Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 4, 1 April 1992 — Haʻole wins accountant advocate award [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Haʻole wins accountant advocate award

by Ann L. Moore Janet L. Ha'ole, president of Triple Check Ineome Tax & Accounting Service, has been named the state winner as Accountant

Advocate of the Year for O'ahu by the Small Business Administration. A Native Hawaiian, Ha'ole will be among the awardees at the noon luneheon at the llikai Hotel, Honolulu, on Monday, May 14, as part of national Small Business Week (May 1016).

Patricia Saiki, head of the SBA, will be keynote speaker. Tickets are available at $30 eaeh. Reservations may be made by calling Joyce at the SBA, 541-2973. Triple Check has a special niehe in the market, specializing in assisting small business

owners with sound financial planning and record keeping through all stages of their business. As part of her company's service, Ha'ole developed three small business financial needs package that allows her to accept clients who may have been turned away by other accounting firms. She said, "The packages, called Super Saver,

Time Saver, and The Executive, are flat-rate packages. They help the small business person understand universally accepted and understood data. The packages include business-

builder programs with audio casettes that help improve business, help a person understand how to use financial statements to improve business, and there are sample worksheets." Ha'ole said: "I believe my business ean grow only if my clients are successful so we devotes time to eaeh client to help them take the steps whieh will make them successful."

Toward that objective, Ha'ole hosts monthly seminars for small businesses. The May seminar will be on the general excise tax. "We try always to help

the small business owner understand how information ean be interpreted in different ways and how it ean help build a business." In building her own business, Ha'ole received a expansion loan from the Native Hawaiian Revolving Loan Fund in September 1989 whieh allowed her to upgrade equipment and have additional working capital. With that eapital she was able to hire two additional employ-

ees, both Native Hawaiians, said Gary Bartolome, the NHRLF officer who handled her request. Speaking about Ha'ole's qualifications for the loan, Bartolome said: "Her strengths were her experience and her background. She started as a sole proprietor at home with one typewriter and a computer, transcribing work for court reporters, and she maintained accounts and general ledgers for an auto parts store. In three years she rented her first office and went from there.

"She is very professional in her attitude and in her person. She is serious minded. What she says she will do, she does. She follows up. She is one that you ean, so to speak 'bank' on.' A total professional," he said. Triple Check ineome Tax & Accounting Service is at 1750 Kalakaua Ave., Suite 203, Honolulu. The phone number is 947-6114. In addition to building a business, Ha'ole has done volunteer work with SBA's Women In Business committee, with the Senior Corp of Retired Executives program and other professional groups. She is often called upon as a speaker for civic and professional organizations.

An educator and role model, Ha'ole has taught at Alu Like's entrepreneurial training program and at Kamehameha Schools' Continuing Adult Education program. Ha'ole is a graduate of Kailua High School and Honolulu Business College and, she said, she has taken "many, many other courses. Here at Triple Check, we firmly believe in eontinuing education."

Janet L. Ha'ole