Xiaohua (Leah) Xu, CFA, CPA, currently serves as a Senior Manager in the Financial Accounting Advisory Service within Financial Services at EY, a position held since September 2013. Key areas of expertise include revenue recognition under ASC 606, investment accounting, digital asset accounting, lease accounting under ASC 842, CECL, SEC reporting, accounting policy, SOX implementation, broker-dealer regulatory reporting, and IPO readiness. Prior experience includes audit work in financial services focusing on banking and capital markets at EY and a teaching assistant role for Differential Equations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Xiaohua also completed a financial analyst internship at Medline Industries. Xiaohua holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earned in 2013.