Meet Michele Duvall, CPA a Tax Manager at Abeles & Hoffman. She joined the firm in 2012 and is responsible for supervisory duties, reviewing and preparing returns, and managing clients. Additionally, she assists with client audits and compilations and reviews prepared financial statements. Michele specializes in business tax preparation and foreign asset reporting. Michele graduated magna cum laude from Missouri State University in 2006 and in 2010 she earned her Master of Accounting from the University of Utah.

Michele lives in St. Louis with her spouse and her three children. The family enjoys traveling across the country to visit National Parks. Michele’s favorite activities include hiking, skiing, camping, and bike riding.

Get to Know Michele

If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?
Bake

What fictional place would you most like to visit?
Jurassic Park

What is a new skill that you would like to master?
Learn to speak Italian.

What do you wish you knew more about?
Astrophysics.  I am a space nerd.

What’s the farthest you’ve ever been from home?
I went to Italy and Switzerland

What question would you most like to know the answer to?
What came first, the chicken or the egg?

What is the most impressive thing you know how to do?
I can roll my tongue.

What was the best compliment you’ve ever received?
“You look like Sandra Bullock.”

What silly accomplishment are you most proud of?
I once beat 3 boys in a push-up contest.

What is your favorite smell?
Pine needles

When was the last time you climbed a tree?
A few years ago, which is too long.

What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten?
Cow tongue

What was your first job?
A lifeguard, I also taught water aerobics

If you could have any super power, what would it be?
The power to fly, although I don’t think I would go very high!