Nick Katko joined BMA in 2002 as a senior consultant. Prior to joining BMA, Nick was CFO for various manufacturing companies that implemented lean practices and has also worked in public accounting. As a CFO, Nick has led the companies in the implementation of lean accounting practices such as performance measurements, value stream costing, lean decision making and the elimination traditional standard cost systems. As a senior consultant with BMA, Nick uses this experience to assist clients in lean accounting implementation by working closely with clients resolve the real-world issues they face in implementation. These issues include removing traditional cost-based performance measurement systems in favor of lean performance measurement systems, migrating from a traditional income statement to a value stream costing income statement, creating a transaction elimination maturity path and working with management to create new business decision making models based on lean accounting practices.

Nick is a Certified Public Accounting and has a BS in Accounting and MBA in Finance, both from the University of Kentucky.