Valuation Services Annual Conference for the second year in a row. Recently, she worked with the U.S. Department of Labor to help inform AICPA constituents about ESOP valuation matters.

Natalya’s areas of expertise include personal injury & wrongful death calculations, wrongful termination calculations, ESOP litigation, class action lawsuit award allocations, shareholder disputes and minority shareholder oppression review, prejudgment interest calculations, lost profits analyses, matrimonial valuation, and litigation including child support calculations, wage underpayment calculations, embezzlement-related calculations, present value of retirement plan calculations, gift & estate tax-related valuations, shareholder buy-out planning and valuations, and review of buy-sell agreements. Natalya also works with a variety of tax clients.

Kim Pearce, CPA, joined BDM in 2020. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and migrated North to the Flathead Valley with her family at eight years old. Kim graduated with degrees in accounting and finance at the University of Montana in 2013. After a few years of working in industry, she discovered a passion for public accounting. Kim came to BDM with five years of business and individual tax preparation experience.  When Kim is not preparing tax returns, you can find her outside satisfying her sense of adventure. Some of these adventures include running trail ultra-marathons, spending time at her cabin near Glacier National Park with her husband and dog, and playing soccer. Kim also serves as the Treasurer on Missoula Strikers Board of Directors.

Bryn Metcalfe, CPA is a proud graduate of the University of Montana, where she received her bachelor’s in accounting in 2016 and her Masters in Accountancy in 2017. Raised in Missoula, Bryn began her career in public accounting in Portland, OR, before returning to her hometown in 2019 to join BDM. She specializes in individual and small business taxation. When not in the office, Bryn enjoys spending her free time kayaking, hiking, reading and cheering on the Griz with her husband and son.

Shannon Hicks received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The University of Montana and has been practicing in Missoula since 2010; joining our team at Boyle, Deveny & Meyer, P.C. in 2017 and becoming a partner at the beginning of 2023. His experience covers business and individual taxation, financial statement preparation, business management and acquisition, estate planning, and consulting. Outside of the office you may run into Shannon and his family on the river, on the trail, at kids’ events, or enjoying his strict fitness regime of beer and ice cream.

Our dear friend and partner, Nancy Harrington CPA MBA, passed away tragically in a canoeing accident in January 2008. Her staff, clients and friends will miss her expertise, patience and kindness. She joined the firm in 1986. She grew up in California and graduated in history from Smith College, Massachusetts in 1967. After raising black sheep in Florence, MT, Nancy became a CPA in 1982 and received her MBA from the University of Montana in 1984. She worked with many non-profits and has served on the boards of Intermountain Planned Parenthood, Missoula Food Bank and Child Care Resources. We will never forget her.