Partner · Chief Compliance Officer

Eric Story, CPA, CITP, PFS

Eric carries fiduciary oversight of every Cooper Norman Wealth engagement. He sits at the intersection of tax strategy, wealth management, and the operating systems that hold them together.

Eric Story, CPA, CITP, PFS — Partner and Chief Compliance Officer at Cooper Norman Wealth in Idaho Falls.
Background

Twenty years of integrated tax-and-wealth thinking.

Eric came up through Cooper Norman's parent CPA platform — the side of the firm that has served closely-held Idaho business owners since 1976.

Eric Story is a Partner and the Chief Compliance Officer at Cooper Norman Wealth. He came up through Cooper Norman's parent CPA platform — the side of the firm that has served closely-held Idaho business owners since 1976 — and stepped into the wealth practice to lead the way tax strategy gets coordinated into long-term wealth decisions.

As Chief Compliance Officer, Eric carries fiduciary oversight of every Cooper Norman Wealth engagement. He sets the firm's investment policy framework, owns the compliance posture for client communications and recordkeeping, and is the named principal on the regulatory side of the house. Clients see that posture not as overhead, but as the quiet structure underneath every recommendation.

His credential set is uncommon: CPA, plus the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) credential — the AICPA's advanced financial-planning designation reserved for CPAs — plus the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) credential, which speaks to how the firm thinks about data, security, and the operating systems clients actually live inside.

Credentials & Focus

What Eric brings to the table.


Credentials

CPA · PFS · CITP

Certified Public Accountant. AICPA Personal Financial Specialist (the advanced financial-planning credential for CPAs). Certified Information Technology Professional.


Focus

Compliance & Fiduciary Oversight

Named principal on the regulatory side. Investment policy framework, communications, recordkeeping, and the firm's overall fiduciary posture.


Specialty

Tax-Integrated Wealth Strategy

Closely-held Idaho business owners contemplating exit, liquidity, estate restructuring, or generational transfer — coordinated with the Cooper Norman CPA platform.

Contact Eric

Reach Eric directly.

Most engagements start with a warm introduction from your existing Cooper Norman CPA. If you'd like to start the conversation directly, the lines below come to Eric.


“Compliance isn't paperwork. It's the structure that lets us tell a client the same thing in the eighth year that we told them in the first.”
Eric Story, CPA, CITP, PFS — Partner & CCO

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