{"id":19880,"date":"2024-01-24T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=19880"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:53:06","slug":"joseph-rinaldi-2","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/profile\/joseph-rinaldi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Rinaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph Rinaldi<\/strong> is a Boston resident who has been teaching at Boston University since 2021. A life-long Bay Stater, he grew up in Western Massachusetts where he worked at his family\u2019s Italian restaurant. Mr. Rinaldi earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree, cum laude, with a dual concentration in Finance and Accounting from Bryant University in Rhode Island. He then earned a Master of Science in Accounting degree with a concentration in Taxation from Northeastern University in Boston. Rinaldi began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he worked in both their tax and audit divisions. Today, he is the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Partner of a Rinaldi Pease Companies LLC, a real estate development firm with properties and projects all across Massachusetts. Rinaldi is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA). A member of both the Massachusetts Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs, he has earned the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) designation. As a sole-practitioner, Joseph runs a full-service CPA firm, Rinaldi Financial, for his clients. Through his work in real estate, Rinaldi is licensed as a Realtor and Massachusetts Real Estate Broker, Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor (HIC), Massachusetts Notary, and a Massachusetts Justice of the Peace. He also founded and serves as President of The Rinaldi Foundation, Inc. which raises funds and makes grants to local charities focusing on homelessness and child poverty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><b>Accolades<\/b><\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Certified Public Accountant (CPA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Certified Financial Planner (CFP)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">AICPA Personal Financial Specialist (PFS)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Notary Public \/ Justice of the Peace (MA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Realtor \/ Licensed Real Estate Broker (MA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Member of Massachusetts Society of CPAs (MSCPA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Member of American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"SCXW86778667 BCX0\"> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86778667 BCX0\">Member of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board (GBREB)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW86778667 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Courses<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduate Financial &amp; Managerial Accounting<\/li>\n<li>Undergraduate Financial Accounting for the Hospitality Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23291,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26374,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/19880\/revisions\/26374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}