**Helene Tillotson, CPA, for one-to-one tutoring in the south bay area**
Helene is the CPA exam tutor for pvtutor.com. One could not ask for a better credentialed person to tutor the CPA exam.....she has written over 300 questions for the AICPA (the company that makes the CPA exams) for the last 6 years. Her explanation and motivation skills are also great.
Her inspiring story is in the second half of this page....the first half will contain her credentials and other relevent info about her tutoring approach.
*Tutoring experience*
- CSUDH peer tutor 1996-1997 (accounting and math).
- private accounting tutor from 1998 to 2002.
- "Professional Tutors of America" employee: 2001-2002.
*Teaching experience*
- Helene has been a full time professor on both the accounting and math faculties at Marymount College from 2002 to the present.
*CPA & education misc*
- Passed all 4 parts of the CPA exam in November of 1997.
- CPA certified in 1998
- Member AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)...1998
- Paid to write questions for the CPA exam....as of this writing she has written over 300 questions for the AICPA between 2000 and 2006.
- Graduated magna cum laude (3.8 GPA) from CSUDH with a bachelors degree in Business Administration (accounting concentration) in 1997.
- Got her MBA from CSUDH in 2000.
- Selected Student of the year at CSUDH by the Institute of management accountants (1996)
- Member of Delta Mu Delta (National Honor society for busines administration (1995))
- Spring 2006: taught "Introduction to accounting 2" from spring 2004 to present. This class essenitally focuses on subjects which will be on the CPA exam.
In Helene's own words....
"I was born in a lower middleclass neighborhood in the Bronx, New York in 1950. I did not have the opportunity to go to college when I was young because my father was diagnosed with cancer, and I went to work doing data entry to help my mother pay the medical bills. In 1973 I married, and for the next fifteen years I was a housewife and mother. When my husband and I divorced in 1989, I went to look for work and found that I had no marketable job skills. At age 42, I knew that it was time for me to do what I never had the chance to do when I was younger; it was time for me to go to college.
I started at El Camino Community College in Torrance California, and transferred to California State University Dominguez Hills were I received my BS in Business Administration with accounting concentration in May 1997, graduating Magna Cum Laude. I was very fortunate to have had a professor at CSUDH who really cared about me and all of his students, and who encouraged and motivated me to do great things. My professor convinced me that I could sit for and pass all four parts of the CPA exam and in November 1997 to my astonishment I did just that. It was my professor who made me realize what I wanted to do with the rest of my life; that was to teach, and to do it as well as he did.
I received my MBA degree (General Management concentration) from CSUDH in May of 2000 and today I am a full-time accounting instructor at Marymount College Palos Verdes. In my spare time I tutor students preparing for the CPA exam and for the past four years I have been a paid question writer writing over 300 multiple choice as well as essay questions which have been accepted by the AICPA which will appear on future exams.
In 1992, I had no college education, and today I’m an MBA/CPA assistant professor of accounting. I am a success story, and I want you as my students to know that if you work hard, you too can be a success story. As my professor told me, 'You will get out of your education what you put into it'. I will do my best to help you in any way I can."
To set up a lesson with Helene or for more info please contact Joseph
Phone: 310-720-0174
Email: Joey2276@aol.com
