Nick Katko: Continuous Improvement in Accounting

Lean Blog Interviews: Real-World Lean Leadership Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond · Oct 14, 2026 · 51m

Accounting teams see problems every day. As my returning guest Nick Katko puts it, they fix them, but they don’t necessarily solve them.

Nick is president and owner of BMA, a CPA, and the author of The Lean CFO and co-author of Practicing Lean Accounting. His new book, independently published, is Creating a Continuous Improvement System in Accounting. It grew out of coaching two accounting teams in Ohio, and it comes with a companion webpage of checklists, assessments, and short training presentations.

We talk about why so many accounting leaders misunderstand continuous improvement, often…