Industry & Services >> Analyst Interviews >> August 10, 2009
Ronald Cooper began his funeral home career at the age of 15, when he began
working part time for a funeral home in Northampton, Pa. Following his high
school graduation, Mr. Cooper served his apprenticeship at a funeral home in
Seminole, Fla. In 1983 he became the owner and operator of the Wilson-Cooper
Funeral Home in Kittery, Maine. Mr. Cooper began his career in public accounting
in 1979 with the then "Big Eight" accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co., leaving as a Senior Accountant to join Coopers & Lybrand in the firm's
Boston office. While operating the Wilson-Cooper Funeral Home, he managed the
Ronald H. Cooper, C.P.A., P.A., practice, which specialized in funeral home
accounting, taxes and operations. Mr. Cooper has successfully facilitated the
acquisition of over 50 funeral homes in the US and Canada. Profile
Mr. Cooper: I'm a CPA, and I initially did my training with Coopers & Lybrand. I
ended up in the Boston
