OWNER & LEAD CPA

Over 40 years ago, Brenda and Rob Sherwood first started Sherwood & Co, PS. out of their tiny home office in Centralia, WA. Brenda has always had a way with creating a personalized, warm and welcoming environment as well as a highly professional experience for her clients. Now with a staff of 8 and a large, welcoming office in the heart of west Olympia, Brenda continues to be the lead CPA, offering high quality tax prep and accounting services to over 400 local and nationwide clients.

For complex accounting, financial, or tax preparation questions, you’ll either talk directly to Brenda or Kelly who have a combined sixty years worth of complex tax preparation and accounting experience.

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Kyrsten has assisted her mother-in-law, Brenda with streamlining and modernizing Sherwood & Co, PS., helping us to create an online presence, online client portal with user-friendly forms and document management, a more efficient tax preparation workflow process and a higher-touch client experience. Her enthusiasm for streamlining systems and user experience is helping to make Sherwood & Co, PS.’s personalized tax services more accessible to clients state- and nationwide.

For new clients, billing, and project management questions, you’ll talk directly to Kyrsten, who will assist you with keeping you up-to-date on your tax return progress, as well as offer you any general help you may need throughout the year.

LEAD ACCOUNTANT - FINANCIALS & BUSINESS RETURNS

Since the early 2000s, Kelly has worked as everything from a teenage mail runner to a financial consultant for million dollar businesses at Sherwood & Co, PS. Kelly’s deeply rooted understanding of tax preparation and University of Washington law degree with a specialization in contract and tax law has assisted him in intimately understanding how businesses of all sizes can best benefit from quality tax planning and advanced, detail-oriented accounting services.

For complex accounting, financial, or tax preparation questions, you’ll either talk directly to Brenda or Kelly who have a combined 60 years of complex tax preparation, tax law, and accounting experience.

ACCOUNTANT - BUSINESS RETURNS

Stathis has been with Sherwood & Co, PS since January of 2023, originally hired as our part-time technical support specialist and quickly being promoted to a business tax return accountant, after realizing his excellent research skills and affinity for learning how complex systems work. Over the years, he has become a highly capable business accountant and is who completes the majority of our clients’ corporate and partnership tax returns, along with Kelly’s oversight. His quick wit, dry sense of humor, attention to detail, resourcefulness, flexibility, reliability, and intentionality has made him an incredible asset to the team.

Typically more active behind the scenes, you may occasionally chat with Stathis, if he’s requesting your elusive business loan documents.

ACCOUNTANT - INDIVIDUAL RETURNS

Ada joined the Sherwood & Co, PS team in December 2024. She is an incredibly intelligent, quick-witted, detail-oriented, charismatic, fast-learner, and has been a delightful addition to the team. If ever you have the opportunity to ask her for a fun fact about something marine biology-related, we highly suggest you take that opportunity to do so. Ada specializes in individual tax returns and is tasked with researching new tax laws and regulations, aligning with her natural sense of curiosity and interest in solving complex puzzles.

Typically more active behind the scenes, you may occasionally find yourself chatting with Ada if she requests any tax documentation to finalize your individual tax return.

ACCOUNTANT - BOOKKEEPING SERVICES

Benjamin joined the Sherwood & Co, PS team in December 2024. With over 10 years of experience in customer service, Benjamin is a dedicated, enthusiastic, ambitious, and highly detailed-oriented team member. He has been an wonderful addition to the team, and his payroll clients have nothing but glowing reviews for him. Benjamin works directly with our payroll and bookkeeping clients to complete their monthly, quarterly, and annual department of revenue reports, federal and state tax deposits and filings, and payroll services.

If you utilize our payroll, bookkeeping, or DOR services, you’ll talk directly to Benjamin.

RECORDS SPECIALIST

Tia joined the Sherwood & Co, PS team in December 2024 after acing our technical test, demonstrating her incredible attention to detail and demonstrating her natural ability to see bigger picture concepts with minimal context. She was an obvious shoe-in for our Records Specialist position where she reviews all tax documents brought in by our clients to ensure they’re completed thoroughly, ensuring nothing is missed or overlooked. She’s a proactive, dedicated, precise, diligent, and creative person and her dry and witty sense of humor have made her an asset to the team.

If you have questions about your tax documents or need copies of your past years’ tax returns, you’ll get to know Aly and Tia who will assist you with any of your administrative and document preparation needs.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Aly joined the Sherwood & Co, PS team in December 2024 and is often the first person you see when walking into the office. From the moment we met Aly, we noticed her radiant charm, enthusiasm, and bubbly personality, and she has become not only a welcoming presence for our clients, but an asset to the team, with her ability and eagerness to take on various tasks with minimal direction, and her highly detailed documentation skills. She has grown to become a true Jane of all Trades at Sherwood & Co, PS, and we will miss her dearly when she moves out of state in 2027.

If you have questions about your tax documents or need copies of your past years’ tax returns, you’ll get to know Aly and Tia who will assist you with any of your administrative and document preparation needs.