Continuing Professional Faculty
Accounting
About
Tiffany Rasmussen is a retired professional faculty at Berkeley Haas. Her courses include Introduction to Financial Accounting, Intermediate and Advanced Accounting, Auditing, and Ethics.
Rasmussen was an auditor with KPMG LLP for over 26 years, 15 of those as a partner. She is a highly skilled CPA (now retired) with a proven track record as a business advisor and team leader serving a variety of complex, multi-location, public companies (Fortune 1000) and private entities (including start-ups and IPOs) in the consumer products, high tech, clean tech, government, higher education, not-for-profit, and financial services industries. Rasmussen is a team builder who regularly manages multiple complex projects, has strong communication skills, and is a problem solver with a continuous improvement focus. She held several positions within KPMG that provided the opportunity for operational and financial oversight, in addition to her client service role.
Continuing her client service, Rasmussen is currently an independent consultant and provides support to CEOs, CFOs, controllers, internal audit directors and audit committees of public companies related to external and internal auditing, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, accounting, and financial reporting.
Rasmussen’s cumulative experience with UC Berkeley, KPMG LLP, independent consulting, her not-for-profit board service, and her personal interest in world travel and various cultures has developed a strong leader with the core values of cooperation, communication, continuous learning, and service to her global community.
- Rasmussen, Tiffany (2024). Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Reporting in the US: How to Prepare and Communicate Evolving Requirements. Berkeley Haas Case Series.
- Rasmussen, Tiffany (2021). Using Data Analytics and Visualization in Accounting and Auditing at Toby Biotech Inc. Berkeley Haas Case Series.
At Haas since 2011
- 2024-Present, Lecturer, Berkeley Executive Education
- 2018-2025, Continuing Lecturer (retired), Haas School of Business
- 2011-2018, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
- 2013-present, Independent Consultant
- 1986-2013, Partner, KPMG LLP
California Certified Public Accountant (Retired)
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- Berkeley ExecEd – Governance, Risks and Compliance: Internal Audit Excellence
- Berkeley ExecEd – Accounting and Tax: Financial Statement Analysis and Investigative Tools and Techniques
- Berkeley ExecEd – Internal Audit Simulation
- UGBA 102A Introduction to Financial Accounting
- UGBA 120AA Intermediate Accounting, Part 1
- UGBA 120AB Intermediate Accounting, Part 2
- UGBA 120B Advanced Accounting
- UGBA 126 Auditing
- UGBA 127 Ethics in Accounting
- MBA 223 Corporate Financial Reporting
- MFE 230W Accounting and Taxation of Derivatives