Ronald Kiima, CPA
President Kiima Incorporated
Ronald A. Kiima is a former SEC Assistant Chief Accountant. Mr. Kiima is currently the President of Kiima Incorporated, a private consulting firm specializing in SEC accounting and disclosure issues, SEC registration statements and periodic reports, SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings, corporate governance and risk management (including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), investor relations and communications, due diligence and investigatory procedures, and litigation support and testimony. His firm’s clients include, among others, SEC registrants, IPO candidates, public accounting and law firms, and continuing professional education providers.
Through his firm, Mr. Kiima also serves as a principal technical advisor to numerous investment banking firms, mutual funds and hedge funds on matters of SEC, accounting and financial reporting compliance.
Prior to founding Kiima Incorporated, Mr. Kiima served in a number of increasingly responsible positions with the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance in Washington D.C., his last five years there as an Assistant Chief Accountant. During his eight-year tenure with the SEC, he had oversight responsibility for a number of industry sectors including, among others, high technologies, retailing, miscellaneous services, manufacturing, banking and insurance, metals and mining, healthcare and real estate.
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| 1997 - 1998 | Manager Financial Compliance, Reporting and Speci Coldwater Creek, Inc. |
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| 1997 - 1997 | President Kiima Incorporated |
| 1997 - present | President Kiima Incorporated |
| 1988 - 1990 | Shareholder/Partner Jones & Associates |
| 1987 - 1997 | Assistant Chief Accountant U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 1985 - 1987 | Accountant/Auditor Ernst & Whinney LLP (Ernst & Young LLP predecessor) |
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Few other disclosures give as much visibility into the integrity of a company’s reported results like the SEC’s Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts. Unfortunately, despite such schedule being required of most public companies, few companies seemingly fully comply. The absence of otherwise...
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