Who Are We
Robert A. Owens - President and Owner
robert@raocpa.com
| Bob Owens was born and raised in Southern California. He
earned his Bachelors degree from Loma Linda University in 1978. His
first public accounting job was with a regional firm based in Beverly
Hills, California, where he received his training in the audit
department. Most of the clients were garment manufacturers, and it was
in this environment that he developed his great audit instincts.
Several years later he went to work as the Controller of a partnership
syndication firm that developed and operated over 200 separate entities
involved in Agriculture, Commercial Recreation, and Entertainment. In
1987 he started his own public accounting firm, which specializes in
financial statement audits and business planning.
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He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
He also is an active member of the statewide committee on Accounting
Principles & Auditing Standards of the California Society of
Certified Public Accountants.
His hobbies are golf, scuba diving, and snow skiing.
John Kraul - Marketing Director and Audit Manager
john@raocpa.com
| John Kraul was born in Sacramento in 1954. He
earned his bachelors degree from Seattle University in 1977. For the
next 11 years he tried his hand in various ventures including an
attempt at professional golf and owning his own landscape company. In
addition, he worked in private industry as an accountant. He has been
an auditor with Robert Owens, C.P.A., since 1988, earning his C.P.A.
certificate in 1990. The width of experience prior to public accounting
played a part in giving him his personable demeanor. He has been well
liked wherever he's been. Combined with the depth of experience he has
gained as an auditor, he is a uniquely qualified and approachable audit
manager. |
John is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
His hobbies include golf, tennis, his two cats, and just about anything
having to do with the enjoyment of nature.
Allen Lee - Operations Director and Audit Manager
allen@raocpa.com
| Allen Lee was born and raised within five miles of Disneyland (also the place of his first job ever). He earned his Bachelors degree from UCLA in 1989. His first public accounting job was in the downtown Los Angeles office of a national firm, where he received extensive training at both national headquarters and regional sites. Most of the clients he worked on were financial institutions, with a few retail and manufacturing clients.
In 1990, Allen began working at Robert A. Owens, CPA A PAC. He has ten years of experience in both the audit and taxes of homeowners associations. Over the years, he has developed the audit program and training manual for the audits of these associations. He is the supervisor of the audit for a consulting firm with over $10 million of revenue. He has also been in-charge of the fieldwork for numerous escrow company audits. |
On a sabbatical to his ancestral home in Japan, he immersed himself in the Zen culture. With the help of his meditation instructor/wife, he hopes to become the Phil Jackson of the AICPA.
He is the father of three and is attempting to form a family golf foursome. Their combined handicap still reaches far into triple digits.
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