Harvey has more than 40 years of public accounting experience and specializes in providing tax, accounting and business consulting services to clients in the real estate and high net worth areas. Harvey’s clients include land owners and developers, residential and commercial builders, property managers, investors, commercial and residential building owners, architectural firms, general contractors and construction companies.

He works with high net worth clients and closely-held businesses, and specializes in estate planning, charitable giving, and family financial issues. He has developed a new way to approach our profession titled “Therapeutic Accounting®,” a holistic approach which is also the basis of a book he authored.

Harvey oversees a wide range of accounting services, including entity selection and structuring, negotiating and structuring acquisitions and dispositions, pre-acquisition due diligence, property repositioning strategies, succession planning, and tax-free exchanges. But as a Therapeutic Accountant he often addresses issues beyond the tax code and deep inside his clients’ personal life, which is why he has such a devoted base of long-time clients.

Harvey holds a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Northridge and is a graduate of Leadership Los Angeles. Harvey also received an honorary doctor of humane letters from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 2016. Harvey continues to support his alma mater through philanthropic efforts.

Harvey established the Harvey and Harriet Bookstein Chair in Taxation within the California State University, Northridge, College of Business and Economics. This endowment also funds the Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation (Master in Taxation program).

In September of 2016 Harvey and his wife, Harriet Bookstein, presented CSUN with a gift to support the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which offers low-income families assistance with tax-preparation. The gift was also used to establish the Bookstein Distinguished Chair in Real Estate Endowment in the Real Estate program and to form the Bookstein Leadership Endowment (Master’s in Real Estate).