About Us
Experienced professionals helping you manage your business finances. We turn chaos into clarity.
We believe that all business owners must understand the basics of their financial statements to be able to make sound business decisions. We recognize it can be daunting, but we have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years and would love to help you too.
Kathleen Fernan
Kathleen has been working in accounting since the ’70s! While working for Angeles Corporation, she was in charge of over 75 sets of books under year-round audit. Since then she’s worked for a range of businesses, including a software developer and a wholesale tree grower. Kathleen founded KNKBS with her sister Kerry in 1991, and has been helping small and mid-sized businesses with technical and accounting challenges ever since.
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Kerry Whitmire
Kerry has been providing CFO-for-hire and consulting services to small and mid-sized businesses. She can immediately evaluate any set of accounting records and determine how to get a business on the right track – and she can make the best out of a mess.
Meet the Team
Kitty Morse, CPA
Kitty’s experience ranges from performing financial audits while at Ernst & Young, to SEC reporting at The Walt Disney Company.
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She went on to spend 20+ years as CFO of a small family-owned manufacturing business. Kitty brings a broad understanding of management needs, compassion for the bookkeeper’s responsibilities, and a deep appreciation for accuracy to her work as a conversion and clean-up specialist.
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Julia Morse
As our Lead Bookkeeper, Julia works directly with our small and mid-size business clients on setups, cleanups, conversions and training.
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As well as coordinating and supporting our team of in-house bookkeepers. Her favorite part of the job is when she encounters a problem she’s never seen before. Julia works with clients on all the accounting platforms KNK serves: Zoho Books, QuickBooks Desktop, and QuickBooks Online. When not fixing tricky reconciliations or setting up conversions, Julia loves gardening, sewing, and working on her deadlift.
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Danielle Barkume
Danielle joins KNKBS as a part-time bookkeeper with 15 years of QuickBooks Desktop experience running
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her family-owned, manufacturing small business. She learned the accounting basics from the many hours shadowing her mother in their business, and looks forward to continued learning and growth with KNKBS. When not working, Danielle enjoys time with her 3 boys and 4 dogs.
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Dusty Bisla
Dusty brings to KNKBS a broad range of experience. As operations manager and bookkeeper for her own music consulting business.
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She has been working with QuickBooks desktop for 12 years. With a degree in Applied Economics from London University, she worked in banking for 15 years as a commercial loan documentation specialist. In her spare time, Dusty regularly attends the gym and loves to travel with family and experience other cultures.
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Ileana Tomich
Ileana has worked across a variety of fields and has a primary background in customer service, operations, and real estate accounting.
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In her current role with KNKBS, she acts as a Quickbooks Online Bookkeeper. She lives in Seattle and enjoys creating art, cooking, and snuggling her cat, Bento.
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Arlene Karma
Our accounting sleuth! Arlene has been with KNKBS since 1997, working full time keeping clients’ books squeaky clean. She prides herself on balancing every account and
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is not afraid to take on a troubled set of books. Arlene specializes in contractors and job costing; she’s also a payroll expert. Arlene works remotely from her Texas office, and when she’s not balancing the books, she’s a professional barrel racer — Check out one of her rides here!
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Mike Nalick
Mike is a local small business owner who recently (and happily!) joined the KNKBS team to assist with bookkeeping and special projects.
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He brings more than 25 years’ experience with QuickBooks and has provided bookkeeping services to a variety of concerns, from physicians’ offices and yoga studios to manufacturing and construction companies. When not at the desk, he’s likely in the ocean or the mountains. Also, his dogs seem to love walking him.
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Michele Haisman
Michele has worked for KNKBS for over 20 years as a part-time bookkeeper, supporting multiple companies with their financial record-keeping.
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She loves gardening, spending time with her 3 grown kids, and has been a foster mom to countless kittens.
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Penny Todd
Penny has worked for KNKBS for over 20 years as a specialized paralegal. She maintains all the compliance for many corporate entities.
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She enjoys the Big Bear area, skiing and horses.
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Carina Martinez
Carina is a bookkeeper located in Southern California and is a wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. She studied accounting in college and quickly began working for multiple organizations on finance teams.
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In 2013 Carina took a hiatus from her career to begin a family, then joined KNKBS in 2019 to provide support including bookkeeping, payroll, and reconciliation for multiple businesses. She and her family have recently found a passion for traveling and camping across Southern California.
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Karen Robertson
Karen recently joined KNKBS as bookkeeper, bringing with her the organizational, analytical and customer service skills that were important in her previous career as a consulting engineer.
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She is grateful to get to use these same skills daily as the mother of two teenagers and two needy cats, wife to Dave and as an active volunteer in multiple charitable organizations. Karen and her family live in Columbus, Ohio.
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Reba Crise
Reba is a part-time bookkeeper with 13 years experience in the construction industry, performing all aspects of office management and bookkeeping. She specializes in QuickBooks
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Enterprise and Advanced Payroll. When not working Reba loves spending time with her dogs, gardening, cooking and learning the art of archery.
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Let Us Help:
Dear Friend,
It’s one thing to manage a business; it’s quite another to grow it.
If you’re reading this, you know what I’m talking about.
It seems like the books are being handled properly. It seems like payroll is (mostly?) under control. It seems like the IRS is okay with how we’re handling our taxes. It seems like the financial reporting is in place.
We’re flush … most of the time. But we’re certainly not growing. We’re not prospering.
What are we missing?
This is a common story that we hear when we first start talking to business owners. The boxes are checked; the people are in place … but the fact is, they’re not quite sure how to optimize the financials for performance and growth.
Our specialty is in reading between the lines of the systems, the softwares, and the financial statements to see the true financial story being told … even when the reports all “seem” okay (for now).
The fact is that the Federal Government would love to have more of your business’s hard-earned money in their accounts. Your employees probably don’t care about cost control as much as they should. Your sales team might need to focus their efforts in a new direction.
But you don’t have to hand more dollars over to the government than they require just because you don’t know their rules as well as they do. You don’t have to live in a constant state of anxiety over the state of your books. The future of your business doesn’t have to be a question mark.
Let’s get a real-time reading on your business’s financial health with our bookkeeping services. Answer a few questions below to get started.
Click the button above to take your first step, and we’ll be in touch soon to follow up about your specific needs.
And of course, feel free to poke around our site and discover why we’ve been called “The Most Trusted in the Los Angeles County Area.”
Talk again soon,
Kathleen Fernan
PS — When you fill out the form, we’ll also add you to our weekly email series on “Real World” Strategy for small business owners. Our readers enthusiastically forward these to their colleagues and peers all the time because they’re not your standard “bookkeeping tips.”
PPS — Already want to come in? I don’t blame you … many people are fed up with trying to manage their books and financials on their own. Our schedule is very full … but if you call us at 626-509-6159 or Email Us, we’ll give you two options for coming in right away. We will NOT make dealing with a business advisor as painful as dealing with your books has already been!
