The words “easy, interesting and fun” probably don’t come to mind if you’re a business owner thinking about your accounting needs. But if you’re a client of Tanya Luken CPA PC, you understand that the firm’s approach to accounting is anything but plodding or ho-hum.
Not your typical accounting firm
Certified public accountant and firm founder and owner Tanya Luken is an Omaha local who loves to free business owners from data entry drudgery and old-school recordkeeping methods. She also brings a sense of humor to work. Her motto: “We’re fun accountants for fun people.”
“Most people who start businesses don’t set out to be accountants and they shouldn’t have to,” Luken said.
A graduate of Omaha Central High School and the University of Nebraska Omaha, Luken is serious about finding creative solutions for accounting issues. “We have clients from across all business sectors,” she said. “We can often recommend a solution that works in one industry and that applies in another.”
Whatever keeps you up at night — cash flow, expense tracking, payroll, bills, inventory or another accounting challenge — Luken and her team of experts will listen, get to the bottom of it and help you embrace technology to make your life easier. “We explain complicated accounting situations to people in a way they can understand,” she said.
Real-time data
No business needs a clunky accounting system, Luken said. Her firm helps businesses with efficient, streamlined accounting software that lets clients see their cash flow in real time. For businesses aiming to expand, Luken and her team guide clients in establishing key performance indicators to target and achieve growth.
Awesome accountants, happy clients
Client Vince Kent said working with Luken’s firm was “the best decision I ever made in my life.” He founded cloudIT, a managed service provider, and owns several other businesses.
In start-up mode, Kent did all the accounting by himself. “As the business grew, I needed to bring someone in or hire a firm,” he said. He decided to have Luken’s firm take over the accounting role in 2015.
He attributes his company’s steady growth directly to working with Luken’s firm. “My books were in such good shape that I could get the capital I needed. My revenue doubled every year for the next five years and I went from zero to 100 employees.”
Here to help you succeed
“Tanya takes a ‘How can I help you?’ approach,” Kent said. “She offers customized solutions and makes sure our business is taken care of.” He relies on Luken’s firm for support with controller-type responsibilities, like helping to start another limited liability corporation and completing required paperwork for the state, he said. This can-do, helpful attitude from Luken and her staff differs sharply from Kent’s experience with a prior firm that met any request by telling him it was out of scope, he said.
Luken is “somebody you can trust,” Kent said. “She says what she means and brings the values of honesty and sincerity to everything she does. That’s so important in this kind of relationship when someone has all your confidential financial information. With Tanya, you also know she has your best interests in mind.”
For more information, please visit luken.cpa.
