About Us | Sharon R. O'Halloran

Our Philosophy

What really makes us different at Sharon R. O'Halloran, C.P.A. Inc., is that we strongly believe in the importance of knowing and understanding our clients and their operations. The option to work on location at our client's place of business allows us to gain a better understanding of their operation; enabling us to provide greater value.

Our firm's approach is to build and maintain solid business relationships with every client. We work with them, providing timely and useful information for decision making and most of all finding the programs and information needed for them to achieve all of their financial and business goals.

Sharon R. O'Halloran

Sharon R. O'Halloran , CPA, CGA - President graduated from CGA Canada in 1994, and opened a professional accounting office in the same year.

Sharon’s education includes a University degree with a major concentration in finance and accounting, and a Certified General Accounting designation. As well, Sharon received her Chartered Professional Accounting Designation April 1, 2015.

Sharon and her staff are committed to extensive professional development and are always looking for new ways to serve clients.

Sharon has been in the professional accounting industry for 30 years in Prince Edward Island; working with many profit companies, charities, not-for-profit organizations as well as corporate and personal clients. Sharon and her team are devoted to “empowering their clients’ success”.

Meet our team

Sherrie MacDougall

Sherrie graduated from Dalhousie Univerisity in 1995 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in accounting. She received her CGA designation in 2000, and received her CPA designation in 2015. She has been in public practice since graduating from university in 1995, and has been an excellent asset to our firm since joining us in January, 2020.

Benjamin Noall

Ben originally from the UK, graduated in 2004 with a degree in Business Administration from the University of Portsmouth, and has a diploma in advanced management accounting. He has worked in the accounting field for nearly 10 years and is currently working towards his professional designation. Ben has been working with our firm since 2010.

Dawn Desroches

Dawn has been with our firm since the beginning of 2019. She graduated from the Granton Institute of Technology in Ontario with a diploma in Bookkeeping as well as Accounting. Dawn's primary rolls are a Bookkeeper as well as a tax preparer.

Kara O'Halloran

Kara graduated from Holland College in 2011 with a diploma in Marketing and Advertising, and in 2013 from UPEI with degrees in both Philosophy and English. She has been working with our firm since 2017 and works primarily in the Summerside location during tax season aiding in T1 preparation. She is also responsible for Social Media and Advertising.

Lex Arsenault

Lex Arsenault began working with our firm as the Executive Administrative Assistant in February of 2020. She is always learning new things and appreciates the opportunity to build new relationships with the lovely clients the firm works with. She graduated from Holland College: Summerside Campus as a Legal Administrative Assistant and in the future, she hopes to further her education and knowledge in Estate Planning.

Wendy Corkum

Wendy joined our firm as a bookkeeper on January 2, 2020. Wendy graduated from Three Oaks Senior High School and completed her Post Secondary education in the bookkeeping program at Holland College. She brings with her several years of experience in bookkeeping and office administration. Her experience includes working in private industry as a bookkeeper/office manager, contract work with the public school system in office administration and in recent years doing bookkeeping for several businesses at Corkum Professional Accounting and Tax.

Christina Boyle

Christina moved to the Island from Ontario near the end of 2021. She joined the firm as an Administrative Assistant in September of 2022. Her duties have expanded to include bookkeeping and basic personal tax returns. Christina thoroughly enjoys meeting new people as she has a strong background in customer service. She hopes to continue to learn more about bookkeeping and tax returns.

Bruce Ramsay

Bruce joined our firm as an Executive Administrative Assistant in February of 2024. He graduated from Legal Administration in 2019, at the Summerside Holland College. Bruce brings 15 years of customer service experience, and several years of office administration experience. Bruce is a highly organized and detail-oriented professional and hopes to further his education in the accounting industry.