College of Business and Economics featuring Harvey Bookstein
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Harvey BooksteinA $1 million donation from alumnus Harvey Bookstein will create the Harvey and Harriet Bookstein Chair in Taxation, the first endowed chair for the College of Business and Economics.

Harvey Bookstein has more than 30 years of public accounting experience and is a co-founding Partner of RBZ. Throughout his entire career, Harvey has provided tax, accounting and business consulting services to clients in the real estate industry, including land developers, residential and commercial builders, property managers, investors and commercial building owners. His clients also include real estate-related businesses, such as architectural firms, general contractors and construction companies. Harvey also works with high net worth individuals and their families, and family or other closely-held businesses. He also specializes in dealing with financial issues relating to children, divorce and the development of strategies to pass family businesses from one generation to the next - "Therapeutic Accounting®."

Harvey oversees a wide range of services, including entity selection and structuring, structuring and negotiating acquisitions and dispositions, pre-acquisition due diligence, debt restructuring, property repositioning strategies, foreign ownership, succession planning and tax-free exchanges. His goal is to anticipate his clients, needs, ask the right questions, and then develop meaningful ideas and solutions - solutions that enable his clients to maintain a competitive edge.

Beyond his commitment to his clients, Harvey currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Entrepreneurship Institute, The University Corporation of California State University, Northridge, and Students for a Better Tomorrow. He is the past President and Board Member of Los Angeles Telecommunications Commission, past Chairman of United Cerebral Palsy/Spastic Children's Foundation of Greater Los Angeles/Ventura and past Board Member of Hathaway Children's Services and Phoenix House.

Harvey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Harvey graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Harvey is also a graduate of Leadership Los Angeles. This endowment will also fund the Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation.