Donna McCarthy, CPA
Donna graduated from Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. She is a Certified Public Accountant in New Jersey and has worked in public accounting since January of 1989. She has worked in a few firms as an employee and partner and now a founding partner of the Firm of McCarthy and DeLuca, LLP.
She is a Certified QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor and specializes in setup and training of staff to use and operate QuickBooks to best suit each business.
With extensive experience in tax preparation for individuals as well as tax preparation and consulting for many business clients including restaurants, construction, retail, personal services and law offices. Donna maintains trust accounts for attorneys and is well versed in NJ Bar Association rules.
Other Associations:
- Member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants-Monmouth/Ocean Chapter.
- Member of Manasquan Chamber of Commerce
- Trustee of the East Dover First Aid Squad in Toms River, NJ for 15 years and a member since 1982. Serving many operational positions as an EMT until 2003.
- Treasurer of the Island Heights Methodist Church and a member of their finance committee for the past 15 years.
Raymond De Luca, Jr, CPA
Ray graduated from Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Jersey and has worked in public accounting since 1988. Ray worked at numerous positions in banking at Ocean Federal Savings & Loan (Ocean First Bank) from 1976-1988 then went into Public Accounting. He has been working in Public Accounting since that time and is now a founding partner in the Firm of McCarthy and DeLuca, LLP.
Ray is experienced in tax preparation for individuals, estates and business clients including restaurants, construction, chiropractic practices as well as other types of business accounting.
Other Associations:
- Member of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants-Monmouth/Ocean Chapter
- Member of the Point Pleasant Beach Chamber of Commerce
- Member of the Manasquan Chamber of Commerce
Tressa Struble
Accounting Assistant/Office Manager
Tressa graduated from The Stuart School of Business and Accounting, Tressa was our first office hire in 1997. Tressa is highly proficient in Quickbooks Desktop and Online, Microsoft Office and Xetex.
She is well versed in all aspects of running an organized and professional, yet comfortable office. Tressa is available to provide our clients with bookkeeping and payroll and sales tax services in our office or yours along with advising or training in QuickBooks Desktop or QuickBooks Online.
Tressa is always happy to assist our clients with any questions.
Ellie Mapelli
Accounting Clerk/Tax Preparer
Ellie joined our firm in 2003. She graduated from The University SBBV with a degree in Economics in Brazil and Associates in Accounting at College of Southern Nevada.
She is highly organized with a unique blend of professional accounting, tax and bookkeeping skills. Ellie is multilingual speaking English, Spanish and Brazilian/Portuguese.
Ellie is currently pursuing her full accounting degree while working for us doing bookkeeping, tax preparation and accounting projects.
