Kym Mahler – CEO / Enrolled Agent
Areas of expertise: Certified QuickBooks® Pro Advisor, Enrolled Agent, roundup and rallying of the troops, typical head honcho type functions
Kym is the girl power of the company and our fearless leader. It’s hard to say where we would be without her vision and energy. She as a tenacious spirit when comes to getting the job done and getting it done right. She doesn’t just grab the bull by the horns; she bags and stuffs the whole thing.
She started out at a small business as a bookkeeping clerk and throughout the years she has matured into a full charge bookkeeper, staff accountant and business owner. Not the type to rest on her laurels, she is continually expanding her education. Kym is licensed by the Internal Revenue Service as an Enrolled Agent, but she’s never let that stop her from having a pleasurable personality.
Kym loves working with people and helping them with their accounting. She has assisted many with installation, training and support of their accounting systems and customizing QuickBooks® software to meet their particular requirements. If it weren’t for her there would be many clients out there still using a napkin or legal pad for their profit / loss statements. In her spare time Kym leads a 12 step recovery program for business owners who are still using Microsoft Excel to keep their books.
Kym also continually supports her clients, both individuals and businesses, with quality, up-to-date tax return preparation and advice. She reads IRS speak and then communicates back in English, which is a great blessing to her clients. She is continually educating herself on current tax laws throughout the year to minimize corporate and individual tax liabilities.
What would we do without Kym? Although it’s hard to imagine; the closest thing might be what took place right after the tower of Babel incident.
Kym is lovingly known in the office as the “Commander in Chief”.
E-mail: kym@bookkeepingmakesmesick.com Phone: (321) 473-7211
Jay McDowell – Tax Professional / Bookkeeper
Areas of expertise: Client relations, client service, tax preparation, bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks®
Smart, proactive, compassionate; best describe Jay. Blessed with an internal compass and a gut instinct that is nearly always dead on, Jay has the rare ability to provide guidance without being overbearing.
He will do anything asked of him and have a smile while doing it. To say that he’s a bright guy would be an injustice. We have reason to believe he could be nuclear physicist when he’s not at the office, and he’s just not telling us.
Jay is a very detailed oriented guy and proficient at helping clients stay organized with their business expenses and profits. He is a fantastic communicator and helps keep clients up to date and compliant with their payroll taxes and sales tax filings and could probably quote a little philosophy at the same time.
Jay enjoys working with clients on their personal and small business taxes. He is well versed in the area of tax return preparation and filing and has experience as a manager for two Liberty Tax offices. We can’t say how we secured his services because of course we would have to kill you.
Simply put Jay gets it, and we’re so glad he does.
Jay is referred to as the “Chief Bean Counter” around the office.
E-mail: admin@bookkeepingmakesmesick.com Phone: (321) 473-7211
Lowell Mahler – Marketing / IT / Internet
Areas of expertise: Marketing, internet, computer networking and security
Lowell handles the marketing, IT and internet face of the company. He labors behind the scenes, where he never sees the light of day, working on all areas of tech stuff and marketing. Witty and personable, most people would never believe that he could spend so much time with a computer and still be such a wonderful conversationalist. We really don’t understand what he does, but he does it well so we leave him alone.
Not afraid to be a problem solver with his lateral thinking skills, Lowell stays on top of all the trends in technology. We are certain that he is a computer genius, though he’d never admit it. A true people person, we consider it a privilege to be able to work alongside him. When the tension gets high around the office, Lowell will come up with something on the fly that leaves us rolling in laughter.
Lowell has a knack for networking and developing new business contacts, but he tends to work so intensely we fear that he doesn’t take a break for lunch nearly often enough. He will surely find his way into the Guinness Book of World Records for most cups of coffee consumed in one work day.
We’re not quite sure how someone so light hearted and humorous teamed up with a couple of book nerds, but we sure do appreciate his ability to view things from a completely different perspective. Not only does he make us look good, but he keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously.
If we didn’t have Lowell’s finesse, we would be doomed to be just another mundane bookkeeping firm and that’s no fun.
Lowell is known in the office as the “Minister of Propaganda”.
E-mail: admin@bookkeepingmakesmesick.com Phone: (321) 473-7211