Our Professional Team
Melanie Smart, CPA
Every day is like a series of debits and credits for Melanie Smart, which she strives to organize and sum up in neat rows in her mind (and for her clients). Her love of numbers doesn’t stop at organizing information; she also loves to collect it and apply what she finds to her work at Rudler, PSC.
Melanie finds joy in learning about updates to taxes and auditing. She pairs that with her love of data collection to help her clients to ensure they are up-to-date on all rules and regulations and making the right decisions for them and their businesses.
In her role as shareholder, Melanie works with closely-held and family-owned businesses in both tax and auditing capacities.
Working closely with her clients, she looks for opportunities that help their internal accounting offices maintain efficiency and accuracy. She also helps identify opportunities for tax savings.
Outside of Rudler, Melanie is an active member of her community. She is a finance committee member at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in Florence.
When she’s not serving her clients, Melanie enjoys spending time with her husband, three beautiful, intelligent daughters and two standard poodles. She follows in the footsteps of her father as an avid cyclist. In fact, every May, her family participates in a 210-mile two day bike ride. She also leverages her four years of college volleyball experience to coach which is currently the St. Paul girls 8th grad volleyball team.
Area of Concentration
- Auditing
- Tax Services
- Client Advisory Services
Industry Experience
- Professional
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Homeowner's Associations
Designations
- Certified Public Accountant – Kentucky
Education
- Thomas More College
Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Magna Cum Laude
Memberships
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
- Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants (KYCPA)
Community Involvement
- Member, Referrals R Us Chapter of BNI
- Finance Committee Member, St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church