abResources Associates

William R. Skoglund, CPA

Bill Skoglund has recently joined the ab Resources, Inc. staff as liaison to the firm's many strategic alliances with CPAs and Attorneys. Bill is a CPA and has specialized in income and estate tax planning for high net worth individuals and closely held family businesses for the past forty years. In the course of that time Bill has worked on estate planning strategies for individuals with net worths ranging from $10 million to $1 billion. He was the principal tax advisor to W. Clement Stone and his family from 1972 to Mrs. Stone’s death in 2004 and worked closely with Mr. Stone’s family office and internal staff of advisors during that period. He has had significant experience with charitable private foundations, split interest trusts, qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans, administration of trusts and estates, Internal Revenue Service audits, letter rulings, and a variety of other tax related matters. During this time Bill has worked closely with CPAs and Attorneys in developing the most effective income and estate tax strategies available.

Bill graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in accounting and history. He played football for the Irish and was a member of the 1966 National Championship Team. He graduated from Fenwick High School and was awarded the Tony Lawless Outstanding Scholar Athlete Award in his senior year. Bill started his career as a tax specialist with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. in Chicago and worked for seven years with a local bank group as a trust officer while building his CPA practice. Bill is married and has seven children and eight grandchildren.