I communicate with clarity, act with integrity, and pursue improvement with purpose.
I started CK Accounting Services, LLC to give business owners the kind of financial partner I always believed they deserved: dependable, hands-on, and genuinely invested in their success.
I began my career in for-profit accounting, working in international accounting and controller roles through the 1990s and early 2000s. Since 2002, I've focused my career on nonprofit and small business finance — serving as Controller and Interim CFO for organizations like the Council on International Educational Exchange, Community Health Options, and, most recently, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, where I led the finance team through budgeting, grant compliance, audits, and day-to-day financial operations.
That mix of backgrounds is what I bring to your books: the discipline of corporate accounting, paired with a deep, practical understanding of how nonprofits and small businesses run. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from UMass Dartmouth and a Master's in Business Administration from Endicott College.
Outside of accounting, I've served as a Firefighter and Advanced EMT with the Raymond and Windham Fire Departments for over 20 years, and as a CPR Instructor since 2007— training others to stay calm and act confidently under pressure. That same ability to break down a complex process and teach it clearly is something I bring directly to client work, whether I'm walking a team through a new QuickBooks Online setup or documenting a month-end close process step by step.