About The Owner

As a senior in high school, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  All I knew was that I wanted to do something I
knew I was good at because if you ‘do what you love’ then you’ll always ‘love what you do’.  I was always good at math and insanely
organized, so when I took a bookkeeping course my senior year of high school, a light bulb went off.  

I attended a local business college for their concentrated accounting course and landed my first job three months after graduation
as an Accounts Payable clerk for a business furniture wholesaler.  It was an important stepping stone for what was to come.

Over the course of the next 20 years, I worked as a Full Charge Bookkeeper for several different industries including a mail order
company, residential general contractor and, most recently, an REO outsourcing company specializing in the management of
foreclosed homes throughout the country.

It was in the fall of 2004 that a subcontractor friend of my husband’s who just started his own business called him to say he was
getting a divorce and his soon-to-be-ex mother-in-law (who was doing his bookkeeping!) dropped a box of stuff off at his house,
leaving him to his own devices.  He asked my husband if he knew of anyone who could help.  My husband answered, “My wife
knows Quickbooks – maybe she could help you.”  

Since we just purchased our first home, I decided to help his friend out for a little extra money, working for him once a week after
hours at his home office.  It was then that I realized how much I ‘missed’ bookkeeping.  I say ‘missed’ because the REO company I
was still currently working for, I was doing more property management than bookkeeping.  I began to ‘miss’ what I remembered
loving so much upon discovering bookkeeping as a senior in high school.  And…I discovered something else working for my
husband’s friend – a special niche in the business world.  The ‘one-man-show’ business owner.  Someone who leaves their employer
to venture off on their own.  They know they are good at what they do and want to be their own boss, but they soon realize that
‘doing what they do best’ is only part of what owning a business entails.    Being a sole-owned business owner means you have to
wear all the hats and one of those hats is the bookkeeper’s.   They soon realize that after spending all day running and growing
their business, they’re spending their nights paying bills, invoicing customers, keeping track of job costs, balancing their
checkbook, getting appropriate paperwork from subcontractors, paying employees, figuring out payroll taxes and how to do

quarterly returns…..the list goes on and on.  

I decided to parlay this need into a bookkeeping service which catered to this type of business owner.  This meant availing myself
after hours and weekends, as these types of owners were out all day long, plus I also held down a full time job as well.  Over time,
with industry-specific advertising and some inventive marketing on my part, the calls came in – not just from sole-owned
businesses but small businesses as well who needed a bookkeeper, but not an ‘employee’.  

That was back in mid-2005.  I now have more than a dozen steady clients and growing.  My full time job has now become part time
due to the increase in my bookkeeping business.   I can now offer more flexibility to my clients as to my availability, working on or
off-site and remotely.    Evenings and weekend appointments are still available, but by special request only.  I experience a sense of
fulfillment and accomplishment when serving my clients because I know the services I provide will make running their businesses
a whole lot easier.

In other words - I love what I’m doing because I’m doing what I love!