I lead AR, AP, treasury, month-end close, and financial statement prep functions while providing strategic audit, budget, compliance, financial, operational, risk management, and policy support to our senior leadership.

I’m a copywriter, editor, and native Midwesterner (est. 1981) from the Quad Cities region of the Mississippi River Valley. Since 2003, I’ve helped people like you amplify words and connect missions to markets. If you need copywriting or editing services, good news: I can help. To learn more, visit my business site at www.sethkco.com, email me at skabala@sethkco.com, or message me through LinkedIn. In addition to custom copywriting and editing services, I offer the following pre-scoped projects:—About Us Stories —Case Studies —Full Website Copywriting —Single-Page Website Copywriting —Storyboarding —Voiceover Scripts —Editorial Direction —Strategic Content Planning Got questions about copywriting or editing? Email me at skabala@sethkco.com to schedule a free 30-minute consultation. Looking forward to working with you. Seth

I write crime and literary novels, short stories, journalism, essays, satire, and jokes.

Strategically, I manage Pixouls' SEO and SEM platforms and postures, and I do the same for our clients and prospects, developing digital content calendars, advertising campaigns, and sales funnels. Tactically, I shepherd the production, distribution, and deployment of creative to meet branding and sales goals. If it involves words, complementary media, and the use of cutting-edge tools like AI to tell stories, build client relationships, and solve marketing problems, it's in my wheelhouse. If this note resonates with you, message me today. Or, better yet, right now! I'd love to connect with you, chat about your needs, and improve your day. Seth

I use modern tools (including SEO, SEM, and AI) to build client value through storytelling.

Led the finance, accounting, and budget functions for the Division of School Finance and Support Services.

The mission of The Family Farce is to entertain through the production and distribution of snarky, irreverent, dark family-themed humor content.We produce and distribute said content from writers, stand-up comics, visual artists, and musicians in the following areas: Words, essays, interviews, fiction, columns; Music, parodies and original parental-advisory-esque works; Video, shorts, interviews, original stand-up; Art, comic strips, info graphics, photos, illustrations.We believe in the real language of life, not in censorship.We believe that despite efforts to be a superhero, the cat still runs on the roof, and the ladder still falls away from the roof when you're trying to get the stupid cat.Meaning?Family is a farce--a big, comedic, sometimes tragic production, over which we have little to no control, but from which we can mine humor, especially snarky, irreverent humor, which we can use to make the run of the production more fun.

Led the budget, liens, accounting, and finance functions for the Revenue Division.

Provided data-driven and data-informed management, editorial, financial, revenue, business process, information system team lead, federal program administration, tax policy, and analytical advice, findings, and recommendations to City management.

Managed and administered compliance with the Revenue Division's FTI program, interfacing, at a functional level, with the IRS as the Division's Liaison & Disclosure Officer.

Audited utility companies and telecommunications providers for compliance with city tax code provisions and terms of franchise agreements.

Founding member and President, specializing in transaction tax consulting. MISSION STATEMENTCore knowledge. Real results.We put the right people in place for every engagement to ensure you, our client, receives the best results for every tax, accounting, software, or consulting project. Receives real results. What are real results?Tax recovery of overpayments; future tax savings and non-compliance risk mitigation through effective tax planning; operational accounting metric improvement, access to real-time information for targeted decision making; streamlining operations with innovative software products; experience-driven consulting knowledge, conveyed from credentialed experts, to increase your business’ profitability.Core knowledge. Real results.Cordim.

Managed all aspects of the indirect tax consulting practice for IA and IL businesses. Capabilities: Reverse Audits--We reviewed purchase records, identifying those that qualified for available sales and use tax exemptions, and recovered those taxes from the states. Audit Defense--We represented clients in formal transaction tax matters of government inquiry, making sure the law was applied to their maximum benefit, minimizing non-compliance exposure.Multi-State Planning--We reviewed clients' business processes and determined the most effective and efficient ways to achieve transaction tax compliance.

Responsibilities for multiple operating companies included: compiling monthly sales and purchases data, preparing sales and use tax monthly journal entries, maintaining valid exemption certificates, updating customer taxability status ; collecting personal and real-property tax assessments and bills, preparing monthly journal entries, forecasting accrual entries, filing returns, collaborating with property tax consultants and jurisdictional authorities to contest bills, paying bills; researching multi-state sales and use tax issues, including transaction tax contract ramifications, marketing program policies, drop-shipment exposure analysis, nexus exposure analysis, self-reporting exposure analysis ; serving as transaction tax expert for Business Systems Transformation project (BST), i.e., HNI's conversion from legacy ERP to Oracle; serving as liaison for tax department on software acquisition project that sought to integrate an automated enterprise-level transaction tax software system with Oracle; filing sales and use tax refund claims; managing all aspects of transaction tax state audits, including auditor communication, audit scope negotiation, audit liability reasonableness, records availability and acquisition; collaborating with administrative staff to maintain all company licenses and permits, including communication with domestic and internationally-based personnel.

Performed sales, use, and excise tax audits on all types of business throughout Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota.

Covered the Silvis City Council beat and wrote news, profile, review, and community interest pieces.