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.

More importantly...…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.  I offer 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!