About the Founder

Kell B. Rabern began his career in 1973 after graduating from the University of Oregon. After years with a firm in Seattle, Kell has remained focused on serving family-owned businesses and their owners in the Seattle area. During the COVID-19 pandemic and other developments, Kell decided in early 2021 to form a small firm in Issaquah to continue serving loyal, long-time clients.

Kell has over 49 years of experience in the accounting industry. Throughout the years, he has upheld old-fashioned principles of the profession.

You can rely on us to act in your long-term best interest while also keeping the public interest in mind. We build trust by keeping pace with the fast-changing business, accounting, and tax environment and upholding the principles of objectivity, integrity, independence, and due care. Our objectivity enables us to be better advisors who provide unbiased solutions.

As a CPA firm, we carry out our responsibility to exercise sensitive professional and moral judgments in all our activities. We follow the traditions of the profession to maintain mutual trust with our clients.

We ensure confidentiality, privacy, and security at all times in our communications. This allows us to protect our clients as well as provide services and advice based on highly trustworthy information.

Rabern CPA efficiently uses technology and other processes to deliver information to and from clients securely.

According to Kell, the founder of our CPA firm, the basic principles that improve efficiency are:

Fairness is a business standard that goes beyond the principles of professional conduct. To Rabern CPA, fairness is a result of mutual trust and cooperation.

• Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member of the Washington State Society of CPAs