Ms. Keefer is the managing partner of the firm, Serl & Keefer, CPAs, concentrating her efforts in small business accounting and taxation services as well as complex individual income tax returns and estate tax planning.  The firm also provides bookkeeping services and performs reviews and compilations of financial statements and general business consulting.  She has extensive experience working with construction companies and professional corporations and assists clients with their in-house accounting systems including training of staff.  Shelby also is very knowledgeable in the field of taxation and provides planning as well as compliance work for her business clients and individuals.  

Ms. Keefer has been a resident of Las Vegas since 1988 when she joined the national accounting firm of Laventhol and Horwath.  She left public accounting for a short period to become the controller of a group of construction corporations before starting her own public accounting firm in 1991 which later became part of Serl & Keefer.

Ms. Keefer received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota in Business Administration – Accounting. 

Shelby has served on many non-profit boards of directors.  She is the Vice-Chair of Finance for the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and its Foundation and is the Treasurer of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada.  She was a member of the board of directors and is a past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners – Southern Nevada Chapter from 1991 to 2003.    Shelby is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Nevada Society of Certified Public Accountants.