"Clients call me when they sense they are losing control when their business is consuming them instead of them running their business. I have found that the solutions to the problems usually rest within the management. I help them work through the tough stuff and take control again."

- Kep Kepner

Kep is a CPA with a full-service accounting practice in Dallas. That is just part of it! Kep came to the accounting profession in an unusual way. He has a background in sales and marketing. Kep sold computers services and computer hardware for IBM's Service Bureau Corporation and other hardware and software manufacturers.

With his background in marketing, Kep joined a regional CPA firm, Alford Meroney & Company. He rose to partner in charge of their Management Consulting Practice. In this role, he served a wide range of small business clients in areas such as systems, marketing, business organization, and mergers and acquisitions. In 1980 Alford Meroney & Company merged into Arthur Young, and Kep became an Arthur Young Management Consulting Partner.

In 1985 Kep cashed in his corner office on the 43rd floor and raised venture capital to acquire a company that had a new technology for building bank buildings. Cawthon Building Systems Inc. crashed along with most of the financial markets in the late 1980s. Like most entrepreneurs Kep thought of the Cawthon demise as a "learning experience." Kep opened his CPA practice in 1987 in his spare bedroom. That practice has grown and now includes another CPA and three other employees.

What Kep has learned is the key factor that seems to separate the high achieving business owners and entrepreneurs from the also-rans. He calls this, "Having an Out of Business Experience." Kep imparts this wisdom to his clients through financial analysis and coaching. So here is a CPA with high quality technical accounting and tax skills with a bonus:

• Marketing - In the field, over the internet, real world marketing
• Management - Experience running a company with three million in sales, similar to yours Out of the ivory tower, into the real world.
• Courage - Willing to tell you the problems facing your company ,even if it is YOU!!

On the personal side, Kep has two grown sons Peter and Kyle…who have escaped his entrepreneurial efforts without too many scars. Kep approaches life in a different way too….climbing Aconcogua, swimming in the Arctic Ocean, visiting the Baltic, quite different from a trip to Cancun of Disney World.