Mike Anderson of CollisionAdvice announced the addition of CPA Kirstin Klabunde to his staff of business consultants.
Klabunde offers shop financial expertise that will enable CollisionAdvice to add to the financial consulting services it offers to shop owners interested in clear and accurate financial information they can use to gauge and improve their business performance.
Like this article? Sign up to receive our weekly news blasts here.Klabunde brings experience in banking and small business accounting to the new position. A summa cum laude graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University (where she was a two-time first team Academic All-American volleyball player), Klabunde worked as a CPA and eventually gained collision repair industry experience overseeing the finances of a large collision repair business in the Chicago area.
“It was through her work with that shop that I discovered the skills and strengths Kirstin has in helping shop owners make sense of their financial tools,” Anderson said. “Over about three years, I put her in touch with other shops that she consulted with to improve their profit-and-loss statements and other financial records that really made a difference for their businesses. That’s why I was pleased to have Kirstin join my team full-time.”
Klabunde is an Accredited Automotive Manager through the Automotive Management Institute, and a Quickbooks Pro Advisor.
She is available for hourly or monthly dial-in consulting services or onsite consulting for such services as:
- set-up or clean-up of a chart of accounts;
- review of account mapping from management systems to accounting systems;
- analytical review of current profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets to identify areas for improvement;
- training of bookkeeping staff in accounting for collision repair facilities including adjustments for work-in-process; and,
- working with management to develop key performance indicators to monitor the financial health of the company.
She can be reached via the collisionadvice.com website or by email directly at Kirstin@coll isionadvice.com.
CollisionAdvice is a training and consulting firm founded in 2010 by Mike Anderson, following the sale of the two-shop collision repair business he operated in Alexandria, Va., for more than 20 years. Anderson offers dozens of workshops and seminars throughout the country each year, provides business and shop operational consulting services for individual shops, and is a facilitator for DuPont Performance Services’ Business Council 20-groups.
For more information visit www.collisionadvice.com.
