Pick up your copy of the Dictionary of Professional Stereotypes. In looking under “Accountants,” you will most surely not find a picture of Ms. Krehbiel. Kasi counteracts any old accounting stereotype. With her wonderful sense of humor, and her active participation and understanding of SPPG projects, Kasi communicates with comfort and ease with all SPPG clients, vendors, and staff.
Kasi was born in Iowa and spent her wonderbread years in Ankeny, Iowa. She graduated from Upper Iowa University with a BS in Accounting and now lives in Bondurant.
Kasi earned her accounting stripes through school, experience, and hard work. After her first job at Woolworth’s and then as a teenager fitting shoes, Kasi worked in bookkeeping and accounting at smaller companies and later at larger corporations, including the Lazy M, printing and paper companies, and EMC. Prior to coming to SPPG in 2005, Kasi was a staff accountant at the Jacobson Companies, where she handled the financials for several warehouses companies.
It isn’t that she loves numbers so much. In fact she says she “hates math,” but, instead, delights in “solving the puzzle.” That means making the numbers fit together and the projects’ budgets work. At SPPG, Kasi has the day-to-day responsibility for tracking all financial transactions for every project and affiliate organization, as well as all of SPPG’s internal financials. In the past three years she has led the transition to a more complex and complete accounting software.
Certainly, no stereotype of accountants or any other person or professional is fair. And like most accountants, she is consistently precise in how she works. But to watch Kasi be an active member of the project teams, glide around the office taking care of business, and making sure all the numbers add up and the puzzle is complete, she certainly breaks the mold.
